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Main Goal – To fund and construct a state of the art 250-meter Velodrome in Goleta on property under the control of the Wynmark Company. The property is directly behind the Home Depot store off of Stork Road and abuts Girsh Park. This venue would not only provide the area with it’s only Olympic style bicycle track racing and training facility, but could eventually include office and a small meeting space, a bike shop, bike lockers, a small gym, and showers. The facility would be multi-use, with limited facilities for in line skating, and remote control cars. The infield would also be used to offer off street bicycle education courses for the areas youth.
Located here, the Velodrome could be used as a commuter hub, perhaps housing a Goleta Bike Station, in addition the venue could be used to host farmers markets, swap meets, and other community events.
As this above layout shows our location is just north of the proposed ice rink and the Santa Barbara County Fire Station off Storke Road. This property must house a recreational use as per the issued Santa Barbara County building permit of the Camino Real Marketplace. How cool would it be to race in a Lemon Festival Scratch Race or Miss and Out? Support – The SB Bicycle Coalition has stepped up to support the effort. This Has grown over the last 5 years. The CCVM has been operating as part of the Santa Barbara Bicycle Club, which is a 501C3 nonprofit. This will soon be changing as the process of creating the Non-Profit Central Coast Velodrome Association is almost complete. On line Petition: Click here to add your name to the support list. In the first 2 days of this effort there were over 200 signatures! Add yours please. As of this update there are over 1300 signatures, is yours one of them? Join our online discussion on Topica.com at sbvelo@topica.com by sending an email to SBVELO-subscribe@topica.com Costs – Concrete would cost between 1.2 and 2 Million dollars. This option is often considered the best choice. However there are some long-term concerns. Things like resurfacing which can cost hundreds of thousands of dollars, and what if ten years down the road we are asked to vacated the property, a concrete track would need to be demolished, there is no way to relocated it. Building a wooden track would cost anywhere from $400,000 to $1,000,000. We have been in contact with several of the world’s premiere Velodrome designers to comprise these numbers. The wooden version represents the best value to the Central Coast Velodrome Association in the long run. This is because of several reasons: ü The Central Coast Velodrome would be only the fourth wooden track in the US, and would give our areas youth and up and coming track racers a better training track that would familiarize them with the world class tracks that are all made of wood. ü Because the facility would be 80% made of weather treated wood it would benefit from some sort of roof or awning. This would cover the entire circumference of the track as well as any venue seating and would allow for better and less obtrusive lighting and pa system. The infield would most likely be exposed to the elements. NOTE: The Velodrome will not be “inside” it will only be covered in the sense that the sun and rain would be denied access to the racing surface.
Above are diagrams from the remodeling effort of the Herne Hill Velodrome in the UK. This is the idea that we want to promote here at the Central Coast Velodrome a cantilevered covering that would basically be a steel support system with a tent like covering. ü Because in essence we are talking about designing a wooden truss system, anchored to three rows of cement foundations, supporting a plywood surface (picture an upside down roof), IT COULD BE MOVED TO ANOTHER LOCATION SOMEDAY!
ü Because it would be a wooden track the CCVA could benefit from some of the worlds elite track stars to “book track time” at our facility when in LA to compete at the ADT Event Center or here training with their trade teams. ü Because it is wood the cost of resurfacing is only tens of thousands compared to hundreds of thousands.
Chihuahua, Mexico. If this quality of a wooden plywood track can be
built in
Mexico,
Funding – State and Federal Recreational Construction Grants and local fund raising. One of the newest Velodrome in Detroit (http://www.lmb.org/velo/) was realized because of hundreds small donations from the public. Plus the due diligence of the people who carried the dream of building the Mike Walden Memorial Velodrome. Eventually the effort raised over $500,000, the majority which came from members of over 30 bicycle clubs. These clubs were not only "Racing Clubs" they were just bicycle clubs and their members saw how building this facility for the community would introduce more people to not only bicycle racing but to the activity itself, bicycling. This is about getting more people on bicycles. Click here to make a donation to the Central Coast Velodrome Movement. Construction would be mostly volunteers, people who are cyclists that have the nessacary experience. This is how it is done in other places, of course we need a general contractor to oversee the construction process, and we have that person and his company already lined up. All we need is money. Short-term Goals – To build a working architectural model, comprise a brochure, to generate as many signatures as possible on the online support petition, secure additional board members, continually update the website. History - In the late eighties and into the early nineties there was an attempt lead by Olympian Rory O'Rielly to build a Velodrome in a proposed county park in the Elwood area. After years of letter writing, workshops, and networking old school like, this effort did get a "Sports Track" placed on the master plan of the Santa Barbara Shores County Park. But it was all for not, because the park plan was shelved while one environmental impact report after another were completed. Finally in 2000 the County Board of Supervisors voted to scrap the original plan. With the forming of the new City of Goleta in 2002 that whole idea of an Elwood park had limited life left in it. If a park ever does get built there, it will most likely not include a Velodrome because nothing will be built except perhaps a softball field or two, most of the park will be trails and open space. Do you have talents that this movement could benefit from? Please join us as a board member. You are more than welcome. CCVM Board Members Are:
Currently there are 19 operating Velodromes in
the
United States.
There is even a portable track!
www.velodrome.com ADT EVENT CENTER – USA’s only wooden indoor Velodrome in Carson, CA
The Superdrome – Frisco, TX Alpenrose Velodrome in Portland, OR. Marymoor Velodrome – Redmond, WA Northern California Velodrome Association – San Jose, CA Mike Walden Velodrome - Detroit, Michigan Northbrook Velodrome - Northbrook, Illinois
Kissena Velodrome – Kissena, NY Colorado Velodrome - Olympic Training Center, Colorado Springs
If you believe, and you support this effort, make a pledge. We
don’t need you money now, but we will need it shortly. If every
person who signed the online petition gave only $100, the CCVA could
break ground tomorrow with $131,800 in the bank.
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