I hate when people do that, but if they know the right officials, you will be surprised what some aholes will do or laws they pass.
I used to autocross race often at Englishtown Raceway in NJ. A few years back, around '02-03, someone had bought a house about a mile away and was complaining about the noise the cars make on the drag strip.
Well they way I heard it was he was friends with the mayor and other county officials so they ended up passing a town code/ordinance that stated there cannot be any excessive noise on Sunday before 11am. So they could no longer start any type of racing at 8:30-9am like they use to, and had to wait until 11am. Now we don't get done with our autocross runs until about 5pm because we start 1hr late.
The race park had been there 40+yrs and this jerk moves in and he accomplishes that within a few months by knowing some people. I know they were trying to do get some other laws passed for Saturday and during the week and put time limits on all the racing there. I don't know if they 've been successful because I don't race during the week or drag race.
Imagine like Paul said, someone moves near an airport, and tries to have the flights grounded until after 11am on Sunday because he wants to sleep late!!
