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Randy Wyatt Jr. sits in his go-cart on a go-cart track that he has struggled for 18 months to open on an acre his family owns in San Bernardino.
Youth gets education in fight with city hall
By CASSIE MacDUFF
Sun Staff Writer
been convicted of operating the track with-
out permits and faces a final hurdle - city
council approval - before he can legally
SAN BERNARDINO - Randy Wyatt open the business he envisioned as a place
Jr. had just graduated from Rialto's Eisen- for youth to take part in clean, safe outdoor
hower High School in June 1989 when he fun and stay out ortrouble.
began another sort of education. rn"According to Wyatt. his misadventures
lik n'il'egan when he visited the planning and
He learned what it's e trying to Ight building services department soon after
~mau. graduation from high school.
For 18 months. the I9-year-old entre- He asked officials what he needed to do
preneur has been locked in a struggle for to get permission to tear out an asphalt
permission to build and operate a go-cart parking lot and replace it with a 94-by-I80-
track on an acre his family owns in the L~tle foot concrete pad surrounded by a 4-foot
Creek Wash next to the Veterans of ForeIgn retaining wall.
Wars hall. .. l- He was told all he needed was one per-
The enterpnse - !,It Stop a Go-Go - mit that would allow him to grade the lot
s!:.9med an Ideal summer bUSIness. It was to and build the wall, Wyatt said.
fund his. college eaucatlOn and the educa. "I got the permit to build the track and
tlOn of hIS two younger brothers an~ sIster ordered my carts;' 15 shiny, new ones at
as they grew up and took over the bUSiness. $3.000 each. His father helped him borrow
Hi~ experience with the San Bernardino ~he money.
planmng. dep!'rtment has taught him les- ('2'> Wilen a cIty engineering Inspector came
son. a umverslty couJqne~r dUPlicate. 't6 sign 01T on the finished project, what he
Today, Wyatt is $100,000 in debt, has saw was not the work allowed by the permit
- grading and building a wall - but a rec.
reational facility, Planning Director Larry
E. Reed said.
Said Wyatt. "He told me I didn't con.
form to a (conditional use permit), which I
didn't know what that was, and I didn't have
usines lie ..
T at was the first time anyone had men-
~ oned those sermits to him, Wyatt said.
Fteea sal the COnn,lSlOn 10 wyatt's cas~
came because the young man didn't make it
clear to planners that he intended to oper-
ate a goO-cart track. His initial consultation
dealt only with the wall and grading, Reed
said.
The inspector issued a stop-work order
but the wall was already finished, so Wyat
obtained permission to top it with a 4-foo
chain.link fence "so people didn't go in an
get hurt;' he.sald.
- A Plaknner toWWyatt to draw a p an for
the trac on an 8Vo-by-ll-inch paper, for
approval by stalT. When Wyatt returned
with the drawing, he said the planner told
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Continued IromlB1 confusion should be eliminated Reed sa! ~ .
him he needed l\1ll-blown blueprints and to appt..f'?) w, ou Wyatt dect to 0 n the
for a conditional use permit, ....~rac deS!{lte no aV1l1g en pe .
What started as a simple project _ a concrete "I ha to stay open because I'm commuted to
track, portable reJtrooms and storage bins for the these payments." he said. "They don't go away."
go-carts that would be removed at the end of each Thro!lihout s~mm!"r 1989, city om~lals returned
summer _ blossomed under iannln de ent several times to Cite him, finally ordenng the power
sti ulati en'~ . an 0 ce- company to shut off the electricity, Wyatt brought in
restroom building that needed an~neer'lo de- a portable generator to keep the track running.
slg11 and will cost wyatt $350,000. _. . - A resident on the ridge above the track com-
"They've come up with all kinds of hoops for him plalned about noise from amplified music Wyatt
to jump through," said his father, Randy Wyatt Sr., bro ht 111 to pum u
a Colton planning commissioner and constructio~ -"1'he city too him to court, charging him with
contractor, "Wben 1 started out in business, people three violations of operating without permits. The
were very helpful. They'd walk you through every- judge found him guilty and ordered him to remain
thing and explain everything. Colton still operates closed until he had the permits. He wasn't fined or
like a hometown where you go In and talk to some- placed!tl!p!"9bation Wyattsa!d.
body. , , . You can't do it that way in San Bernardl- He obeyed the judge's 'Order, Summer 1990
no," passed without the crowds of happy kids and color-
The elder Wyatt thought the project would be a ful go-carts buzzing around the track at 25-30 mph.
good way for his son to learn the ropes offounding a Now the track's walls are marred by gramti, - It
business. hasn't been a pleasant time for Wyatt.
"Because I'm in business and my wife's in busi- "I grew up in that area," he said. "I always
ness, we want our children to understand what it thought 1 could do something good for the area. . , ,
takes," he said. His wife runs an auto repair shop. This (would) give kids someplace to go and some-
"This (go-cart track) seemed like a simple business thing to do besides go out and rob and vandalize."
rk'dstorun. What it's turned into is a nightmare," He doesn't know whether city omclals put him
~ After his son su mt e IS pan, ners eld through so many changes because of his youth "or
onto them for nearly six months, the elder Wyatt hey don't want activities on the West Side," he said.
said. Then they brought him before an In-house re- Wyatt Sr. wanted his son to start a business on
view panel a half-dozen times over the next six 'own, The father thinks the process has made his
_ontlt$~a!!ding!,onditions to the project each tlm . son wiser, ifsadder.
5 They asked for parallenlarlUng, en lagonal \ "In fact, I'm not sure ifI could do any better with
\ parking spaces, then back to parallel, Wyatt Jr. said. ~'the city of San Bernardino," Wyatt Sr. said, "With
\ They moved a trash enclosure three times until it ther cities, yes. Not with San Bernardino in the
was back where it started. They ordered a noise ay it's gotten in the last few years,"
study and had Wyatt report on how three other go- The San Bernardino planning staff has recom-
cart tracks in the area operate. . __ / mended approval of the project. The planning com-
~ an ng 0 CI s wi e that otIier dev 1- mission rejected it last month, and Wyatt has ap-
opers an Ul ers ave receiy _ II . pealed to the city council. The council will hear the
ii! answer and ex erlencea . , trations matter in January.
Wit t e planning ~rocess. Wyatt said he is a bit nervous as the day of reck-
.- They say the Isruptlon of the last two years' oning approaches, But whatever happens, he will
general plan and zoning code revisions resulted in never forget the experience. "I've learned a lot of
staff confusion and conflicting instructions, When politics, that's for sure. I've learned more than they
the new zoning code is completed next spring, such could teach me in school- ever,"
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