AURORA — There isn’t a motorsports racetrack coming anytime soon, but voters here will be asked in November to consider a measure that would let the city offer incentives for such a development.
The initiative — Ballot Question 2J and led by Aurora City Councilwoman Sally Mounier — asks voters whether they want to repeal a 1999 ballot measure that prohibits the city from offering incentives to racetrack developers.
Voters in 1999 to Penske Motorsports, which wanted to build at E-470 and Interstate 70. In 2004, a plan was floated to undo the ban, but it failed.
A few years later, International Speedway Corp. eyed Aurora for a new NASCAR racetrack, but the slumping economy halted that plan.
ISC and NASCAR have no plans to build a racetrack here in the foreseeable future, Mounier said.
But if they come calling again, Mounier wants Aurora to be ready to offer financial incentives should the city want a racetrack.
“Absolutely no one has contacted me or anyone else regarding building a racetrack, and they won’t as long as the language is in the charter,” Mounier said.
ISC spokeswoman Gentry Baumline-Robinson said there is “nothing brewing” regarding a racetrack in Aurora.
