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While the surrounding campgrounds are State parks, Laguna Seca itself is actually owned by Monterey County and run by SCRAMP. There's obviously many conflicts of interests here as a large portion of the County's operating budget comes from.... property taxes!!! While the track generates about ~$5-mil in taxes for the County and State of CA annually, I suspect that property taxes on the numerous $5-25mil homes surrounding the track brings in a larger chunk. This puts pressure on the County Board of Supervisors to follow the directives of the largest taxpayers.
The resultant noise-regulations has severely cut back on the numbers and size of revenue-generating events. Formula-1, MotoGP, NASCAR and Indy no longer visit this track. This massive loss of revenues has resulted in major cut-back in capital improvements and facilities operations. For most track day events, in addition to 89-db sound-limits, there's only ONE bathroom available, no water or power services in paddock and no food concessions.
It's been going downhill since the major renovations in 1988 to bring back MotoGP. At rate things are deteriorating, I suspect this track will be closed and scrapped to build more McMansions in the next 10-15 yrs.
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