San Joaquin County supervisors approve purchasing former Oakmoore Golf Course [Video]

STOCKTON, Calif. — A crowd applauded Tuesday as the San Joaquin County Board of Supervisors unanimously voted in favor of using $9.6 million from the capital overlay fund to buy the closed-down Oakmoore Golf Course on Stockton‘s Wilson Way. Despite the loud and visible reaction, not everyone was clapping.

Community members and nearby business owners, like 99 Speedway CEO Tony Noceti, pushed back against the purchase.

“I bring approximately 300,000 people to Stockton, California with festivals, the dirt track and the 99 Speedway and I’m very concerned about it,” said Noceti. “The neighborhood should be involved with this too because we had no notifications whatsoever that the County was entertaining buying this property.”

County supervisors say laws prevented them from saying …