FORT ERIE, Ontario, Canada -- The town council committee will take final public comments before voting on a $150 million ($142.129 million US) Canadian Motor Speedway racing complex proposal here after 6 p.m. Dec. 7.

The council-in-committee will be voting on accepting an adminstration report recommending that an 821-acre lot towards the southwesten part of town be approved for building CMS. The council, after holding a preliminary public hearing Nov. 23, asked town planners to draft the report.

The CMS proposal, if approved, would then have to gain approval of the 21- member Niagra Region Council. The NRC, which includes all mayors and 18 elected council members from Fort Erie and 11 other municipalities, may place the proposal on its transportation and planning committee agenda as early as 1 p.m. Dec. 9 at nearby Thorold.

CMS's partners, should they get both green lights, are confident about getting construction rapidly underway. Cdnmotorspeedway.com has a countdown clock stating, as of Monday, that its April 2011 grand opening is 486 days away.

CMS partners include include Jeff Gordon and Emirates Consulting. The four-time NASCAR Sprint Cup champion, who sent a recommendation letter to the council's Sept. 9 hearing, is a race track design consultant. United Arab Emirates-based Emirates Consulting joined other investors on the project late last year.

Other partnes include race track builder Paxton Waters Architecture, of Carmel, Ind., local business model developer MaseRace, McMaster University and the Ogilvy Renault LLP law firm.

The votes will decide whether CMS would take a step off the drawing board after four years' planning - or become the latest of three failed bids to build a special events speedplant in the Niagara Falls - Bufflao area since 1998.

CMS's partners want to build a one-mile oval speedway and 2.6-mile road course on most of a six block area two miles southwest of the international border and 20 minutes from Niagara Falls' hotels and attractions. Ft. Erie has zoned the land - bordered by Bowen Road, the Queen Elizabeth Way, Gilmore Road, Sunset Drive, Bertie Street and Ridgemount Road - for agricultural, extractive industrial and hazard use.

The progressively banked speedway is to be used as part of the full FIA- standard road course. There are to be three tunnels build under the backstretch: one for truck and spectator access plus two dedicated directional tunnels that connect competitors between the oval infield and the southeastern outfield.

CMS designers have said that grandstand spectators will have full view of the oval and road circuits. It is to open with 65,000 seat grandstands with expansion capacity to 100,000 - including 5,000 club seats and 80 luxury suites.

There will be camping on ptemisis plus a seasonal RV park, bike paths, walkway and an ecology park. Although two streams will be rechanneled, the designers are attempting to make CMS the first carbon-neutral motorsports facility.

McMaster University is to operate a year-round on-premises motorsports and automotive research and development business incubation park. Driver training and experience schools and a retail-commercial area are also featured.

CMS, through an Ernst & Young study, anticipates $200 million ($189.5 million US) in construction costs of a facility that would generate annual economic activity of $200 million. That annual generation includes $30 million ($28.425 million US) of generated provivcial and federal tax revenue. That revenue is to be generated from a potential economic pool of 140 million people within a 500-mile radius of CMS.

The CMS Web site touts supportive quotations from Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty on down.

A group called Fort Erie CARS, however, has posed questions about traffic, carbon neutrality and possible declining property values should CMS be built.

The Dec. 7 meeting is to be held at Ft. Erie's Lesuireplex Banquet Hall, 3 Municipal Centre Dr. Public speakers are to register for a maximum 10 minutes to the clerk's office, by 3 p.m. that day. The recommendation report is to be posted Dec. 4 on www.town.forterie.on.ca.