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So, you want to open an off-road track in Kern County? You must be stubborn or crazy. Best if you’re both. Oh, and a good, strong pair of legs is essential for all the hoop jumping you’ll be doing. Since the state has failed miserably at building new off-road parks (despite an $86 million annual budget and $90 million generated  by fuel taxes and green sticker fees paid by off-roaders for, um, new parks), it’s basically up to regular Joes to take up the slack. That’s no easy feat when you consider the byzantine world of CEQA, the California Environmental Quality Act. Even so, Darrell Melton, Darin Layton and Charlie Comfort were crazy enough to wade into that world more than four years ago to open Honolulu Hills Raceway east of Taft. And they’ve been stubborn enough to stick with it over four years of stutter-stepping through paperwork, meetings, reports, studies and countless phone calls. They’ve been operating under a temporary use...
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