MAD at Home Depot
They call themselves MADSET: the Milford Alliance to Defeat Sprawl at Exit Ten. Residents in this small community have organized to push off the map
They call themselves MADSET: the Milford Alliance to Defeat Sprawl at Exit Ten. Residents in this small community have organized to push off the map
Residents of Topsham, Maine may think their community is number #1 — but now they know that as far as Wal-Mart is concerned, they were
Residents in the Visitacion Valley neighborhood of San Francisco are hoping to prevent a visitation from a planned 108,000 s.f. Home Depot. According to a
Citizens in Maine are actively resisting big box sprawl in Ellsworth, Belfast, Rockland, and Topsham (see newsflash entries on 7/17, 6/30, 6/25, and 6/7.) In
Like an ever-growing number of communities across the country, the picturesque town of Lenox, Massachusetts is facing surburban developers who will change the character of
More than four years after Sprawl-Busters reported on the dangers of shopping at big box retailers, the major media is now “discovering” the issue. In
On August 5, 2000, 42 year old Fred Nelson went to his local Wal-Mart store on Hudson Drive in Stow, Ohio, and purchased a sawed-off
I visited beautiful Decorah, Iowa back in December of 1998 at the invitation of the Citizens for Responsible Development. They were trying to stop Wal-Mart
One defeat was not enough to kill Wal-Mart in Mason City, Iowa. Local officials were so eager to see Wal-Mart come to town — even
It took a jury only 3 hours to award New Hampshire resident Gail Yount $550,000 for injuries she sustained while shopping at Wal-Mart. It took
All that residents in Stanley, Kansas want is growth that is proportional to residential growth, and appropriate in scale. Their community, which was annexed 15
According to reports from sprawl-busters in Peachtree City, GA, which has been battling with Home Depot and Wal-Mart incursions, the city’s Planning Commission will discuss
Home Depot just didn’t have the answers to please local officials at a recent meeting of the Mountain View, CA Environmental Planning Commission. Home Depot
The Akron Beacon Journal (www.ohio.com) carried a 4 part series on megastores in mid July, including an insight to Wal-Mart’s power over its manufacturing vendors.
Even I, who has fought superstores for the past 7 years, was appalled to read in today’s Cincinnati Enquirer a story about Lowe’s trying to
The natives are restless in Home Depot’s home town. A citzen’s group called the Northwest Community Alliance (NCA) has been fighting a plan to build
A Land Use Board of Appeals (LUBA) in Oregon has ruled that Oregon City did not give Wal-Mart enough time to rebut some of the
We reported on 11/20/99 (see newsflash) that many residents of Peachtree City did want Home Depot to branch out in their city, but in recent
The strategies written here were produced by Sprawl-Busters in 2006 at the request of the United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW), mainly for citizen groups that were fighting Walmart. But the tips for fighting unwanted development apply to any project—whether its fighting Dollar General, an Amazon warehouse, or a Home Depot.
Big projects, or small, these BATTLEMART TIPS will help you better understand what you are up against, and how to win your battle.