City Gives Wal-Mart Zoning Delicatessen
Sprawl-Busters reported last August that Wal-Mart, fresh on the heels of a loss in Hillsboro, Oregon, was seeking to build a store in nearby Cornelius.
Sprawl-Busters reported last August that Wal-Mart, fresh on the heels of a loss in Hillsboro, Oregon, was seeking to build a store in nearby Cornelius.
On December 13, 2005, Sprawl-Busters reported that citizens in Batavia, New York had put a proposed Wal-Mart into a deep freeze when they took the
Another developer, under public pressure, has dropped hands with Wal-Mart to make their proposal more palatable. In the town of Thomaston, Maine, a developer from
More than 2,000 residents in Fairhope, Alabama signed a petition against a proposed Wal-Mart supercenter on 57 acres of land east of the city, but
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.