Residents Launch Effort to Starve Wal-Mart superstore.
Is it possible to starve a Wal-Mart superstore? Residents in Tigard, Oregon, a small suburb of Portland, want to find out. After their City Council
Is it possible to starve a Wal-Mart superstore? Residents in Tigard, Oregon, a small suburb of Portland, want to find out. After their City Council
After the city of Tigard, Oregon approved a Wal-Mart supertore, opponents did not go away. The group Tigard First announced this week a “new incarnation”
The standard procedure in zoning cases across America is that the developer trots out his hired traffic engineer, who proceeds to explain how adding 12,000
Many elected officials want Wal-Mart to come to their town because their planners have told them that this is how you solve a city’s financial
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.