is ticked by all the stupid nimby stuff that goes on
we area small industrial town,, one mill covers as much of town as town does, we are surrounded by industrial property, and yeah the town has out grown the smaler wal mart built in the 70's soo wal mart wants to bring in a super center,, first choice was a peice of commercial propertyu about 2 blocks from original location, and they would still put a store into the one they were vacatring,( either a buds or a big lots) town did every thing they could to discourtage them getting tis pierce of property, even though it would still face same street would be across from a residential instead of commercial, but wuld have kept wm and mcdonaslds in cener of town. city went s far as getting the 50 acres wm wanted broken down into smaller lots.. one now houses an animal hospital,, and local animal shelter, another parcel is home to the 4 million dollar library that has about half the shelevs stocke dand the books are so old and outr dated you have to be cautious reading them, i litteraly had oine fall appart when i opened it, then they decided this heavyily travel commercial street( main street actual;ly) was a good location for a rent controlled senior housing center we hgave several elderly gentlemen now that sit on the curb ,, this is also localk truck route, and wander out into street?? city ended uyp annexing 1000 acres of forest land inrto town, almost 1/2 mile from center of town out in the woods,, directly across from medical center, bandaid hospital and drs plaza, in a swamp, so far wm has hauled n several thousand yards of fill , and insted of several smaller property owners getting bought out by wm,, the big industry( georgia pacific) gets to sell land that it already clear cut timber from, that ws to wet and swampy to be productive timber lands, basiuccally a g p loss, and sell to wm ,, they they also aer requireing wm to pay to expand road, add 2 traffic lights, wm has to have SEWERage and water moved by 1/2 mile from teh current end of line to store locatrion, wm has to build a secondary access road into site through the rest of teh new industrial annex the city made annexing this swamp into town, w m has to upgrade the three rail road crossings they will affect, add to this that since wm paired up with mcdonalds.. local mickyds now has to relocate from center of town out to that area oh yeah, and since city couldnt get wm the property they wanted, in town, wm has backed out on putting diff store into old building now it will be vacated completyely its too small to be a very marketable retail location, its too big fort small store to smal for big,
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