Posted Jan 25, 2007, 2:39 PM
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Join Date: May 2006
Location: Calgary, AB
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Some places do have limits in place. The town (approx 15,000 pop) I live in will decide tonight if we will change ours to let Walmart in or not (or at least a possible Walmart, a developer who builds a lot of properties for them is pushing for the development in question without naming names). It's been a huge issue here with a slightly different angle then most small cities fighting against them, as in our case the local business community *wants* them to come, in hopes it keeps people shopping in town, and not going into Calgary. The big issue here is the property they want to build on is a brownfield site that Domtar once owned and has huge contamination issues. And building commercial requires a less complete cleanup then residential, which is what the lobbyist groups in town want done.
Fortunately our planning commision voted 6-1 last week against it, so it will be interesting to see if council risks going against them and in the process possibly assuring themselves of having no chance of being re-elected in this years municipal elections.
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