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Thread #68554   Message #1156618
Posted By: GUEST,pattyClink
07-Apr-04 - 11:15 AM
Thread Name: BS: Walmart Sidesteps the Government...
Subject: RE: BS: Walmart Sidesteps the Government...
Chief and 'business dude', skipping an environmental impact study may not be a big deal where you live, but there's a reason they call one of the major and most deadly faults in California the Newport-INGLEWOOD Fault. It's extremely important for a building which may hold a couple thousand people at a time in that area to be built to withstand whatever seismic forces will be seen on that site and the only way to do it is with a site-specific EIS.

I hope you'll excuse my attitude problem. I live in one of the southern states littered with gigantic, junky old Walmart buildings abandoned while they move on to greener pastures in richer neighborhoods. They leave their own train of cheap built crap in their wake along with destroyed downtowns.

Inglewood needed one of these like a hole in the head; and believe
me, phase 2 would have been to abandon that toehold in a poor neighborhood for a better one in Encino.

Bravo to voters for not being conned!