A victory for the little guy!

I can see where you might think from my statement that I could give a rats bung about the environemtal study.

I believe it is tremendously important for these surveys to be done. In this particular case they are trying to build on an already existing old parking lot. The studies are supposed to be done to see what impact the building/parkinglot/business would have on the surrounding environment. With an airport nearby I'd hardly expect a Wal-Mart to be able to impact the environment comparably.

It would be a great disaster should a wal-mart full of people feel the effects of a 7.0 on the richter. Especially the way they build them. This isn't covered in the environmental impact study. It should be covered in the land survey (which the proposition probably also tried to avoid).

I'm also living in an area with the old wal-mart husks standing abandoned just down the road from the new wal-mart supercenter. Since they've driven out the competition there's no-one to buy the old store. The zoning boards ought to have a law requiring the owners of a building put up a bond to ensure demolition if a new owner can't be found.