I am disappointed to hear that the Wal-Mart expansion application was rejected. I am even more disappointed that both of you voted against the application. Living in the north end of town, we are underserviced and a grocery store at that location would be welcomed by many. I think alot of us in Ward 2 expected your support and I am sure you will hear from many more disappointed taxpayers. I don’t accept the explanation of congestion in traffic because this can be applied in many other circumstances, i.e. we have to drive from our north end to the Stone Road Mall, or we have to drive from our north end of town to the Athletic Club, or to East Side Mario, or to Williams Coffee Pub, or to the YMCA or even to our own doctor’s office because of the lack of physicians and we have to “take what we can get”.
And don’t forget, alot of this traffic congestion would be better managed if we actually had a traffic light system in our city that was efficient and allowed more than one or two vehicles to make a left-hand turn at a busy intersection, a situation I face very morning on my drive to work.
We were looking forward to having more shopping choices available in our area and now instead we will likely again be in the middle of lengthy and costly negotiations at the OMB level.
You even went against the recommendation of your own City staff on this issue. And it will appear to everyone that again, council is driven by a vocal minority of familiar names.
It’s unfortunate that this was council’s decision. Again, as before, it will turn out to be a very unpopular move. MG
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Let us say first of all that we are very dissapointed with the negetive vote on Walmart. At this time we do not know who on Council voted for or against but it must be understood by all what happened last time this situation arrose. First ,history shows –Millioins of taxpayers dollars will be spent and lost”again” fighting Wallmart and we know who will win. Second—- we all the last Council was voted out because it was against Wallmart. There are lessons here for you to learn. We read that this Mayor voted for this, is it because she knew Council would vote against to save her job????
This may not be true, but is it not a sad day when we feel we cannot trust those who supposedly represent us. RF