Many cites have CAPs on business building size - eg 40,000 or 50,000 sq ft. These are honored in courts. We can have them if we want them.
The WalMart supercenters are something like 250,000 sq feet - which I have been told is several football fields. Just for the building - with much more space put into parking. Anyway, outrageously large. I would like to see a cap of say 40,000 to 50,000 sq ft put into city ordinances in Mpls & StPaul and Roseville etc, and then once it is seen as popular, made state-wide. --David Shove Roseville On Wed, 26 May 2004, Mike Jensvold wrote: > How about an ordinance banning or taxing stores that have more than a > certain square footage of retail space, or more than a certain number of > surface parking lots? How about a land value tax ( > http://www.earthrights.net/docs/kunstler.html ) that discourages wasting > valuable urban land as automobile storage? > > We need to fight hard to stop the walmartization of wages and our urban > communities. > > Mike Jensvold > East Isles > > At 01:05 PM 5/25/2004, Gayle Bonneville wrote: > >I hear Northeast Minneapolis will soon have a new neighbor across the > >street, Wal-Mart. Minneapolis officials and residents may be tempted to > >write this off as "somebody else's problem," since the store is across the > >street in St. Anthony Village. But I hope we're considering the impact this > >will have on Minneapolis -- for instance, traffic on Minneapolis streets and > >neighborhoods when Wal-Mart's customers (along with the 2,000 or so > >additional residents slated for the adjacent new housing units) are > >accessing the store and their homes -- particularly the main routes of > >Johnson Street, Stinson Parkway and 37th Avenue, mainly residential areas. > >And if past scenarios come true, there will be a negative effect on existing > >and local business, such as the independent and immigrant businesses on > >Central Avenue, even food establishments, since Wal-Mart is trying to be > >"everything under one roof" once they've got you in the door. Then of > >course, there are all the questions about lousy labor practices, the > >taxpayer subsidy in human services for these poorly paid workers, and all > >the other not-just-local concerns that follow this Big Box from town to town > >all over the country. This also makes me wonder if the existing Cub Foods > >store be elbowed out of the Wal-Mart site in favor of Wal-Mart's own grocery > >arm. Would Cub then come looking once again at Central Avenue in Northeast > >Minneapolis, despite the frosty reception it got last time? > > > >Concerned citizens from Minneapolis, St. Anthony Village, Roseville, > >Columbia Heights and surrounding areas are meeting Thursday, May 27, to talk > >about the Wal-Mart situation. Meeting is at 6:30 p.m. in Culver's Restaurant > >back room, 4004 Silver Lake Road, just north of the future home of Wal-Mart > >in St. Anthony Village. All are welcome. > > > > > >Gayle Bonneville > >Waite Park/Northeast Minneapolis > > > > > > > > > >REMINDERS: > >1. Think a member has violated the rules? Email the list manager at > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] before continuing it on the list. > >2. Don't feed the troll! Ignore obvious flame-bait. > > > >For state and national discussions see: http://e-democracy.org/discuss.html > >For external forums, see: http://e-democracy.org/mninteract > >________________________________ > > > >Minneapolis Issues Forum - A City-focused Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy > >Post messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Subscribe, Un-subscribe, etc. at: http://e-democracy.org/mpls > > REMINDERS: > 1. Think a member has violated the rules? Email the list manager at [EMAIL > PROTECTED] before continuing it on the list. > 2. Don't feed the troll! Ignore obvious flame-bait. > > For state and national discussions see: http://e-democracy.org/discuss.html > For external forums, see: http://e-democracy.org/mninteract > ________________________________ > > Minneapolis Issues Forum - A City-focused Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy > Post messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subscribe, Un-subscribe, etc. at: http://e-democracy.org/mpls > REMINDERS: 1. Think a member has violated the rules? Email the list manager at [EMAIL PROTECTED] before continuing it on the list. 2. Don't feed the troll! Ignore obvious flame-bait. For state and national discussions see: http://e-democracy.org/discuss.html For external forums, see: http://e-democracy.org/mninteract ________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A City-focused Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Un-subscribe, etc. at: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
