Palmer, Alaska officials will not ban Wal-Mart for 6 months. Why? To help the consumer? To hurt the little guy? No, to help the politicians!
Enacting a moratorium, Councilman Ken Erbey said, would risk pushing Wal-Mart outside city boundaries, where it can serve the city population without having to comply with city zoning codes or the details of the large-retail ordinance."We can revise the LRE and make it so strict as to get them to say 'We don't have to abide by the LRE,' " Erbey said. "They don't have to go up the Palmer-Wasilla Highway, they can go just up the street by the fairgrounds. Then we have no say-so in what they build and, worst of all, we don't get any of the action."
Posted by Kevin on May, 26 2005 at 09:23 AM
