Good Planning? Another Wal-Mart Goes Up

 

It?EUR??,,????'???s a typical scenario across the country: residents meeting with city planners and officials about a Wal-Mart Supercenter scheduled to open in their city. In Sept., the Logan, Utah planning commission met to make sure Wal-Mart was following city codes in its design. Several hundred people also showed up, with about 20 people speaking in general opposition to the store, although it is already a reality.

The commission unanimously gave the go-ahead to continue the project, provided the company meets various conditions of the site plan. Some residents objected to the ?EUR??,,????'??ugly?EUR??,,????'?? design; others questioned building in a flood plane, destroying wetlands and light pollution.

Michael Timmons, a landscape architect on the faculty at Utah State University, who holds a masters of landscape architecture from the Harvard University Graduate School of Design, was quoted by the local paper as ?EUR??,,????'??appreciative of the staff for doing what they can do with a sow?EUR??,,????'???s ear.?EUR??,,????'?? He added: ?EUR??,,????'??But by creating this huge void of parking, it?EUR??,,????'???s entirely contrary and contradictory to good planning.?EUR??,,????'??