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Battle plans
Orange County supervisors should sit down at the table with preservationists
Date published: 4/5/2009
IT'S GRATIFYING to know that a The location is, of course, the site of the second battle of The Wilderness: this one over the proposed construction of a Wal-Mart near the original Civil War battlefield. The tug-and-pull between the county, landowners, Wal-Mart, and preservationists has history and economics crossing swords. The King family, which owns over 2,000 acres in the vicinity (although not the proposed Wal-Mart site), will join in discussions with the Wilderness Battlefield Coalition on how best to balance the economic needs of the county, their rights and desires as property owners, and the goals of preservationists. This makes perfect sense, because all sides involved have valid points. Now if only county supervisors would concur. Their invitation by the preservationists to come to the table in January was met with a sniff. The majority saw it as a ruse to delay their decision on Wal-Mart. It's unclear whether the King family's decision to join the talks will affect the supervisors, but it should. The Wal-Mart proposal is not by-right development; supervisors must OK the plan. So why not participate in open discussions before the fact? It's better to break bread before breaking ground. Once the asphalt is down, history is lost.
Date published: 4/5/2009
Why?
(posted by
LastManStanding
, Apr. 5, 2009 6:11 pm)
Why just plop a Wal-Mart down at that location without thinking ahead (aka PLANNING) with what best to do with the commercially zoned property. The Kings, owners of 2000 of these acres are willing to do so.
WHY isn't the county? Whey piecemeal it? Put a little tought into it rather then letting Wal-Mart do your planning for you.
its the walmary haters
(posted by
cassandra&sarasdaddy
, Apr. 5, 2009 11:21 am)
financed and run as a front by the unions that are ussually behind this stuff. the unions fear
And that's the point larry
(posted by
wideopenspace
, Apr. 5, 2009 8:18 am)
The county has already gone thru this before, they simply don't want to sit thru it yet again and listen to the same stuff yet again with no good case being made to not allow Wal-Mart there. These preservationists don't want anything there if they had their way. The time to sit down and talk was several years ago when the county was doing a long term comp plan, not now when construction is about to take place. The comp plan discussion was very well advertised yet they didn't show up to fight anything on it.
This is just another case of extortion
(posted by
Catch22
, Apr. 5, 2009 7:50 am)
The usual suspects shaking down a huge
corporation. The "preservationist" aholes
learned the game from the Rev (not) Jackson
the most skilled race based shakedown artist
of all time.
I'd like to better understand why
(posted by
larryg
, Apr. 5, 2009 7:35 am)
a Walmart would have more impact than what is already
there...Sheetz, McDonalds, 7-11, used car lot, and about
20 other businesses...
what is it about WalMart locating on the far side of these
businesses with those business closer to the historic land
than the WalMart that is thought to be harmful?
I think we got off on the wrong foot here by inviting in the
anti WalMart forces.. who usually are not Civil War
Preservation folks in the whole..
And the reality is .. I've not seen a case made yet.
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