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What we don't want is another Starbucks across the street and tearing down the old museum so that Eckerds can compete with business from Walgreens. Understand? It's called urban planning and it's out the window in most suburbs. Unregulated sprawl is a blight, I don't need 5 new drugstores within 1/2 block, at the expense of the historic 100 year old buildings and neither do you.

So...you want to be king? Get your own fiefdom. Who are you to say there should not be another drugstore? Keeping historic buildings is one thing; you deciding how many of any one retailer is another. The market will decide whether the town needs another drugstore, or apartment or Starbucks. If the people in your town don't want a certain retailer, the retailer will go away. People vote with their feet and pocketbooks. There are towns where there are only one drugstore, one department store, one restaurant. One example is the old company mining towns; the other is in socialist countries. Competition is frowned upon there, also.

So...you want to be king? Get your own fiefdom. Who are you to say there should not be another drugstore? Keeping historic buildings is one thing; you deciding how many of any one retailer is another.

Ooooof. You're going to start this too? Get a clue, your city council is bought and paid for by developers, get it. How many walmarts and home depots do you need in a 5 mile radius......get it. In Fort Worth I could walk between home depot's, loews and walmart's....get it. It has zero to do with "your living quality" and everything to do with tax revenue....get it...?