They are doing the same thing in Beech Grove, Indiana. A WalMart store wants to locate in Beech Grove and residents don't want it because it's too close to their homes.....the argument is still ongoing....but we all know what's going to happen...
That's a different issue to the one at hand. Now, if Walmart is planning to plow their homes under to build the store...
This is a racket that satarted CA. City fathers raise a big bond issue to build an auto mall, a return-to-custody-facility (parole violaters' resort) and a shopping center. Oh yeah, the developers also give the city a park.
Usually it takes the city 200 years to rationalize the cost of all this hoopla. But in the meantime, another group will come along and the land will be traded back and forth among the city fathers and mothers, who are in and out of office.
Are Americans now to stupid to see that some persons of extremely modest means, are extremely wealthy after several terms on city council? Bond Issues, eminent domain, and development are a very large feeding trough for politicos.