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Anti-Sprawl Material Worth Reading Order items from the
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| TITLE | date |
DESCRIPTION |
pages
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Donation
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| Maine's Informed Growth Act | 09/2007 | State law requiring economic impact reports. | 8 |
$1.00 |
Trip Generation Characteristics of Free-Standing Superstores |
08/2006 | Helpful traffic numbers for superstores over 200,000 square feet. | 4 |
$1.00 |
| Does Wal-Mart Cause An Increase in Anti-Poverty Program Expenditures? | 04/2006 | Air Force Institute of Technology says WMT increases Medicaid Expenditures by $898 per worker. | 21 |
$2.10 |
| Model Low Impact Development (LID) Bylaw | 04/2006 | Massachusetts Smart Growth Tool Kit Bylaw | 37 |
$3.70 |
| The Economic Impact of Wal-Mart | 11/2005 | Full report by Global Insight | 62 |
$6.20 |
| The Economic Impact of Wal-Mart Exec Summary | 11/2005 | Wal-Mart's favorite impact report by Global Insight | 7 |
$1.00 |
Does Wal-Mart Cause an Increase in Anti-Poverty Expenditures |
11/2005 |
Study finds Wal-Mart increases Medicaid expenditures by $898 per worker. By Michael Hicks |
21 |
$2.10 |
The Economic Impact of Wal-Mart |
11/2005 |
Global Insight study paid for by Wal-Mart, says food stores, apparel and accessory stores lose jobs. |
62 |
$6.20 |
What Do Quarterly Workforce Dynamics Tell Us About Wal-Mart? |
11/2005 |
Michael Hicks study from PA. Show Wal-Mart draws employees from existing businesses and reduces job creation., |
16 |
$1.60 |
The Impact of Wal-Mart on Local Fiscal Health |
11/2005 |
Michael Hicks. Finds that Wal-Mart increases local property tax assessments, and increases Medicaid expenditures |
28 |
$2.80 |
Consumer Benefits from Increased Competition in Shopping Outlets |
11/2005 |
MIT paper estimates consumer benefits from Wal-Mart supercenter for food to be substantial. Does not measure costs to workers. |
32 |
$3.20 |
Wal-Mart: 21 st Century Leadership |
10/2005 |
CEO Lee Scott's vision of the future |
15 |
$1.50 |
Supplemental Benefits Documentation |
10/2005 |
Leaked memo from Wal-Mart's VP of Benefits |
27 |
$2.70 |
Model Fair Share Health Care Act |
10/2005 |
Model health care bill for any state by National Labor Caucus of State Legislators |
7 |
$1.00 |
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Wal-Mart Watch Annual Report 2005 |
06/2005 |
This report counters Wal-Mart's Annual Report, and covers a wide range of company transgressions. |
26 |
$2.60 |
| Not in My Backyard: Analysis Of Community Opposition to U.S. Big Box Retail |
04/2005 | Wall Street analysts warn of impact of community oppostion on Wal-Mart's Stock price. |
16 |
$1.60 |
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Wal-Mart Workers Enrolled In State Health Plan |
01/2005 |
Studies and media stories from Tennessee, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, and Georgia. |
21 |
$2.10 |
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New Jersey Regional Economic Impact Reports |
11/2004 |
Requires impact studies for projects that show “intermunicipal impacts.” |
16 |
$1.60 |
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The Andersonville Study of Retail Economics |
10/2004 |
Compares the economic impacts of 10 local businesses in Illinois, & their chain store competitors. |
34 |
$3.40 |
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Chicago “Living Wage” Ordinance |
10/2004 |
Requires large employers to pay a living wage of $10.42.hr increased by the CPI annually. |
10 |
$1.00 |
|
2004 American Community Survey |
10/2004 |
Americans prefer a smart growth community over a sprawl community. |
22 |
$2.20 |
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Wal-Mart and County Wide Poverty |
10/2004 |
Counties with more Wal-Marts had greater increases in poverty rates. |
18 |
$1.80 |
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Wal-Mart Supercenter Impact On Grocery Shopping in Carson City, Nevada |
08/2004 |
Survey of nearly 500 shoppers. Existing supermarkets lost between 10% to 20% of sales when Wal-Mart supercenter opened. |
25 |
$2.50 |
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Understanding the Fiscal Impact of Land Use in Ohio |
08/2004 |
Overview of fiscdal implications of development policy. Shows big box stores are a net loser for towns. |
26 |
$2.60 |
| Hidden Cost of Wal-Mart Jobs |
08/2004 |
Use of welfare programs by Wal-Mart workers in California by U. Cal/Berkeley |
14 |
$1.40 |
| Shopping for Subsidies |
05/2004 |
How Wal-Mart Uses Taxpayer Money to Finance Its Never-Ending Growth. By Good Jobs First. | 66 |
$6.60 |
| Advantages of Smart Growth Development Patterns |
03/2004 |
Compact development and investing in urban cores could save taxpayers money. By the Brookings Institute. | 40 |
$4.00 |
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Fiscal & Competitive Advantages of Smarter Growth
Development |
03/2004 |
Brookings Institution study says regional economic performance is enchanced by smart growth policies |
32 |
$3.20 |
| Wal-Mart's Impact On the American Supermarket Industry |
02/2004 |
Focuses in on Oklahoma City, where 31 grocery stores closed between 1998-2003 due to Wal-Mart. | 18 |
$1.80 |
| Everyday Low Wages. |
02/2004 |
The Hidden Price We All Pay for Wal-Mart. Use of taxpayer subsidies by Wal-Mart. By the staff of U.S. Congressman George Miller (D-CA). | 27 |
$2.70 |
| Built With Corporate Welfare |
09/2003 |
The use of tax subsidies to finance Wal-Mart distribution centers. By Sprawl-Busters. | 27 |
$2.70 |
| Fiscal Economic Impact of Proposed Shopping Center Project
on City of Leominster |
08/2003 |
Tom Muller study of 510,000 s.f. Wal-Mart, Lowe's and Kohl's on city of Leominster, MA |
22 |
$2.20 |
| Los Angeles “Community Impact” Report
ordinance |
05/2003 |
Community Redevelopment Authority requires a community impact reports. | 20 |
$2.00 |
| Big Box
Distribution Centers: Built with Corporate Welfare |
03/2003 |
Collection of stories from Sprawl-Busters of how Distribution Centers | 27 |
$2.70 |
| Economic
& Fiscal Impacts of the Proposed Skyway Plaza Center |
01/2003 |
Study of economic
impacts of a
319,360 s.f. mall in Paradise, CA. |
31 |
$3.10 |
| In Orange
Blood: A View of Home Depot from Home Town America |
09/2002 |
Update of Sprawl-Busters article "Home Towns, Not Home Depot" with data up to 2002. | 29 |
$2.90 |
| Fiscal
Impact Analysis of Residential & Nonresidential Land Use Prototypes |
07/2002 |
Study of impacts
on tax base of various land uses in Baranstable,
MA. Shows big boxes cost money. |
22 |
$2.20 |
| Wal-Mart
Special: Ohio Job Tax
Credits to American's Richest Retailer |
07/2002 |
Policy Matters Ohio study critical of use of tax subsidies for Wal-Mart projects. | 13 |
$1.30 |
| Tax Base
Consequences of Local Economic Development Programs on value of
existing
commercial & retail properties |
2001 |
RKG Associates
case study of how retail overdevelopment in
Concord, NH had negative impact |
6 |
$1.00 |
| Economic
Impact from the Planned Area Development Zoning District of Spring
Valley
Texas |
08/2001 |
Impact study of a 200,000 s.f. Wal-Mart supercenter based on city's consultant | 27 |
$2.70 |
| Store Wars Chat | 08/2001 |
Me, filmaker Micah Peled, and a PR guy from Wal-Mart discuss the film Store Wars | 7 |
$1.00 |
| Wal-Mart
2001 |
04/2001 |
company's annual report | 44 |
$4.40 |
| Buckingham, Pa Zoning Law | 2/2001 |
requires a developer to reuse or remove a big box that sits vacant for more than 12 months | 12 |
$1.20 |
| Buster's Best: Wal-Mart |
1/2000 |
A short collection of 1 page newsletter assorted topics |
30 |
$3.00 |
| 60 Minutes |
1/2001 |
Crime at Wal-Mart stores |
22 |
order
from 60 minutes |
| Kansas City, MO Zoning | 11/2000 |
Sets up small business zone not appropriate for big boxes. | 8 |
$1.00 |
| Northeast Ohio Regional Retail Analysis | 8/2000 |
Executive Summary showing large scale retail is not a good economic development strategy. | 42 |
$4.20 |
| Mamaroneck, NY Law on Major Developments Abutting town. | 6/2000 |
Town law that requires major projects that abut M to get a permit from the town. | 6 |
$1.00 |
| The Wal-Mart Effect | 5/2000 |
The state of American retail stores from the perspective of a credit company. | 7 |
$1.00 |
| Home Depot Hazardous Material Business Plan | 4/2000 |
An example of the hazardous materials stored inside a Home Depot in Oxnard, CA.. | 34 |
$3.40 |
| Quotes
from Chairman Sam |
1/2000 |
Quotes from Sam Walton's
Autobiography |
5 |
$0.50 |
| Valuing
Environmental Resources
in the Palos-Orland Region |
3/2000 |
University of Chicago of lost housing values due to sprawl. | 12 |
$1.20 |
| Maintaining
Retail Balance in
California Cities |
10/1997 |
CA Cities respond to big box chains. |
13 |
$1.30 |
| The Flip Side of Sprawl |
07/1998 |
Restoring Communities and Making Them Livable. Speech by Richard Moe to the National Governor's Association | 14 |
$1.40 |
| Wal-Mart
Sample "Community Resource Guide" |
7/1999 |
What
Wal-Mart hands out at public meetings: excerpts |
12 |
$1.20 |
| Economic
Impacts of Wal-Mart Supercenter in Clark County, NV |
9/1999 |
Costs of a Wal-Mart in Las Vegas outweighs benefits |
21 |
$2.10 |
| Wal-Mart Available Buildings |
2/1999 |
Typical list of 333 empty Wal-Marts from WM Realty |
10 |
$1.00 |
| The Sprawling of America |
1/1999 |
Federal policy is part of the problem, Can it be part of the solution. By Richard Moe, National Trust for Historic Preservation |
6 |
$1.00 |
| Impact
of Anticipated Wal-Mart on the Northern Neck, VA
|
1/1999 |
Tom Muller report from Kilmarnock, VA |
18 |
$1.80 |
| St.
Petersburg, FL Planning Commission Rejects Wal-Mart
|
11/1998 |
Planning report on why city staff rejected Wal-Mart |
20 |
$2.00 |
| Wayne,
PA Environmental Protection Zoning Ordinance
|
10/1998 |
Ordinance to restrict corp's with bad regulatory record |
5 |
$0.50 |
| Debunking the Myth of Sprawl's Inevitability |
09/1998 |
Speech by Constance Beaumont of the National Trust for Historic Preservation |
13 |
$1.30 |
| Economic Impacts: A sampler |
1997 |
My
own sampler from Iowa, VT, etc studies |
27 |
$2.70 |
| Home
Towns, Not Home Depot
|
1997 |
A Citizen's View of Home Depot |
16 |
$5.00 |
| Impact
of Wal-Mart Phenomenon on Rural Communities
|
9/1997 |
Ken Stone update from Iowa |
17 |
$1.70 |
| More
Wal-Mart PR Materials: San Leandro, CA |
9/1997 |
Example of materials Wal-Mart gives local officials and media |
15 |
$1.50 |
| Econ.
Impact of Proposed W-M on Woodstock, VA |
8/1997 |
Tom Muller study |
5 |
$1.00 |
| City
of Napa, CA Legal Opinion re: Home Depot |
8/1997 |
Why its OK to look at economic issues in the context of zoning |
3 |
$1.00 |
| Vermont
Supreme Court decision rejecting Wal-Mart in St.Albans
|
8/1997 |
Use of economic arguments to reject a W-M upheld |
14 |
$1.40 |
| Kmart vs. City of Westlake, OH |
7/1997 |
Use of comprehensive land use plan to reject superstore is upheld |
24 |
$2.40 |
| Wal-Mart 1997 Annual Report |
3/1997 |
What the company has to say about itself. |
40 |
$4.00 |
| Wal-Mart
Annual Report 2/1996
|
1996 |
The Company's view of itself |
30 |
$3.00 |
| Quality
Assurance Zoning Examples
|
1996 |
My own collection from several towns |
40 |
$4.00 |
| Growing
Smarter: Fighting Sprawl |
11/1996 |
Address of Richard Moe, National Trust for Hist. Preservation |
15 |
$1.50 |
| What
Happened When Wal-Mart Came to Town?
|
5/1996 |
Muller/Humstone report on econ. impacts in seven Iowa counties |
50 |
$5.00 |
| Taming
the Sprawlmart: Using An Antitrust Arsenal
|
1995 |
Tulane Law school lawyer on anti-trust, zoning issues |
52 |
$5.20 |
| Competing
with the Discount Mass Merchandisers
|
1995 |
Ken Stone's study of W-M impact on small Iowa towns, 1983-1993 |
25 |
$2.50 |
| Creating Communities of Place |
12/95 |
New Jersey Office of State Planning on big box retailing |
11 |
$1.10 |
| Wal-Mart
Comes to Washington State |
10/95 |
Impact statement by Coalition for a Better Washington |
26 |
$2.60 |
| Beyond
Sprawl
|
2/95 |
Bank of America on sprawl in California |
14 |
$1.40 |
| Comments
on the Draft Environmental Impact Statement/Proposed Commerce Green
Shopping
Plaza, E. Aurora, NY.
|
2/95 |
Useful economic analysis from Elizabeth Humstone & Thomas Muller; rebuts town study |
18 |
$1.80 |
| Big
Box Retailers, Power Centers, and Community Planning
|
1/95 |
Lancaster County Planning Commission: 4 level planning process |
5 |
$1.00 |
| Wal-Mart
Research--Residents for Responsible Growth, Lake Placid
|
1994 |
General info on Wal-Mart and examples of impact on local town |
18 |
$1.80 |
| St.
Albans, VT State Environmental Board Act 250 Decision
|
12/94 |
Decision rejecting Wal-Mart based on public cost v. benefit analysis |
62 |
$6.20 |
| Wal-Mart
Disinformation Campaign |
12/94 |
Samples from Wal-Mart's P.R. campaign in Ithaca, N.Y. |
19 |
$1.90 |
| Litigation in Sturbridge, MA |
12/94 |
Text of arguments filed in Superior Court. Uses town's zoning by-laws |
10 |
$1.00 |
| SLAPP
Suits
|
12/94 |
Duke Law School: on SLAPP suits |
12 |
$1.20 |
| Litigation
in Chestertown, MD
|
11/94 |
Historic Preservation Act |
6 |
$1.00 |
| Fort
Collins & Big Box Retailers (or: How Big Should the Box Be?)
|
10/94 |
prepared for City of Fort Collins |
20 |
$2.00 |
| Virginia/Shopping
Center Grounds for Denial |
10/94 |
National Legal Research Group cites precedents for zoning denials |
27 |
$2.70 |
| The
Impact of Superstores on Small Business: A Case Study of Wal-Mart
|
8/94 |
Testimony of Thomas Muller before House Small Business Comm. |
14 |
$1.40 |
| Gallatin,
Tennesee: Court case sends Wal-Mart permit back to local level
|
8/94 |
Petitioner's brief and other related items on supercenter zoning issues |
28 |
$2.80 |
| Moratorium
on Superstores
|
7/94 |
Moratorium in Fort Collins, CO. |
4 |
$1.00 |
| Wal-Mart Watch: The Stop List of Anti-Wal-Mart Campaign in Ithaca, N.Y. |
7/94 |
Wal-Mart newspaper articles divided in 5 areas, including business practices, labor, campaigns. |
5 |
$1.00 |
| How
Superstore Sprawl Can Harm Communities: And What Citizens Can Do About
It
|
6/94 |
Every coalition needs one of these. To order, call the National Trust for Historic Preservation at (202) 588-6023 |
120 |
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| Capping the Size of Buildings |
5/94 |
Copy of Resolution of Town Board in Skaneateles, N.Y. to limit shopping centers to 45,000 sq. ft. |
5 |
$1.00 |
| Wal-Mart's
1994 S.E.C. report
|
2/94 |
The Company's 1994 financials. |
21 |
$2.10 |
| Impact
of Proposed Wal-Mart on City of Concord, CA
|
2/94 |
Another econ. impact report |
24 |
$2.40 |
| The
Discount Retail Industry & Its Effect on Small Towns & Rural
Communities
|
1/94 |
Congressional Research Service reports on other studies |
21 |
$2.10 |
| Litigation
in Philadelphia
|
11/93 |
Rezoning fr. industrial to commerc. |
14 |
$1.40 |
| Phase
One Report: Retail Sales Impact of Proposed Wal-Mart on Franklin
County,
VT. |
10/93 |
Muller/Humstone report: thirteen findings critical of the econ. impact of Wal-Mart. Led to Act 250 rejection |
29 |
$2.90 |
| Wal-Mart
Stores, Inc. By-Laws
|
6/93 |
Info on Shareholder's Resolutions |
9 |
$1.00 |
| Fiscal
& Economic Impact Assessment of the Proposed Wal-Mart Development
|
4/93 |
Land Use, Inc. & RKG: Econ. Impact study done for Greenfield, Ma |
103 |
$10.30 |
| Effects
of a Megastore on Kent County, Maryland
|
2/93 |
Report by Coalition for the Preservation of Chestertown |
32 |
$3.20 |
| NBC
News Dateline
|
12/92 |
Wal-Mart and use of child labor |
22 |
$2.20 |
| Cape
Cod Commission Staff Report
|
11/92 |
Impact analysis of a Sam's Club |
19 |
$1.90 |
| The
New Retail Environment in Maine (Univ. of Maine)
|
10/92 |
Ken Stone, similar to Iowa studies |
4 |
$1.00 |
| The Mall (John Mullin) |
12/90 |
If a mall is not in a town's best interest, it should reject it. |
40 |
$4.00 |
| Legal Memo on Moratoriums, NY |
11/90 |
Legal issues in moratoriums based on NY State law |
12 |
$1.20 |
| Local
Government Control of Commercial Development, Wisconsin
|
11/89 |
Background on zoning reasons allowing control of big boxes |
29 |
$2.90 |
| The
Impact of Wal-Mart Stores on Other Business in Iowa (Ken Stone)
|
10/89 |
Small towns within 20 miles of a Wal-Mart lose 25% of net sales |
35 |
$3.50 |
| The
Fiscal Impact of Mall Development: More is Often Less
|
9/89 |
14 general points about malls & local impact (Armstrong & Mullin) |
7 |
$1.00 |
| Impact of Wal-Mart Stores on Firms in Competing Towns |
3/89 |
Wal-Mart gains are at the expense of other merchants in a Typical Midwestern State. (Ken Stone). |
14 |
$1.40 |
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