Dear Editor:
I don’t want a new Super Wal-Mart in my town of Gilroy.
Dear Editor:
I don’t want a new Super Wal-Mart in my town of Gilroy.
If the planning commission keeps approving more growth, we will be like our neighbors in San Jose. I moved from there 30 years ago to get away from the big city. Our city planners have approved building permits that haven’t even started being built and we have no idea what that growth might do with the negative traffic congestion and the environmental impact. Surely a Super Wal-Mart will only add to the negative effects of all this.
Say NO to a growth with a company with substandard health and welfare care, and salaries.
According to the findings from analysis by Rea & Parker Research, supercenters entering San Diego market were:
• Fiscal benefits, in the form of sales and property taxes, are frequently less than originally expected and are not likely to cover the costs of traffic, police, fire protection, among others.
• The net cost of these public services for supercenters exceed $700,000 per year.
• Local small stores which surround supermarkets in neighborhood shopping centers (Safeway, P.W., Nob Hill) depend upon the supermarkets’ drawing power. Economic harm to or closure of supermarkets in favor of a supercenters will do significant financial damage to these smaller, local stores, causing negative fiscal impacts and an increased potential for urban decay and BLIGHT.
Say NO to a super Wal-Mart.
Connie Gallegos, Gilroy
Submitted Tuesday, Feb. 18 to ed****@************ch.com
