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Fri, Feb 17 2006
Watsonville City Council Tells Monterey County To Shun Big Box Stores
The Watsonville City Council is hoping to increase its control over land use in surrounding areas—even areas in adjacent counties. Tuesday night the Council voted to call for Wal-Mart to change its business practices and also voted to request that Monterey County ban superstores outside urban areas. (You can read a copy of the resolution here.) Watsonville is not even in Monterey County, but is instead located at the southern edge of Santa Cruz County. Two Council members, Dale Skillicorn and Judy Doering-Nielson, voted against the resolution.
There's a certain irony in the Council trying to pressure a neighboring county to restrict development when Watsonville continues to push for development into rural, unincorporated areas of its own home county.
posted at: 06:49 | category: /Politics | link to this entry
The Watsonville City Council is hoping to increase its control over land use in surrounding areas—even areas in adjacent counties. Tuesday night the Council voted to call for Wal-Mart to change its business practices and also voted to request that Monterey County ban superstores outside urban areas. (You can read a copy of the resolution here.) Watsonville is not even in Monterey County, but is instead located at the southern edge of Santa Cruz County. Two Council members, Dale Skillicorn and Judy Doering-Nielson, voted against the resolution.
There's a certain irony in the Council trying to pressure a neighboring county to restrict development when Watsonville continues to push for development into rural, unincorporated areas of its own home county.
posted at: 06:49 | category: /Politics | link to this entry
