[CPEO-BIF] Wal-Mart, Johnson City, New York

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Board OKs Johnson City Wal-Mart site plan
State agency must still approve cleanup proposal

By Eric Reinagel
Binghamton Press & Sun-Bulletin (NY)
October 24, 2007

JOHNSON CITY -- Village approvals for the controversial Wal-Mart project 
on Lester Avenue are all but complete, although a state agency has yet 
to approve a cleanup plan for the brownfield site where the store would 
be built.

The Johnson City Planning Board approved the Vestal-based Newman 
Development Group's final site plan on Tuesday for the 
132,000-square-foot Wal-Mart Supercenter at 14 Lester Ave., the former 
Endicott Johnson Ranger Paracord site.

Only 28 people attended the Tuesday meeting, and the board's action drew 
applause. Five people spoke against the project, citing concerns about 
traffic, flooding and a negative economic impact on village businesses.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.pressconnects.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071024/BUSINESS/710240353/1043/stbn

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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