Local and New England Efforts
Area Impact Source Documents
Latest Hadley Traffic Study - 07/22/05 (8kb PDF)
Lowe's Developer Traffic Estimate Memo (276kb PDF)
Home Depot Traffic Increases (132kb PDF)
Retail Big Box Income vs. Costs (an estimate) (8kb PDF)
Lowes Rezoning Acreage (432kb PDF)
Lowes Maximum Site Plan (76kb PDF)
Proposed Economic Development Overlay District (372kb PDF)
Key studies regarding Wal-Mart and big-box community impacts
Hadley Neighbors for Sensible Development
Hadley Neighbors is the place
to go to tune in to what's going on in town. While StopSprawlMart.org
works on a regional level, Hadley
Neighbors does a great job organizing Hadley residents and tracking
very local developments as they happen.
www.hadleyneighbors.org
No Way Wal-Mart
No Way Wal-Mart is another
local Hadley movement with a special emphasis on the planned Wal-Mart
gas station and the threat that Wal-Mart poses to the abutting Rail
Trail.
www.nowaywalmart.com
Massachusetts Zoning Reform Working Group
MA has some of the most regressive
and sprawl-friendly state laws in the country. State legislators, municipal
officials, planners, environmental and housing advocates, and interested
citizens have joined together to sponsor legislation to update state
statutes. This bill is called the Massachusetts Land Use Reform Act
(MLURA).
The Zoning Reform
Working Group (ZRWG)
National Resources
WalmartWatch.com
WalmartWatch.com is an excellent
sorurce for daily headlines and other info. Consider getting involved
in their upcoming "High Expectations Week" (November 13-19).
www.walmartwatch.com
WakeUpWalmart.com
WakeUpWalmart.com is a project
of the United Commercial Food Workers Union. They have some great organizing
tools available on their site.
www.wakeupwalmart.com
Sprawl-Busters.com
While Sprawl-Busters.com's
focus is national, it is run by our local hero, Al Norman. Al successfully
fought Wal-Mart in Greenfield, and we hope he will help save the Valley
one more time. We use Sprawl-Buster's Newsflash on our main page.
www.sprawl-busters.com
New Rules Project
Why New Rules? Because the old ones don't work
any longer. They undermine local economies, subvert democracy, weaken
our sense of community, and ignore the costs of our decisions on the
next generation. The Institute for Local Self-Reliance (ILSR) proposes
a set of new rules that builds community by supporting humanly scaled
politics and economics
www.hometownadvantage.org
