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