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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: coug who wrote (65064)12/4/1999 8:44:00 PM
From: Grainne  Read Replies (2) of 108807
 
<I have mixed emotions on the Starbucks/Walmart issue. By having centralized shopping there is less environmental degradation..>

I'm not sure about your logic here. The downtown areas of towns all over America offered centralized shopping, because stores were clustered there which met all the needs of shoppers, from clothing to drugs to shoe repairs to groceries. Driving to the far edges of the town to shop at WalMart would seem to me to create environmental degradation because it is usually agricultural land that is taken out of use to build the store, and arguably more gasoline is used in getting to far-flung stores.

I do agree with you about high-rise developments close to transportation and work being a better kind of development than suburban/rural sprawl. In northern California, we are gobbling up prime agricultural land (the Central Valley, the nation's salad bowl) as tract housing is built on it to house workers in our expanding technology industry.
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