Politics from the Palouse to Puget Sound

Monday, February 06, 2006

The PARD Study

What PARD has called for over the past year is a full, independent, careful study of he likely impact of a super center, done by a competent, objective firm – not chosen by PARD, not chosen by Wal-Mart, but agreed to by all parties. When such a real study is done, we can return to the discussion of what such a store will do for or to Pullman.

T.V. Reed, Pullman


At least, now we know that with or without a study PARD will not stop their appeals. Therefore the idea of a study is worthless. Besides, once they got their study we found via the letter to the editor that it is not good enough. Wal-Mart was supposed to pay for it, but now because Wal-Mart paid for it, it is invalid.

Also, it has been admitted that downtown is no longer the issue, as businesses on Bishop Blvd and Grand will now be hurt. I guess PARD has finally admitted that Wal-Mart will not hurt the downtown, like we have been told for so long.

Lastly, information used by the study could be found on the Internet. I am not sure what the point of that statement was, but looking into PARD's material, we find much of the information is found on the Internet.

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2 comments:

April E. Coggins said...

It's important to remember that a fiscal impact study is not a building requirement. PARD coninues to use the study as a red herring. They may as well have asked for a study about Wal-Mart's impact on child development. It is entirely inappropriate and irrelevant to the site plan and SEPA.

Unknown said...

Wal-Mart did give them what they want. If you look under Links at the right, click on "Economic & Fiscal Impacts of A Wal-Mart Supercenter in Pullman, Washington"

PARD is never going to be happy until the Da Vinci Code reveals that Sam Walton was the Anti-Christ.