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Walmart opponents file lawsuit
Opponents of the planned Wal-Mart in Orange County file a lawsuit.
SPECIAL SECTION:Wilderness battle rages once more
Date published: 9/23/2009
By Clint Schemmer Opponents of the Walmart Supercenter planned on the Wilderness battlefield are mounting a legal challenge against the project. This afternoon in Orange County Circuit Court, a lawsuit is to be filed on behalf of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, Friends of Wilderness Battlefield, and residents of Orange and Spotsylvania counties. The plaintiffs will contest the Orange supervisors’ Aug. 25 decision granting a special-use permit for a 240,000-square-foot retail development near the eastern-Orange entrance to Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Military Park. The 138,000-square-foot Walmart would anchor the center, which is on the Wilderness battlefield. Historians consider the battlefield, where armies led by Robert E. Lee and Ulysses S. Grant first clashed 145 years ago, one of the nation's most endangered Civil War sites. The legal challenge contends the supervisors' 4-1 decision was "flawed in numerous respects.”
Read more stories about Orange Date published: 9/23/2009
Really
(posted by
Gaulish
, Oct. 1, 2009 9:26 am)
Okay a Wal-mart will go up on route 3. Last I checked a Sheetz, ABC Store, 7-11, and a 5000 house community is there. Complian all you want about the battlefield but if you allow a giant community to already spring up near it why not a Wal-Mart. I am a navy vet and I understand the need to preserve the battlefield. A Walmart will offer over 500 jobs to locals in orange. I believe Orange needs to be supersized. Culpeper supersized now I only shop there. Bring shopping to Orange so I can save gas.
And we can honor what they fought for
(posted by
blitzburgh
, Sep. 24, 2009 1:35 pm)
Private property rights...this is Virginia fella, home of Washington, Jefferson and Madison. How dare the federal govt. or any preservation group try to dictate to a private land owner, that is acting within his constitutional rights, what to do with his private property.
sons of confederate veterans
(posted by
billmoney
, Sep. 24, 2009 11:46 am)
Since my ancestors are dead I'll have to speak for them.You don't hear the thunderous rour of battle.You don't hear the screams of the dying.You don't hear our officers yelling or our bugle calls.You don't hear the battle that raged.You don't see our grey clad dead or our tattered banners.But, you can remember and honor us.
What a shame...
(posted by
WalterH
, Sep. 24, 2009 7:25 am)
We could have had a Wal-mart so easily, if the likes of Johnson and Burkett had had the brains to work with oppoents and find another site. Instead, they dug in their heels, parrotted Wal-mart's drivel, and rammed the vote through without paying attention to their own citizens. It is no wonder our county is a laughing stock in the state.
It ain't over....
(posted by
navyorchid
, Sep. 23, 2009 9:53 pm)
and I hope they win their battle in court or tie up WalMart for years. I don't believe any of the "survey" statistics that the BOS presented as facts supporting WalMart because I have never received a survey, phone or written, and own two homes within 10 miles of the proposed site. If opponents outnumbered the supporters at public meetings and the BOS calls a second planning meeting because the first didn't go in the direction they wanted, I think something smells...and it smells bad!
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