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Originally Posted by zacheryjensen
There is no reason that it is illegal, every single city in the USA practices Zoning and Wal-mart is a large scale store which nearly always has special zoning requirements due to the massive impact on local business and ecology.
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I don't know. Can't think of *anywhere* that I've heard of a *Walmart* zoning designation. Don't think it would be legal, but that depends on the definition.
As I mentioned, places have turned down zoning requests made by Walmart-but they've based that, not on the request being made by Walmart, but on legally admissible factors. Turning down a zoning request because it's made by Walmart is, IMO, illegal.
Walmart's impact on local business & 'ecology' isn't any different than KMart's, Target's, Sam's Club (whoops-that's Walmart by another name, isn't it?), or Kroger's. All are large 'chain' stores that have massive impacts on local businesses and 'ecology'. (I think you mean economy, but whatever-maybe you're actually talking about pollution, building a giant parking lot, etc.)
Understand that my comment was on DaleDe's statement that some communities would block a Walmart store when they'd approve the request by Target or Kmart. IMO, such an action would be illegal. Deny all the chain stores, sure-they can get away with that (depending on why they do it), but deny one & approve others? They need more reason than the name of the requesting company on which to base their denial.