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Just say no: Our Town governments are addicted to ever increasing revenue and actively compete for sales tax revenue between the various taxing entities. We need to wake up and recognize our local Town "staff" are working full time to increase revenue and increase the size of budgets to enrich themselves (bigger budgets & more employees = more responsibility = $$$ with a bigger paycheck = bigger retirement; just look at the Carefree Town Administrator’s retirement package and the $90,000+ benefits—starting salary of the replacement Administrator) while the "essence" of the Cave Creek and Carefree’s lifestyle erodes at an ever accelerated pace.
Will we sell our souls to the devil Wal-Mart? You bet we will! We would sell our mothers for the almighty buck.
While Creekers profess to want to remain rural, small town, open space, it will be OK as long as it's not near my house.
Let's put the Wal-Mart right in the center of town or up on School House Rd. at least that will bring some people into town.
I agree 1000% with Concerned resident. They don't even have cameras in the parking lots until they hear about the employees trying unionize, just empty camera shells. Its a proven fact that when Walmart opens up crime rates go up. They don't care about our safety just their merchandise. Why is it that workers in the European Walmarts get heath and dental and 3 weeks paid vacation a year?? Its because they have strong unions over there and they wont let their workers get exploited like they do to us here. The reason this happens is because Walmart spends millions of dollars for lobbyists to go to Washington to line the pockets of politicians. Stop supporting Walmart and their corporate greed! They are the largest company in the world and a prime example of why America has become the worlds consumer. They push their suppliers to outsource our industries over seas and is not the American company they used to be. People use the excuse they have great prices and it saves me money but at what cost?? Almost everything in Walmart is made in China and for every 1 job created at Walmart there was 3 to 4 jobs before that. People please support your local economy and stop shopping Walmart and making China rich.
Is no one concerned about the crime rate increase associated when wal-mart is built in a community? What about the small shops around town? Do we just thin them out, and if we do that will our “rustic town” become a “ghost town”? How many people stopped coming around after just a noise ordinance, what will happen when those shops shut down that do bring people around (I’m not complaining, just giving an example)? Is the community that concerned about tax revenue that they feel the need to destroy the friendly atmosphere of where we live and raise our families? How many towns don’t even see the benefits of the tax revenue from them, and will that money just go to fighting the additional crime associated with wal-mart? I’m a single dad trying to raise my 2yr old son in a decent area with morals and values. I value a clean town, a safe town, and a friendly town. I appreciate good customer service I get from “mom and pop” shops. When’s the last time you consistently received good customer service from Lowes or Home Depot… expect a little worse from wal-mart. Plainly speaking…I am one resident that values our town who will say “NO-mart”. (And yes, I left the “w” and “m” lowercase on purpose)
And what lesson did we learn from Home Depot? They built where they did because the owner of their chosen property refused to sell to them, choosing to lease the land instead. There wasn't anything that 'we' did to cause that.
Perhaps big boxes can go onto the land that is currently zoned for it, rather than where the land is zoned residential and would require the city to give them a vast increase in property value by upzoning.
Mr. Smith above subscribes to "tax and spend" government philosophy. Why must "we" "generate sales tax"? So that a handful of politicians have extra cash to play with? He whines about the loss of Home Depot sales tax revenue. Home Depot bothers nobody and is set far back on the south side of Carefree Highway along with a lot of other businesses. Almost nobody living in Cave Creek is any where near HD. Those who wants to destroy the character of Cave Creek to further their own goals have taken over the CC town council. But they still have to contend with public opinion in the form of a zoning referendum. The current Snooze News poll shows 71% against HD. The public will have the final say on HD.
Neighbors won't like it. But we must host major stores to generate sales taxes.
We learned the Home Depot lesson. Big boxes are coming whether we like it or not. Other cities get the money, we get the traffic and eyesores. Those big orange letters might not be staring us in the face if we had allowed Home Depot in and negotiated a lower profile like that of Lowe's.
In today's economy -- with building permit income dwindling -- we must be realistic.
-- Greg Smith