The population of Oroville is increasing. But we are not at 75,000 people quite yet. 75k people is a target for this area, I believe, as this is the number that stores will look at to decide to locate a store in an area. This is what I heard, so it may not be correct, but it seems to correspond to what I have seen.
Walmart has announced plans to expand to a Super center here in town. A few people here are afraid that this will curtail other stores from being here. I believe that will have a minimal effect, as we are close to the aforementioned magic number. When We are there, the stores will probably flood in.
New stores will bring with it new jobs, easier shopping, and less gas spent on going to another city to shop. Of coarse there are concerns regarding traffic and always environmental issues. But if we proceed with care, we should be able to minimize the impacts.
My thoughts on the environment is that we should not go overboard on mitigation, as there comes a point where we are damaging the environment rather than helping. Highway 149 was originally going to cost 50 million( not exact) then 80 million(ditto). But after the environmentalist were somewhat appeased, the cost ballooned up to 140 million(re-ditto). Now how much of the environment was destroyed, or animals hurt to get that extra 60 million? It had to come from somewhere.
Ok, rant over.
Well as You can imagine, I would like to be able to go to Target, Gottchalks, Mervins, Kohls, Circuit City , and Best Buy without filling up my tank, plus to get to this point, I have to sell more homes! So I am all for the new stores to be coming to our city.
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