Decision on Wal-Mart plan expected in June

Posted on Friday, May. 13, 2005


	J. Pat Carter/AP

SIGN OF OPPOSITION: Monarch Lake residents let their feelings be know about proposed Wal-Mart.

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Decision on Wal-Mart

plan expected in June

A proposal to build a Super Wal-Mart in Miramar will go before city commissioners next month with a recommendation that it be rejected.

The nation's largest retailer is asking the city to rezone a site at Flamingo Road and Miramar Parkway from ''rural'' to ''community business'' use, so the company can build one of its supercenters.

At more than 200,000 square feet, the supercenter would have a grocery store, a lube area, a liquor store and a garden shop.

After much community opposition to the project, particularly in the adjoining Monarch Lakes development, Miramar's planning and zoning board voted this week to recommend denying the change. The advisory boards opinion is then sent to commissioners, who vote on whether or not to grant the change.

Commissioners contacted Thursday said they could not comment on how they might vote because they said the rezoning hearing would be considered ''quasi-judicial,'' meaning that they must decide based on facts presented to them that evening.

The request is scheduled to go before the commission at 7 p.m. on June 15 at City Hall, 2300 Civic Center Place.

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