Merced Stop Wal-Mart Action Team

Documents from the Stop Wal-Mart Action Team

• Read and distribute our factsheet about the proposed distribution center's health impacts to Merced residents

• Our flyer about big-rig truck traffic in Southeast Merced that's already in violation of City and State laws. 

• Print out SWAT's petition against the distribution center that over 4,000 Merced residents have signed

• Check out our factsheet about how the distribution center and poor air quality impact agriculture

• "The Weight of the Air" detailed study about the distribution center's air quality impacts
  

2007

June 11 Comments on the South Merced Specific Plan Draft EIR. Read the City's response here. 

August 6 Letter to then-Councilman Rick Osorio about Riverside, California's health-protective general plan. 

September 17 Golden Valley High School poetry contest winners read their entries to City Council. Read the poems here!

2008

April 25 Kibby Rd. abandonment violations letter. The City has yet to respond.

May 8 City of Merced general plan comments and alternative air quality section. The City is currently writing the final draft of its updated General Plan. 

June 2 Comment letter on Lyons-owned University Industrial Park Tentative Subdivision Map. The Planning Commission withdrew the item for further study.

July 7 Comment letter on the Lyons request for a permanent encroachment permit to build an irrigation and drainage pipeline adjacent to the distribution center site. Sadly, City Council voted 6-1 to approve the encroachment permit despite clear evidence that the item violated City Municipal Code and the California Environmental Quality Act.

August 21 Comment letter on the Atwater-Merced Expressway Final Environmental Impact Report argues that the FEIR is deficient and must be recirculated because it doesn't analyze the climate change impact of increased traffic and conflicts with policies in the City of Merced General Plan. The Atwater Elementary School District also submitted a letter about their students' air quality and quality of life concerns if the AME passes 30 feet from a planned elementary school. 

Related documents

• Wal-Mart distribution center Notice of Preparation describing areas to be studied in the environmental impact report

• The Weaver Union School District's comments and related correspondence on the Wal-Mart Notice of Preparation.

• The San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District's comments on the Wal-Mart Notice of Preparation.

• The Lyons Annexation development agreement and mitigation measures apply to the distribution center site.