Speaking of Walmart and views. The town I live in has a longtime female mayor (whose husband may go to jail of the Nissan plant land scheme above) and she is adamant on protecting the beauty of her fiefdom. WQe have one interstate interchange and she refused to allow it unless it was aesthetically pleasing. Ended up holding her ground until the transportation dept spent an extra $1M for decorative brick/stone work. As far as all the commercial development, the Walmart had to be architecturally integrated with inconspicuos signage. This included the rear of the WM that faced the interstae. While you might htink her goal is noble, she's a terror and an extortionist.
I just represented a client in a zoning law dispute and won. She was trying to enforce one of her illegal zoning ordinances as a criminal matter. Needless to say I'm not on her xmas card list.
