Article: Proposed Wal-Mart Supercenter Draws 250 to Arlington, Texas, Zoning Meeting.(Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News)

May 18--ARLINGTON, Texas--It's not a landfill and it's not a prison, but no one wants one in their backyard.

Wal-Mart that is.

Especially not the 250 people who showed up at last night's Planning and Zoning Commission meeting to protest a proposal for a 208,000-square-foot Wal-Mart Supercenter on 29 wooded acres on the corner of U.S. 287 and Little Road.

The commission carried over the agenda item to the July 5 meeting in order to review a traffic study of the area being conducted by Wal-Mart administrators.

Many of those who attended the meeting took turns at the microphone to criticize the retail giant.

Some said Wal-Marts ...

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