Wal-Mart Public Hearing Canceled

Last night's long anticipated county hearing on the proposed Wal-Mart super center site on the Wilderness Battlefield in Virginia was canceled. Orange County officials sent out a notice late yesterday saying advertisements for an earlier Planning Commission hearing on the same subject had been legally inadequate and both meetings would be re-advertised and rescheduled.

Monday's meeting was seen as the culmination of a year-long effort by preservation organizations, including the Civil War Preservation Trust, to influence the vote of the Board of Supervisors' five members who recently appeared to favor the Wal-Mart plan by a 3-2 margin.

By Linda Wheeler  |  July 28, 2009; 7:50 AM ET
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