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Originally Posted by 1overcosc
Finally... I grew up in Embrun and one of the things that still amazes me is how little retail Embrun-Russell has despite its relatively large population. I mean, some 15,000 people between the two of them.. yet, for example, no Walmart, no McDonalds, no Staples, no full size grocery store, only one Tim Hortons... by contrast places like Carleton Place and Kemptville have a lot more than that despite having similar populations.
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There's no provision for big box retail in the Russell Township official plan. Protecting the viability of the village cores is important, so somebody like Walmart doesn't show up and put all the existing small businesses out of business. You can see the village maps at the end of this PDF:
http://www.russell.ca/UserFiles/Servers/...ss/Russell_OfficialPlan_October_2010.pdf
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