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eise i say, rememoer tms, 11 you accept off the shelf corporate cookie cutter architecture, you will get that every time. If you insist on something better, you’ll get that every time,” he said. He said that every McDonald’s doesn’t have to look like every other McDonald’s, and added, “Should buildings in Rappahannock County look like buildings in New Jersey?”
McMahon said that in 1970 McDonald’s Corporation bought a historic house in Freeport, Me. built in 1830 and McDonald’s planned on demolishing the building. The town wanted the building restored. McDonald’s took the town to court twice, and the town won. Three years later the building appeared in McDonald’s annual report as an example of their good community stewardship, McMahon said. He added that Rappahannock has no legal way to keep a McDonald’s out of this county. “Are you going to be ready for them or not? Do you want this to be suburbia?” he asked.
He said successful planning is happening all over the world, but only in those communities that are savvy enough to insist on it. McMahon showed numer
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