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ous slides of 7-Elevens, Taco Bells and Arbys that were built to fit into their surroundings. He showed slides of canopies over gas stations built to look like bam roofs not UFOs, storage units resembling old bams, cellular telephone towers that look exactly like trees (something to consider when 200,000 new towers are going up around the country).
Tbwns can use permits as a way of forcing companies to change their architecture, McMahon said. This is being done all over Virginia. Richmond assigned conditional use status that required a special use permit for a drive through. When a new McDonald’s came along, the city said it would talk about a drivethrough when McDonald’s talked about architecture. They built a two-story colonial building that even hid the air-conditioning unit. The tiny town of Fairfield in Rockbridge County required McDonald’s to build a building resembling a home with a front porch.
McMahon is co-author of the book “Balancing Nature and Commerce in Gateway Communities.” The conservation fund is a national non-profit land and water conservation organization headquartered in Arlington with offices in 12 cities around the country. They do two things: purchase and
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