摘要：Large discount retail stores (or “big box” stores)
generate both costs and benefits to local communities
that are unevenly distributed across local employees,
shoppers, other businesses and government. While
these impacts affect communities across the urbanrural
spectrum, the hardest hit communities are often
rural towns that struggle to retain a mainstreet retail
base. States can mitigate many of the negative impacts
on local communities by implementing sound planning,
zoning and design standards that strengthen
local priorities and provide a means for assessing the
infrastructure, environmental and fiscal impacts of
large retail development.
