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City can't ban Walmart RV parking

It's not often one hears about something cool that Walmart does, but once I started looking into the RV lifestyle, I soon found out that Walmart has a company-wide policy of allowing RVers to spend a night in a store parking lot for free. It seems that Walmart founder Sam Walton was a big RVer, and the policy was his doing. Very cool.

Apparently some in Whitehorse, Yukon, don't see it as I do.

Particularly this whiner:

After the councillors spoke about Preston’s report, RV park owner Chuck MacKenzie stood up and said now that he sees where council is going on this issue, he wants a refund for 16 years’ worth of city taxes and business licences because the city is not doing its job right.
“I would like a cheque Monday morning,” he said before sitting.

City can’t curtail RV parking, lawyer says

by Jason Small
A Whitehorse Star Archive story originally published August 20, 2003

If the city wants to prevent RVs from camping in Wal-Mart’s parking lot without the store’s permission, it will have to get the territorial government to change a law.

Local lawyer Tim Preston told city council at last night’s meeting that the only way it could prevent people from parking overnight at Wal-Mart without a request by the store to do so would be to ask the territorial government to change the Motor Vehicles Act.

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