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Fighting back against Walmart remodels

Riverotterr

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We have a few Walmarts in the city I work for, and they've started coming in with their remodeled interiors and exterior paint jobs. Problem is, one of these Walmarts is in a zone district overlay with things like "compatible with existing materials and colors" as their regulations. They keep pushing back and I'm worried they'll because "big corporate entity brings big sales tax revenue to the city".

Has anyone had success getting to a compromise with Walmart as an applicant to get them to NOT paint their giant building into a grey box?

Here's what they're roughly repainting across the country - sad millennial gray vs a variety of generally earthy tones on the old stores:
 

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Have you defined what is "compatible?" Do you have a color sheet or something objective to refer to?
Nope our codes and the overlay standards are subjective :daydream: we just give "strategies" to "achieve compatibility" and use the terms consistent/compatible/complementary haha.
 
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