Mayor and Council, in you we trust

To determine, if or if not, we must

Amend our official community plan

I’m here to ask you, to take a stand

 

Against a future of big box stuff

Where Cheap and plenty is never enough

 

To change a city and the future entrust

To big corporations with power and bucks

Who’ll pave over the landscape, and banish the ducks?

 

But Joking aside. The truth is unjust

Mass consumerism is killing us.

Check the market, bust, boom, bust
Check the weather.

Has the globe warmed enough?

 

But really, who are we

And what makes us, us?

A town full of stores

And Stores full of stuff?

 

This town is made up of so much more

Its people and places and memories galore.

Its hillside and green space, a lake AND a shore.

 

And every voice matters

No matter how small.

Please don’t pave the land.
Please don’t build this mall.