• The Wawa problem explained - click here
  
• Articles in the local papers on the Wawa problem - click here
  
• See community residents letters to the Star Democrat Editor by clicking here
  
• Would you want your community to have to look at this scene or want to look at this out your front door?
  
• Other Communities have had trouble with Wawa as well!
  Click here for Article 1 on this issue (this link will take you out of the Carroll's Addition Website, use your back button to return)
  Click here for Article 2 on this issue (this link will take you out of the Carroll's Addition Website, use your back button to return)
  Click here for Article 3 on this issue (this link will take you out of the Carroll's Addition Website, use your back button to return)
  Click here for Article 4 on this issue (this link will take you out of the Carroll's Addition Website, use your back button to return)
  
  A few quotes to hightlight from Article 4 above:
  
  "Ms. Dean, thanking the Members of Council for showing their support of the neighbors, advised “many of us are just shocked.” Ms. Dean stated she was at the Zoning Hearing Board meeting, and sitting behind her were a number of people who did not stop whispering at the meeting. Explaining that the people were not behaving as adults, Ms. Dean advised they were representatives for Wawa and she overheard them saying such things as “I think we can get out of building a privacy fence,” “we’ll tell them the tankers will pull in after midnight."
  
  "Stating that at the Zoning Hearing Board meeting it was suggested by a member of the Board that Wawa sit down with the neighbors and discuss how they might negotiate for a better situation with the neighbors, Ms. Dean said “they refused, point blank. We know that we have a fight ahead of us. But we intend to stand up for our neighborhood.”
  
  
• Quote from Wawa, Inc's Corporate Website:
  
  "Good Neighbors
  Among the founding principles of Wawa, one clearly stands out: our ongoing commitment to the communities where we do business. Our company and our associates continuously seek out opportunities to make us the best neighbor we can be. This is evidenced by corporate and regional efforts, and through our associates who make our "good neighbor" philosophy alive and well in all of our business communities. Like everyone else, our support is limited, but we do offer a variety of programs to our neighbors and communities."
  
  Why isn't Wawa working with us to address our concerns since our own Town of Easton has let us down? Given Wawa's above statement about helping commmunities where they have stores it would appear they would want to help us?
  
  Wawa is clearly not working with us and flat out rejected working with the us to address our conerns. The neighborhood proposed some additional landscaping to Wawa to make the back of the store more appealing since it would face the Carroll's Addition neighborhood beyond our #1 issue of the exit and entrance on Choptank Ave that would destroy our quiet neighborhood. The neighborhood even volunteered to help with some of landscaping. The neighborhood invited Wawa to a neighborhood meeting. Wawa did not even have enough respect to send a company official, but rather sent their lawyer who delivered the message that the company would not do anything other then what is in the plan. This is coming from a company that calls itself neighborhood friendly, that in their words, seeks out opportunities to make us the best neighbor we can be"? Yes, the Town of Easton let us down, but now we have to ask ourselves is Wawa the right company for our Town of Easton if they treat the neighborhood they will be a part of the way they are? It's nice to publish something on a company website, it's another to practice it. Clearly Wawa just likes writing words on websites to look good.

If you would like to become a member of the Carroll's Addition Community Association or are from the Town of Easton and would simoly like to support our cause, please email us and include your Name, Address, E-Mail address and phone number, and we will add you to our list. Thank you!

*AS OF October 9, 2005 we have obtained over 275+ signatures in support of our requests to both Wawa, Inc and The Town of Easton, Maryland