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Not In Kansas Anymore

Posted by: Abhijeet Chavan
Thanks to: Dan Tasman
22 October 2000 - 2:00am

The proposed Wonderful World of Oz is Greater Kansas City's latest big battle over suburban sprawl.

"Developers...envision an Emerald City...an $861 million theme park complexpatterned after ''The Wizard of Oz'' that could attract 3.2million people a year to this rural area 25 miles west of Kansas City.'There's nothing wonderful about the "Wonderful World of Oz,' '' said Bill Sheldon, who heads a group opposed to theproject called TOTO (Taxpayers Opposed To Oz). "

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Source: The Cincinnati Post, October 13, 2000
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