It was also made certain that everyone who wanted to speak had an opportunity, before others were allowed to speak again. Initial rules were set out by the board, intended to ensure that everyone had a chance to speak.Įach person’s commentary was capped at 3 minutes. The theme of last night’s 7pm meeting extension was to give residents a chance to speak about the project. Warehouse project for Harrison/Woolwich Twp to total 2.1 million sq ft Harrison Township JLUB MeetingĪs mentioned there was a prior meeting where it seems the developer gave their core project presentation. TWELVE MONTHS! You can read that article here, and Part 2 (which will give more details) is almost ready to publish. In fact, in a related but separate article at 42Freeway, I recently analyzed the last 12 months of warehouse projects for Gloucester and Salem counties and identified 42 projects consisting of over 70 buildings and 30+ million square feet of warehouse space. Over the fall the project had quickly become the most important topic in the town… as is the case in other communities for warehouse projects within their towns. The final JLUB vote did not take place until after 11pm, and it seemed that every resident was still in attendance at that time waiting to hear the outcome. He was the very first speaker and stated his father was the one who initially defined the land as a commercial region. In almost 3 hours of community comments only one person stated they wanted the warehouses approved. I think it’s a safe estimate to say had it not been raining, even the larger auditorium space would have overflowed. It was a very rainy night and the space was filled with several hundred residents who 99% of them appeared to be against the development. This meeting was a continuation of the approval process, which for last night was moved to a Harrison Township School auditorium so they would have the room needed to accommodate all of the residents, and also the time to allow residents to speak. A 2.1 million square foot planned multi-building warehouse project spanning across both Woolwich and Harrison Townships was denied last night by Harrison Township (Mullica Hill), in a long and sometimes raucous Joint Land Use Board meeting.
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