Impassioned pleas and accusations of money-mongering failed to alter the course of the proposed Valley Logistics Park, a controversial warehouse project in Maxatawny Township.
When it came right down to it, the township supervisors conditional approval Wednesday of a preliminary plan on the project was pretty much a matter of law.
Though her explanation was interrupted by shouts from residents opposed to the project, township solicitor Elizabeth A. Magovern explained that the nearly 300-acre site was zoned light industrial and the developer had complied with all relative township ordinances.
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âWe canât just simply say to Duke Realty that we donât like you bringing warehouses into an area zoned industrial for 20 years,â she said. âThis is a corridor zoned industrial by a previous board of township supervisors.â