Posted on 04/29/2017 10:51:00 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Just a few miles off Route 22 in Allen Township, quarter horses gallop through a pasture and farmers tend to soil that will soon sprout corn. By summer, fields of wildflowers will bloom, giving motorists off the beaten path a pleasing dose of nature.
That scene will soon be harder to find as a township blanketed with farmland and green open space becomes the Lehigh Valley's epicenter for warehouse development. Plans are in the works for 6.5 million square feet of the kind of massive distribution centers that line Interstate 78 and Route 100 — imagine warehouses stretching across more than 100 football fields.
The $335 million FedEx Ground project under construction is just the start of what could be 13 cavernous warehouses built in the next few years. They will put thousands more cars and trucks in the township every day and millions of tax dollars into the Northampton Area School District. But the dizzying pace with which they're being proposed has even township officials worried about how Allen's slice of nature might disappear....
(Excerpt) Read more at mcall.com ...
“...But change was coming as people moved west from crowded New York and New Jersey,”
This is the stinker. The last thing we need in the Lehigh Valley is more liberal welfare parasites from New York and New Jersey. Keep them out!
It’s as though the only reason people and businesses exist to pay taxes.
Governments look upon people as sheep to be shorn.
Yeah, but the bit about how much taxes they can shear off the public is written into every news story. The writers are truly an arm of the government. Even they think in terms of how government benefits not the public.
Available land just a few miles north of Interstate 78, and just a few miles east of Interstate 476.
Buried way at bottom: 2300 jobs
The Urban writer should focus on the lack of green in the concrete jungles and fight each building permit where he lives.
Just continuing the trend to cover the country’s most valuable resource with concrete and buildings. At the same time the urban blight decries the travesty of modern agriculture and all the food it produces.
Great! More trucks on 78.
Think of all the head injuries they are preventing.
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