Posted on 08/20/2003 6:00:04 AM PDT by Born Conservative
That's what township Supervisor Tony Attardo says he is told.
"If anybody makes any (zoning) applications up there, we'll have our good eye on it," Attardo said. But supervisors, he said, are bound by township zoning laws - if modular housing is allowed by ordinance, he said, then T.J. Maxx has the right to build.
Laborers are paid $6.50 to start at the million square-foot warehouse, in the Grimes Industrial Park. Supervisors said they were promised that the jobs would pay at least $8, with warehouse supervisors getting at least $13.
T.J. Maxx spokeswoman Sherry Lang wouldn't discuss company housing, instead sticking to a written statement issued last week. And Attardo himself said the talk of housing at the warehouse, in the Grimes Industrial Park, is "scuttlebutt."
Attardo said he's been told by a man who lives near the warehouse that surveyors have been at work near the plant. Attardo said he would endorse an ordinance limiting how many unrelated people can live under the same roof, but he wasn't sure how authorities would disprove claims of people who claim to be related.
Attardo wouldn't say if he or other authorities have been in touch with the federal Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services, the successor to the Immigration and Naturalization Service.
"I think you've got a little situation here of wait and see," Attardo said.
A spokesman in Philadelphia's federal immigration office, which is responsible for Northeastern Pennsylvania, did not return a telephone call seeking comment.
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