Mercer County set to review as pleas continue for regional oversight
By Jon Hurdle, Contributing Writer, NJ Spotlight
A bitterly contested plan to build one of New Jersey’s biggest warehouse complexes now goes before Mercer County officials who are already echoing community concerns that the project will generate too much truck traffic.
West Windsor’s planning board approved the project on June 29. But now, it needs approval from the county planning board, which would review any impact on stormwater and traffic. And those issues are being flagged by the county executive, Brian Hughes, as problematic.
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“I think the project is far too large for the state and county roads that it appears to be planning on using,” Hughes told NJ Spotlight News. “I wish West Windsor had come to us before and said, ‘What do you think?’ I would have told them there’s too much traffic on Clarksville Road, there’s going to be too much traffic on Route 1.”
Hughes said the proposed seven warehouses totaling 5.5 million square feet would be much bigger than an existing warehouse complex in Robbinsville and would lack that complex’s easy access to Interstate 295. “This, unfortunately, does not have that same sort of access, and so that’s what worries me a little bit,” Hughes said.
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