“The planning commission has seen a dreary procession of warehouse projects for years, with no end in sight”. “We’ve been stamping out warehouses,” Zebrowski said. “This issue is here and apparently it’s here to stay. If we don’t manage this, we have a questionable future…

By John Best / Lehigh Valley Live: Traffic from over 1 million square feet of new warehouse space in the Slate Belt is a major concern for local roads that have trouble handling existing traffic. That belief was expressed by people who spoke at Wednesday night’s Plainfield…

The last thing Lehigh Valley needs is more warehouses bringing more truck traffic with their toxic diesel exhaust fumes. There have been many studies done and published documenting the harmful effects of diesel exhaust fumes. For example see, “Diesel Exhaust and Cancer”: “Health concerns about…

As we previously mentioned in a News posting on the website, we filed a FOIL / RTK request with East Allen Township for “The “Draft Weaversville Curve Study” (item #3 under Supervisors Business on the meeting agenda) presented and discussed at the Board of Supervisors’ public…

From the EAST ALLEN TOWNSHIP, NORTHAMPTON COUNTY website: NOTICE is hereby made that the East Allen Township Board of Supervisors has been provided with Findings of Fact by the parties involved in the Rock Lehigh Valley Curative Amendment. It is the intent of the Board…

As we previously mentioned in a News posting on the website, we filed a FOIL / RTK request with East Allen Township for “The “Draft Weaversville Curve Study” (item #3 under Supervisors Business on the meeting agenda) presented and discussed at the Board of Supervisors’ public…

“The East Allen Township Board of Supervisors met on Thursday, August 26 to discuss the Weaversville Road curve realignment and the township’s involvement in road hazards”. https://homenewspa.com/2021/09/01/east-allen-township-addresses-road-hazards-potential-weaversville-road-project/?fbclid=IwAR3DFMVlF3F7sVeVu8UwRFjxcvSKV5QBwzCcOyINhe3f6K-wmhFESIRZJmo  

The East Allen Board of Supervisors held a public meeting on August 26, 2021, at 7 P.M.. One of the items presented and discussed at the public meeting was “Discussion on the Draft Weaversville Road Curve Study”. They presented different scenarios for the work that…

A quote included in a WFMZ 69 NEWS article by Jeff Ward and Justin Backover pretty much succinctly sums up the situation when it comes to The Lehigh Valley plague of warehouses/logistics centers: “This proposal is a disaster for the quality of life in the Lehigh Valley,”…

During the August 11 East Allen Township Board of Supervisors meeting, supervisors rejected a waiver for Airport Road Lot 1 in a 2-2 vote. In other news, supervisors debated the demolition of the old stone farmhouse that sits at the corner of Weaversville Road and…

“PennEast Pipeline is backing off plans – for now – to seize land for a massive natural gas pipeline through our area”. https://www.wfmz.com/news/area/pennsylvania/penneast-pipeline-dropping-eminent-domain-proceedings-against-70-pa-property-owners/article_4aff09f8-fadf-11eb-9489-0fa79437ca22.html  

Eminent domain gives the government the authority to take private property for public use, so long as the government provides “just compensation”. Below are links to the Pennsylvania State eminent domain law and to an eminent domain “Property Owner’s Guide”. https://www.legis.state.pa.us/WU01/LI/LI/CT/HTM/26/26.HTM https://pstrust.org/docs/EMINENTDOMAINPennsylvania.pdf