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Opposition to warehouse sprawl is hardening in Warren County.

Hundreds of residents turned out to protest against a planned two and a half million square foot warehouse project, one of many that have popped up in the Garden State recently ensuring residents get their items faster.

But at what cost?

Ted Goldberg reports.

Right at the heart.

Of.

A proposed warehouse in Warren County has people hollering for honks that other folks aren't just raising noise levels.

They're also raising awareness for planning board meetings in White Township.

Last month we had 150 people here and for the meeting and I'm hoping we have more tonight because we're trying to make a statement to our planning board that the residents do not want this.

The issue is a proposal that would build about two and a half million square feet worth of warehouses on this vacant piece of farmland in White Township, near the intersection of Fall Rift Road and County, Route five, 19, about two miles south of Belvidere.

People who live there have put antique warehouse signs on their lawns, arguing the warehouses should go elsewhere.

They're inappropriately placed.

This is they're so far removed from the 78, taking in prime farmland, some of the best farmland in the state of New Jersey.

It's totally illogical.

It's ill placed.

It's halfway between the freeways with on a little country lane.

There's just no way it should be here.

There is no shoulder.

All the way down Route 519.

So if a truck blows the tires or has a lead or something, some kind of mechanical issue and ask to pull over, you're going to have five or six feet of the truck still in the driveway.

The land is owned by Jandal, a developer based in Pennsylvania that bought it four years ago.

The application has gone through some changes since then, including how trucks would enter and exit the warehouses.

The county has said you cannot modify Foul River Road, that's county road.

For him to have the access to the property, the warehouses.

He had was so sure he was going to use Foul River Road.

And the county said, look, you not using power of drugs.

So now he has to put it a road to just go and that will be another traffic light.

We know we're going to have to have traffic lights and that's all going to cost the taxpayers.

You would think in four years, four plus years of time, it might have occurred to them that access to property might be a forethought instead of four years down the road.

A couple hundred people packed into yesterday's planning board meeting where debate about the proposal was postponed.

This board in May promised us that the matter would be heard in June, and you can't keep putting this matter off.

I think it smacks of a conspiracy.

Even members of the planning board admitted frustration with the lack of movement on Jindal's proposal.

I'm just wondering, when is this vote going to take place?

I'll speak for myself.

Quite frankly, I'm getting sick of this.

It's taking up all our time.

This is due process and it has to go forward this way.

The board says Jindal hasn't sent a representative to a meeting all year and that if they don't send anybody to August's meeting, the proposal could be rejected and Jindal would have to start all over again.

Jindal did not respond to our request for comment on this story.

In White Township, I'm Ted Goldberg.

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