Such heavy vehicles increasingly using our softer township back roads will require much more expensive, frequent maintenance and repair at full Maxatawny tax payer expense.
Added mega-warehouse traffic congestion will impact public safety, making it more likely taxpayers will face big tax increases to re-establish a full-time police force. The impervious surface in large scale projects provides significant run off onto and across adjacent properties with those neighbors impacted without compensation. Residents will bear the impacts of air, light, and noise pollution.
The testimony in the warehouse hearings makes clear these huge projects will largely obliterate the prime agricultural soils, the historic buildings, the archeology, realign public roadways – in short a near complete erasure of the rural landscape present on these tracts today.