New Jersey bill, backed by key leader, seeks more local input on warehouse growth State Senate majority leader’s legislation would require communities near a proposed warehouse to have input but no veto power Photo: Jim Allen/FreightWaves The growing footprint of warehouses in New Jersey — which is hardly alone in adding massive amounts of logistics space — has spurred the introduction of legislation that could slow its growth. Most significantly, the sponsor of the legislation introduced this week is state Sen. Stephen Sweeney. He is the Democratic majority leader of the New Jersey Senate, giving him more influence to drive a piece of legislation to approval. Sweeney is arguably the state’s second most powerful politician after Gov. Phil Murphy.