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A developer withdraws one plan, and a second plan fails to secure zoning relief in Maxatawny Township.

The Maxatawny Township Planning Commission is skeptical about a plan to build a warehouse on the site of the former Kutztown Airport.

A residents group claimed a major legal victory against plans for a 1.6 million-square-foot warehouse center north of Route 222 in Maxatawny Township last week when the Pa. Commonwealth Court ruled against the plans’ approval.

Impassioned pleas and accusations of money-mongering failed to alter the course of the proposed Valley Logistics Park, a controversial warehouse project in Maxatawny Township. When it came right down to it, the township supervisors' conditional approval Wednesday of a preliminary plan on the project was pretty much a matter of law. Though her explanation was interrupted by shouts from residents opposed to the project, township solicitor Elizabeth A. Magovern explained that the nearly 300-acre site was zoned light industrial and the developer had complied with all relative township ordinances....

A warehouse project in Maxatawny Township that has been the subject of stiff community opposition received preliminary approval Wednesday despite two members of the township supervisors having conflicts of interest.