Controversial Berks warehouse plan approved over pleas of numerous residents
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....