Sign The Petition And Stop The Warehouse
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Help to the potential warehouse from being built on the Peron Howard Street Property in downtown Phillipsburg. We will be circulating the petition throughout the town. If you want to sign the petition and have not yet signed it, please send us an email at
The Consequences of a Warehouse on the Peron Howard Street Property:
- Heavy tractor trailer truck traffic (Potentially 200 trucks per day, 350 cars per day, as pointed out by Councilman Kennedy a truck trip is worth five car trips, so this means at least the equivalent of 985 vehicle trips per day to the warehouse) https://www.tapinto.net/towns/phillipsburg/sections/government/articles/reorganized-phillipsburg-land-use-board-approves-revamped-howard-street-warehouse-plan
- Toxic diesel fumes from the warehouse (Diesel fumes are known to cause lung problems and cause cancer. https://www.cancer.org/cancer/risk-prevention/chemicals/diesel-exhaust-and-cancer.html
- Research has shown that those who live in polluted areas suffer from lower IQs. https://www.unep.org/news-and-stories/story/air-pollution-linked-huge-reduction-intelligence
- Noise from tractor trailers driving through the neighborhoods(s) (Problems related to consistent ruck noise include stress related illnes, high blood pressure, speech interference, hearing loss, sleep disruption, and lost productivity )
- Warehouses hurt property values due to truck noise, toxic diesel fumes and truck traffic. If a warehouse is built on the Peron Howard Street Property, expect home values to plunge in the Flats and nearby areas. Nobody wants to live next to a warehouse.
- If it is not stopped, the warehouse will be built where there was supposed to be residential area called Riverview at Delaware Station. The warehouse will be next to the Delaware River, which is a protected natural resource. If a warehouse is built on the Peron Howard Street property there is extreme danger of polluted runoff entering the Delaware River.
- If a warehose is built on the Peron Howard Street Property, this will sandwich the Residential area of the Flats between two highly toxic industries. Toxic diesel fumes from the Peron Howard Street warehouse would be on the south of the Flats, and toxic emissions (lead, mercury, arsenic, cadmium, chromium) from McWayne Ductile Plant are on the north. The Flats is already an overburdened community with toxic emissions, and the Peron Howard Street Warehouse would compound the problem for the community.
Rezoning Peron Howard Street Property To Industrial Violates Town Master Plan
Ordinance 2022-30 rezones the Peron Howard Street Property from Riverside Residential to Industrial, thereby potentially paving the way for a warehouse to be built in downtown Phillipsburg along the Delaware River. Peron Constructions has already presented several warehouse configurations to the Phillipsburg Land Use Board to be constructed on the Peron Howard Street Property. Making the Peron Howard Street Property industrial zoning and building a warehouse on this property violates the Town of Phillipsburg Master Plan..
You can download Ordinance 2022-30 and the 2013 Master Plan Reexamination Report by clicking on the document titles in his sentence.
The map above is for referene related to the documentation below. The three color bounded areas in the map refer to:
- Green - The section bounded by green is currently zoned residental area in the Flats of Phillipsburg. In the 2013 Master Plan Reexamination Report, this section is also referred to as the old residential area. This consist of residential development between South Main Street and Cheery Alley/Mercer Street.
- Red - The section bounded by red is currently zoned light industrial area in the Flats of Phillipsburg. This was a residential area until 1961, at which time it was demolished and this strip was changed to light industrial. As can be seen in review below, the 2013 Master Plan Reexamination Report recommends rezoning this property to somethng that will better compliment the existing and new residential area.
- Blue - The section bounded by blue is the area know as the Peron Howard Street Property. This property was zoned residential and Ordinance 2022-30 proposes to rezone this property to Industrial for the purpose of building a warehouse. The 2013 Master Plan Reexamination Report specifically mentions this plan as being residential and being part of the plan to enhance the residential area of town by extending the current residential and recreationaly zoning from South Main Street down to Howard Street.
Read more: Rezoning Peron Howard Street Property To Industrial Violates Town Master Plan
Residents trust in Town of Phillipsburg government violated (video included)
Click on the image to the right to see the video of the Council and Mayor receiving 174 letters from the residents of Phillpsburg who do not want a warehouse built on the Peron Howard Street Property, in downtown Phillipsburg next to the Delaware River.
Updated June 20, 2024
The residents of Phillipsburg and the grassroot organizaton Phillipsburg Environmental Watch have won a significant lawsuit against the Town of Phillipsburg. The Town of Phillipsburg has withdrawn their pursuit of defending the lawsuit against Ordinance 2022-30, and as per a consent order signed June 17, 2024, by the Judge presiding over the case, the Town of Phillipsburg will vacate the latest "warehouse ordinance", Ordinance 2022-30.
However, we can't stop now. We have a second lawsuit against a previous "warehouse ordinance", Ordinance 2021-14. We also expect that the devloper may try to have the Council vote for yet another ordinance that will be contrary to the 2013 Master Plan Revision Report and make the Peron Howard Street Property Industrial. We will continue to challenge any ordinances that violate the town's Master Plan and hurts the residents of Phillipsburg.
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Read more: Residents trust in Town of Phillipsburg government violated (video included)
Mike Perrucci wants a warehouse because the Flats is a place nobody wants to live (video included)
Click on he image to the right to see the video of Michael Perrucci, 100% owner of Peron Construction, explain that nobody wants to buy a house in the Flats (#or live in the Flats), so instead of building housing he is going to build a warehouse by the residential area of the Flats:
Michael Perrucci is the 100% owner of Peron Construction. Peron Construction owns 32 acres of undeveloped land along the Delaware River in the Flats of Phillipsburg.
Michael Perrucci's reasoning for building a warehouse on the last 32 acres of undeveloped land along the Delaware River is that nobody wants to live there, so he believes the best thing for Phillipsburg is to build warehouse.
Michael Perrucci reasons for believing that nobody would buy a property in the Flats is that there is a gun range at one end of Howard Street and a junk yard (small) at the other end of Howard Street. The junk yard and the gun range make the Flats of Phillipsburg an undesirable place to live. So, Michael Perrucci wants to build a warehouse nearby the residental community in the Flats of Phillipsburg.
We, the residents of Phillipsburg against a warehouse in downtown Phillipsburg along the Delaware River do not believe degradating the Flats of Phillipsburg by building a warehouse near the residental area of the Flats is a good thing for Phillipsburg, nor the Town of Phillipsburg as a whole.
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