September 20, 2004 - Master Plan 2004 Update

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The warehouse on the Peron Howard Street property is clearly in conflict with the Master Plan 2004 Update.  Some of the items where the Peron Howard Street propery s in direct conflict with the Master Plan 2004 update are:

• Increase public access and use of the Delaware River
• Preserve and develop the Moris Canal as an historical transportation corridor and trail link to an expanding County-wide trail system
• Create a Riverfront Development Plan for the entire length of river frontage, providing or river related businesses, activities and housind and including access plans for trails, view areas and such.
• Reduce conflicts between residental and non-residential uses.
• Encourage and aid incompatible non-residential uses whose current location will negatively impact the future development/redevelopment of that area to find alternate, more appropriate and functional locations of within the Town.

October 1996 - Phillipsburg Master Plan Reexamination Report

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This October 1996 Master Plan Reexamination Report had as some of its approvers some individuals, or relatives of individuals, that are current players in the political scene as of May 2024:

• William Duffy, present Chair of the Phillipsburg Land Use Board
• Bernard Rooney - recent member of the Phillipsburg Land Use Board
• Harry Wyant, past Mayor of Phillipsburg and past Council President
• Thomas Corcoran, Father of current Chair of the Phllipsburg Democratic Committee

Note that a warehouse on the Peron Howard Street Property goes against the town's Master Plan as far back as 1996.  The 1996 Phillipsburg Master plan Reexamination Report specificall states the following:

8) A conservation plan element provideing for the preservation, conservation, and utilization of natural resources, including the the extent appropiate, energy, open space, water supply, forrests, soil, marshes, wetlands, harbors, rivers and other waters, fisheries, endangered or hreatened species wildlife and other resources, and which systematically analyzes the impact of each other compnent and element of the master plan on present and future preservation, conservatiion and utilization of those resources;

Building a warehouse in downtown Phillipsburg along the Delaware River clearly goes against the spirit and intent of the 1996 Phillipsburg Master Plan Reexamination Report.