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Easton Area School District board hears community concerns over proposed Wood Avenue warehouse
Summary
Board members and residents raised traffic, student-safety and environmental concerns about a proposed 1,000,000-square-foot warehouse near Wood Avenue; administrators were directed to draft a resolution expressing those concerns for distribution to municipal and state agencies.
At a regular meeting of the Eastern Area School District, board members heard an extended presentation and public comment about a proposed 1,000,000-square-foot warehouse near Wood Avenue and agreed that administrators should draft a formal resolution to register the district’s concerns with municipal and state authorities.
The warehouse proposal, presented to the board during the superintendent’s report by Jen Zando Dennis, drew questions about traffic and student safety, the routing of heavy truck traffic through neighborhoods, and potential environmental impacts on the Bushkill Creek watershed and adjacent parks. "They're estimating...200 to 300 trucks that would be moving in and out of that space every day," Zando Dennis said; she added the developer also estimated hundreds of employee vehicles.
The issue matters to the district because several school bus routes and neighborhood streets could be intermixed with warehouse traffic. Ben, the district transportation…
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