WAREHOUSES

My Record on Warehouses

When I ran for Supervisor in 2019, I stated plainly that Lower Nazareth already had its fair share of warehouse development. Over the past six years, I dedicated myself to ending this proliferation. This was not a change that could happen overnight, it required years of intercommunity cooperation, careful studies, and building the legal foundation needed to succeed.

That work paid off. Our zoning and case law were strengthened to the advantage of our citizens, and as a result, we were able to successfully deny the last three warehouse proposals. Those denials were affirmed by the Northampton County Court, and since then, no new applications have been submitted. The message in Lower Nazareth is now clear: warehouse sprawl stops here.

During the four years it took to reach this point, warehouse proposals continued to come in. Because warehouses were a conditional use, the Township legally had only two options: approve with conditions, or deny outright. An outright denial without the legal backing we have today would have been overturned in court, as happened in 2011, when after eight years and thousands of dollars in legal battles, the court forced approval of a warehouse with no ability for the Township to add protections or conditions.

That is why, in the interim, I pushed for reasonable conditions that reduced negative impacts on neighbors and preserved the Township’s ability to shape these projects. Once the legal groundwork was complete in 2023, we achieved what I promised in 2019: an end to warehouse proliferation in Lower Nazareth.