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Hearing into controversial warehouse proposal continued in Newtown

A public hearing into a controversial warehouse proposal in Newtown has been continued to May 19th. The Planning and Zoning Commission will again hold their meeting at Edmond Town Hall due to the anticipated large turnout.

New York-based Wharton Equity Partners has applied for a Special Exception for a property on Hawleyville Road for a nearly 345,000 square foot warehouse, truck docks and trailer and vehicle parking. 

The presentations by Wharton and the intervenors took up all public speaking time and the general public didn't have an opportunity to speak.  Wharton attorneys say the warehouse would be “one of the highest taxpayers in town,” helping to offset residential taxes, while not generating any costs to the school system.  One intervenor said the developer's traffic study didn't account for employee in and out trips. 

The Newtown Bee reports that a lawyer for Wharton objected to intervenor Azeez Bhavnagarwala as he offered a presentation about potential impacts of vehicular traffic at and around the proposed facility because he's not a traffic engineer.  Bhavnagarwala is an electrical engineer and a research scientist, with over 50 issued and pending patents, some of which IBM sold to Microsoft, Google, TSMC and Cypress. 

The objection was noted, but Bhavnagarwala was allowed to continue.

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