https://news.yahoo.com/exxon-mobil-clinton-township-appear-092342523.html
Does KM finally sell Clinton when the zoning doesn’t get changed?
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Annandale is still open? OMG, Kathy what the heck are you waiting for? Are you trying to save money to the shareholders or not? Shut down this shlthole now.
So where will they build the warehouses to house all the souls sold by EM's employees over the past 50 years?
Sounds like texas. yep.
Clinton site and it’s employees are still with ExxonMobil?
Unbelievable
This should never be approved, see ya Clinton..tick tick
This facility housed Corporate Strategic Research -CSR. CSR is to incompetent and toxic that it has probably ruined the ground water and air with their fraudulent fake research work. EM should be kicked out of Annandale.
https://news.yahoo.com/exxon-mobil-clinton-township-appear-092342523.html
Exxon/Mobil, Clinton Township appear at odds over future of 757-acre campus
Mike Deak
Mon, October 2, 2023, at 5:23 AM EDT
CLINTON TOWNSHIP – Though no final decision has been made, ExxonMobil is starting to lay the groundwork for changing the zoning of its 757-acre campus that borders routes 22 and 31 to possibly allow 2.1 million square feet of warehouse development.
But judging from many residents' reaction to that possibility, the company has a lot of work to do to convince the township.
"We're a strong community and we're not going to allow it," said Andrea Weaver, an Annandale resident.
Joe Wong, a commercial portfolio manager for ExxonMobil, told the Township Council on Sept. 27 that the company is not going to expand its operations beyond the 150 acres it now uses on the campus.
"We don't see growth in the future," he said.
The company's research and development facility, a three-story 850,000-square-foot building, has 500-600 employees and pays the township $3.5 million a year in property taxes, Wong said.
But because the company does not see expanding its operations, about three quarters of the property is considered "surplus," he said, adding that any future plans will include land set aside for conservation as farmland and a wildlife habitat.
"We have no final plans, just options," he said, adding the company wants "to start the process" of "collaborating" with the community "to start the process to see what is possible" on the campus, built in the early 1980s.
But Councilwoman Amy Switlyk said she was disappointed that ExxonMobil didn't present more information about the other possible uses for the property and instead concentrated a warehouse development, a remark that drew applause from those in the audience at meeting in the middle school.
As in other Central Jersey communities, the possibility of warehouse development struck a nerve among some residents.
"We don't want to see this," Weaver said, explaining that because the township's zoning ordinance prohibits warehouses, "you're wasting our time."
Weaver said that figures showing warehouse development would generate less traffic than the other uses allowed on the site, such as senior housing and medical facilities, are a "scare tactic."
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Mayor Brian Mullay said the "fatal flaw" of any warehousing proposal is the possible tractor-trailer pattern.
Gary Dean, a traffic engineer for the company, said that trucks heading west on Interstate 78 from the Port of Newark would access the site either by taking the interstate to southbound Route 31 or exiting the interstate at Cokesbury Road and going on Route 22,
Dean also said that warehouses would generate less "traffic movements" than the other uses zoning allows on the property, including manufacturing, life science facilities and offices.
Dean explained there is a difference between warehouses and fulfillment centers like Amazon.
Warehouses are not the "boogeyman that the public thinks Amazon is" with trucks continually entering and exiting the facility, he said.
Dean said ExxonMobil is "not suggesting the whole campus is warehousing" and compared future traffic to an existing 730,000-square-foot warehouse on Cokesbury Road at the I-78 interchange where an informal traffic study found only four tractor-trailers per hour going to the facility.
"To me that's not a traffic problem," he said.
Dean said that warehouse development on the ExxonMobil campus would generate about 3,000 "traffic movements" a day, compared to 30,000 if a medical campus were developed, 20,000 for offices and 15,000 for manufacturing or life sciences.
Engineer Ron Kennedy said the sewage plant and two wells on the property could support warehouse development.
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This article originally appeared on MyCentralJersey.com: Exxon/Mobil, Clinton Township NJ at odds over development.
Ruh-roh!!!!
What are all the eggheads gonna do?
How many more Clinton days are number post. Been 5 years and still laughing 😃
That is the pattern with Dallas. Zoning changed denied and then sold.
Clinton days numbered.
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/exxon-mobils-zoning-request-near-its-headquarters-denied-carlisle