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Healy backs warehouse
Healy 'yes' to warehouse
Wednesday, May 10, 2006
By EARL MORGAN
JOURNAL STAFF WRITER

In a surprise move, Jersey City Mayor Jerramiah Healy showed up at the City Council caucus Monday and lent his personal support to a proposed warehouse at the site of the old PJP landfill near the Tonnelle Circle.

Healy urged the council to approve a resolution tonight appropriating $15,000 for a traffic study to determine how the proposed 883,000-square-foot development would impact the roads and traffic patterns in the area.

But several council members, including Bill Gaughan, Michael Sottolano and Council President Mariano Vega, said they were concerned about some of the issues raised by residents, such traffic snarls that could result from an influx of trucks on Route 440 and other streets.

The developer is supposed to reimburse the city for the traffic study.

Bob Cavanaugh, the attorney for the California-based company that wants to build the warehouse, said he's confident the plans made to bring container trucks in and out of the warehouse will have a minimal impact on traffic.

Healy stressed the $1 million a year in taxes he said the development would generate, as well as 300 jobs. Healy also said the cost of remediation of the landfill, whose stench afflicted the city for years, will be borne by the developer.

Sources say there is some tension between Hudson County and Jersey City officials over the project, with the county favoring plans to convert the landfill into a golf course.

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