Directly across the highway from our place is a big golf course. We recently have been receiving notices in the mail that there are plans to put in an "Industrial Logistics Park," with three large warehouses and enough room to have 700 tractor trailers parked on site, and the local folks are not happy about it at all. They are trying to rally support to go to a township meeting this week to oppose this project. I don't know what will happen, but I have my doubts that the locals will get their way. The people that are trying to put in the warehouses have proposed plans to place a new traffic light on Route 61, basically right in front of our house. We do not plan to live here permanently, but if this warehouse goes in, it might be a little easier to decide to move out some years from now. I just wonder if it will have any effect on the value of our property. I'm not really looking forward to the noise and commotion that a bunch of big rigs will bring to the neighborhood. We like the view out our back door... wide open fields. The only problem is, the field behind us is also up for sale. It has been for years. Right now a business owns the land, and a local farmer rents it. I checked Berks Tax maps, and found that the parcel of ground sold for a high price several years ago to that business. I was told by some locals that there was some shady dealings, and somebody wound up in jail, and the property has been setting vacant ever since. We're ok with having a golf course and fields next to us, but not a housing development or a 700 horse truck stall.
Scram! (That's my first thoughts.)
On second thought, this world is not our home. We're just passing through. Regardless of what happens, we still serve an almighty God who will call us to a better home some day.
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