A Superior Court Judge in Gloucester County, NJ has reversed Harrison Township's decision denying approval to a 2.1M industrial campus in a rural part of the township, which is near Philadelphia.
Judge Benjamin Telsey found that Harrison Township's Joint Land Use Board had acted in an "arbitrary, capricious and unreasonable" manner in December, when it rejected a proposal from Russo Development to build four warehouses on a 160-acre rural site, CoStar reported.
In his ruling, the judge said that the Dec. 15 board hearing, attended by 300 people as well as local television news crews, "quickly got out of control." The judge suggested that "outrage of the crowd" influenced the board to "find a reason to deny the application," the report said.
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