The project does not include residential development and therefore will not generate permanent population growth, school enrollment impacts, or demand for residential municipal services. Employment generated by the office and storage warehouse uses is expected to be incremental and consistent with existing employment patterns in the surrounding industrial corridor. Any increase in daytime workforce population is anticipated to be modest and accommodated by existing regional housing stock, transportation infrastructure, and municipal services. The project is not expected to alter local demographic composition, housing demand, or community character. As a commercial redevelopment, demographic impacts are considered negligible.

The project minimizes potential planning, zoning, and demographic impacts by concentrating redevelopment on an existing developed parcel within a designated Pinelands Regional Growth Area, thereby avoiding extension of infrastructure into undeveloped or environmentally sensitive areas and reinforcing established commercial land use patterns along the Whitesville Road corridor. Site design maintains full compliance with PM-1 zoning bulk, coverage, height, and parking standards, ensuring that building scale, intensity, and site coverage remain consistent with surrounding development and municipal planning objectives. Internal circulation, access management, parking layout, stormwater controls, and landscape buffering are integrated to support orderly development and compatibility with adjacent properties while maintaining regulatory setbacks from wetlands and buffer areas. The absence of residential units avoids population growth, school enrollment increases, or new demand for municipal housing and social services, and limits demographic effects to modest, localized employment generation that can be absorbed by the existing labor market and infrastructure. Overall, the project advances infill redevelopment, regulatory compliance, and infrastructure efficiency while preserving community character and long-range planning goals.

The site lies within the Outer Atlantic Coastal Plain Physiographic Province. The Outer Coastal Plain Province is characterized by broad lowlands formed on unconsolidated and semi-consolidated marine and alluvial sediments, mainly sands, silts and clays, with minor amounts of gravel. According to the GIS data layer entitled “Bedrock Geology for New Jersey” provided by the NJDEP New Jersey Geological Survey (NJGS), the site is underlain by the Cohansey Formation (refer to Figure 7: New Jersey Bedrock Geology Map). The Cohansey Formation is made up of quartz sand, medium to coarse grained. (NJGS 2009).

The site is in the Kirkwood – Cohansey Bedrock Aquifer System. The Kirkwood – Cohansey is a water-table aquifer that covers nearly 3,000 square miles. Ground water is stored in and transmitted through pores between sand grains and is typically well connected to surface water bodies. Some ground water leaks to deeper confined aquifers. The aquifer is highly permeable due to the dominance of well sorted, medium to coarse grained sand. Ground water in this aquifer is typically fresh, acidic, highly corrosive, and low in dissolved solids.

According to the GIS data layer entitled “Surface Geology for New Jersey”, provided by the NJDEP NJGS, the surficial geology underlying the site is composed of Upper Stream Terrace Deposits (refer to Figure 8: