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Fight Back: No Bulldozing 160 Acre Forest for Texas Company's Warehouse

Have you had it with developers, many of them out-of-state, swooping in to destroy Connecticut's fields and forests, just to line their own pockets? The Courant's Don Stacom reports on them regularly. The reporting is excellent.   This depressing trend is happening in too many places. We need an organized way for people to respond quickly and easily. CT Climate News is working on that, starting with this post. Part 1: About the Proposed Willington Warehouse Project on 160 Acres of Forest Hillwood, a Perot Company based in Texas, proposes a massive warehouse on 160 acres of forest in Willington just off I-84. They'll need a zoning change to go forward. For background, see Don Stacom's article, Tax revenue vs. conservation: Proposal for mega-warehouse sparks controversy in this tiny CT town . The warehouse would be 28% bigger than Buckland Hills Mall, according to residents' petition , opposing the warehouse. This graphic showing the site location is from the develop