Warehouse, Office Plan Endorsed

Cellucci estimated that 340 parking spaces would serve the needs of future tenants at the site.

"It's actually going to improve the neighborhood," he said yesterday.

A neighboring concrete factory has been using the territory as a dump, but he said his project would clean up the area.

In another matter, the Planning Commission passed a resolution supporting the countywide $50 million "open space" bond issue on the November ballot. According to state Rep. Sam Morris, the referendum would help municipalities preserve farmland and park space if approved.

"As far as I'm concerned, this bond issue is essential to the well-being of Chester County," said Morris, the chairman of the House Agriculture Committee in Harrisburg and a longtime Charlestown resident.

"We're losing farmland very, very rapidly, as well as open space in general. I do hope that everyone will vote for this," he said.

His sentiments were well-received by the Planning Commission.

"Open space was not in the past 30 years something we had to worry about. I have no doubt it will be in the next 30 years," commission Chairman Michael Churchill said.

The commission also announced that Charlestown and Schuylkill Townships had jointly hired a traffic engineer to study the effects on their localities of a proposed turnpike interchange at Route 29.

Commission members estimated the engineer would have an early report ready within 10 days.