Residents in a historic community in Gloucester County are pushing back against a housing developer’s plans to build homes on what activists describe as an environmentally sensitive forest.
In an application filed with the township’s land use board in April, contractors are requesting approval to build 13 single-family homes at 120 Woodlawn Lane, according to town documents. The land developers want to build on is like a “pocket of habitat” between two communities, according to Francesca Mundrick, an environmentalist from Pitman and professor at Rowan University.
It also contains threatened species such as bog turtles, red-bellied cooters, brown bats and a growing population of barred owls, according to activists.
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