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Warehouse denials in Silver Spring, Dillsburg a sign of a changing tide? [Video]

SILVER SPRING TOWNSHIP, Pa. (WHTM) — There was a time where it seemed every proposed warehouse in the Midstate was built, regardless of community support or opposition.

That time has come and gone.

Earlier this year, leaders in the Dillsburg area nixed one plan, and now this week, the same happened in Silver Spring Township, Cumberland County.

Though, concerns remain.

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“We were told this is a done deal,” Denise Bailor, who lives in the neighborhood, told abc27 News. “A warehouse that would operate 24 hours a day, seven days a week.”

It would’ve gone along Texaco Road.

“This is happening all over Pennsylvania and in other states,” Bailor saidd “There were small coalitions throughout the neighborhood that kind of started working in their own sections and …

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