News / City opposition to boom in warehousing developments on the rise

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A growing number of US municipalities are taking a stand against the proliferation of warehousing – even in the ’Inland Empire’, California’s Mecca for warehousing, opposition is springing up.

The Inland Empire is a metropolitan area around the cities of San Bernadino and Riverside, which borders Los Angeles to the west. For many in the logistics industry, it has been synonymous with warehousing.

But now, residents in the region, which has a population of around four million, have opposed further developments and persuaded local councils to ...