MILLSTONE TOWNSHIP - The Planning Board has approved a 130,242-square-foot warehouse, one of three proposed developments along Route 33 raising concerns about an increase in truck traffic.

In addition to the warehouses proposed to be located within a mile of each other, an indoor recreation center, also on Route 33, was approved in October. The recreation center, owned by Force 5 Holdings LLC, will neighbor Amazon’s Monroe Township warehouse along Farrington Bouvard. It will contain an arcade, laser tag, cricket courts, ping-pong tables, a badminton court, party rooms, locker rooms and an office.

The warehouse that was approved Wednesday night is owned by developer AACDML Property LLC.

It will be located in the wooded area next to Liberty Insurance Associates, east of the intersection of Route 33 and Millstone Road.

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The entire property consists of 137 acres, but only 20 acres will be developed.

According to Kenneth Pape, attorney for the developer, the untouched land will be deed restricted and have “no development in perpetuity.”

The warehouse will have two offices that will be used by the prospective tenants. Pape said the warehouse is not designed to be a fulfillment center.

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“There will not be 16,000 small vans coming out of here in one 20-minute period, correct?” board member Tara Zabrosky asked.

John Jahr, the traffic engineer for the developer, confirmed that the proposed warehouse will not be a last-mile distribution center like an Amazon warehouse. He said during the morning peak hours, there will be about 39 vehicles entering or leaving the facility and during the evening peak hours, there will be 42 vehicles entering or leaving the facility. Jahr said, in the morning peak hours, about three trucks will enter or leave the facility, and, in the evening peak hours, about four trucks will enter or leave the facility.

“It’s not a very big facility,” Jahr said.

The two other warehouse proposals on Route 33 come from the developer JLE, which has proposed a 291,852-square-foot facility, and from XXXIII Associates/Riverside Center, which has proposed a 62,400-square-foot warehouse.

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Andrew Harris, president of the neighboring Liberty Insurance Associates, said, while he believed his neighbor was a smaller warehouse, he was concerned about the many proposals for warehouses that could cause future traffic on Route 33.

“I just hope somebody is looking at, what’s going to happen if trucks are going in through very tight turns,” he said. “They’re big, they run fast and they can’t stop.”

Jahr said, when submitting the developer’s plans to the state Department of Transportation, the other proposed warehouses were included.

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According to Pape, the developer also agreed to push the building back from Route 33 to obscure it partially. The warehouse will be operational 24/7, divided into three shifts. There will be 55 parking spaces with 28 “green banked” spaces, which are parking stalls that will be constructed only if there is a need in the future for additional spaces.

The developer agreed to shorten the height of the building after the majority of the board expressed a chance of denying the application because it was about three feet above the township’s 30-foot maximum building height.

The board approved the proposed warehouse unanimously.

Olivia Liu is a reporter covering transportation, Red Bank and western Monmouth County. She can be reached at oliu@gannett.com.

This article originally appeared on Asbury Park Press: Western Monmouth New Jersey Route 33 warehouse approved