STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — More than 100 irate Staten Island residents gathered at a standing-room-only Community Board 3 meeting on Wednesday night, collectively delivering a message to a developer who is planning to build a 16-acre trucking terminal in their neighborhood: “This project has to be stopped.”

“There is a need for projects like this but normally they are done adjacent to a highway where trucks can get to them very easily,” noted Frank Morano, former chair of Community Board 3. “You don’t put them on roads that are as narrow as the cow path it once was.” 60

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Morano, who is unrelated to South Shore Councilmember Frank Morano, was speaking about a massive commercial motor freight station designed to accommodate 184 tractor-trailers that is being proposed for a long, w

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