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0 pointsburlesona4y ago0 comments

You don’t need zoning to stop that. You can regulate against nuisances directly - for example: no industrial noise levels within 2000’ of an existing neighborhood. You also don’t even _need_ to do that because it’s uneconomical: land in a neighborhood is worth too much per square foot to be used for industrial development.

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8note4y ago· 2 in thread

Unless it's a black neighborhood, in which case it's cheap enough to bring in big polluters?

A default assumption that industrial processes are safe unless specifically regulated to say they're dangerous sounds like a shell game. The industry will chge between dangerous pollutants fast enough to be one step ahead of regulators, or pay regulators off to allow their pollutants.

It's right to assume all industrial work is dangerous

convolvatron4y ago

i work in a light industrial area...there is a place next door that burns the crap off of commercial restaurant pans and recoats them with teflon.

their smokestack blew over last year, and now i get headaches all the time since they haven't bothered to rebuild it.

even in san francisco, purported leftie paradise - there really isn't anything i can do about it.

assume that _every_ shop is cutting corners

jfk134y ago

So, have you sued them yet? (Isn't that the American Way?)

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