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What's interesting is that the word "safe" doesn't show up once in the "Zoning" Wikipedia article. However, words like "business interests", "income segregation

What's interesting is that the word "safe" doesn't show up once in the "Zoning" Wikipedia article. However, words like "business interests", "income segregation", and "racial segregation" seem to show up quite a bit. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoning#Functional_zoning_-_categories https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoning#Functional_zoning_-_cat... - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoning#Criticism_of_zoning_laws_in_the_United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoning#Criticism_of_zoning_law...

PhantomGremlin 11y ago
the word "safe" doesn't show up once in the "Zoning" Wikipedia article Then that Wikipedia article needs to be amended. Look at an example from the real world. This is happening right now, in Portland Oregon. http://www.portlandmercury.com/portland/two-portland-glass-companies-lack-pollution-controls-on-their-chimneys/Content?oid=17577339 http://www.portlandmercury.com/portland/two-portland-glass-c... The problem is that glass factories are "adjacent to a 100-child daycare facility, two public schools (Cleveland High School and Winterhaven K-8), and a city park." These factories have been emitting metals such as cadmium and arsenic into the air. As you can imagine, this being Portland, everyone is quite upset. And rightly so. You can argue about the quantities of emission that any given plant should be allowed. But you can't argue that, for any given emission level, society as a whole is much better off if these factories aren't adjacent to daycare facilities and schools. Keeping schools and factories separated is a very legitimate "safety" goal of zoning.
- ajmurmann 11y ago
  A while ago someone posted a great article about Japanese zoning laws. Those make so much more sense: http://urbankchoze.blogspot.com/2014/04/japanese-zoning.html http://urbankchoze.blogspot.com/2014/04/japanese-zoning.html
  - michaelbuddy 11y ago
    People are constantly having issues with Japan building freeways over their populated areas, going right through their rice fields. The only difference is nobody can claim racism because Japanese are homogeneous.

PhantomGremlin 11y ago

the word "safe" doesn't show up once in the "Zoning" Wikipedia article Then that Wikipedia article needs to be amended. Look at an example from the real world. This is happening right now, in Portland Oregon. http://www.portlandmercury.com/portland/two-portland-glass-companies-lack-pollution-controls-on-their-chimneys/Content?oid=17577339 http://www.portlandmercury.com/portland/two-portland-glass-c... The problem is that glass factories are "adjacent to a 100-child daycare facility, two public schools (Cleveland High School and Winterhaven K-8), and a city park." These factories have been emitting metals such as cadmium and arsenic into the air. As you can imagine, this being Portland, everyone is quite upset. And rightly so. You can argue about the quantities of emission that any given plant should be allowed. But you can't argue that, for any given emission level, society as a whole is much better off if these factories aren't adjacent to daycare facilities and schools. Keeping schools and factories separated is a very legitimate "safety" goal of zoning.

ajmurmann 11y ago
A while ago someone posted a great article about Japanese zoning laws. Those make so much more sense: http://urbankchoze.blogspot.com/2014/04/japanese-zoning.html http://urbankchoze.blogspot.com/2014/04/japanese-zoning.html
- michaelbuddy 11y ago
  People are constantly having issues with Japan building freeways over their populated areas, going right through their rice fields. The only difference is nobody can claim racism because Japanese are homogeneous.