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Getting pretty sick of this strawman. Nobody's ever suggesting getting rid of zoning rules that keep polluting factories and similar buildings away from residen
by TulliusCicero 8y ago
Getting pretty sick of this strawman. Nobody's ever suggesting getting rid of zoning rules that keep polluting factories and similar buildings away from residential areas.
Like, this is very explicit in the article for this thread even, and somehow it still comes up.
- emodendroket 8y agoThe compressor station thing is on the top of my mind because they want to build one in my town. Anyway there is a wide gradient; a bar isn't quite as undesirable as some of the industrial facilities, but it can still be disruptive to someone who lives nearby.
- TulliusCicero 8y agoA bar is a fair example, nuclear waste really isn't (we can't even collectively agree to put it under actual fucking mountains in apocalypse-proof vaults). Anyway if you look in the article it talks about how you still exclude things from residential areas based on level of nuisance. Presumably a compressor station could qualify.
- emodendroket 8y agoIt kind of gets to the anxiety about handing over control though. Towns do not get to decide whether they'll have a compressor station so a number have been built over community objections. I'm not really a local-government fetishist but I would be worried about how responsive a more centralized system would be to resident complaints.