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By the same token, nobody living in a residential neighborhood should oppose construction of an oil refinery in it - The industry would contribute tax revenue,

• shuckles 6y ago
  Residential land is far too valuable for someone to ever propose an oil refinery or manufacturing on it. The separation between industrial uses and residential uses were already underway before residential zoning was invented, and there is no reason to believe single family residential - which is a particular and extremely restrictive form of residential zoning - is necessary to enforce this kind of basic planning distinction.
• jschwartzi 6y ago
  There's a big difference between a power substation and an oil refinery. And depending on how that substation was built and the decisions made it can really negatively impact someone's use of their property. In my case the substation our PUD built across the street involved denuding the entire area of trees. This is mainly a problem because the freeway is right behind the trees they removed. So removing the trees made our front yard very difficult to inhabit for long periods of time because it's so loud. I'm not the only person affected either. And I wouldn't object had they built any kind of sound isolation. I wouldn't object to an oil refinery either if they can guarantee they won't suddenly explode and kill me while I sleep. The fact remains that we all have to be good neighbors to each other, and that cuts both ways.