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Isn't a bigger factor here, in addition to their careless attitude, the fact that they've started manufacturing semiconductors on land specifically only zoned f

Isn't a bigger factor here, in addition to their careless attitude, the fact that they've started manufacturing semiconductors on land specifically only zoned for light industrial use, when, at least per her article, fabricating semiconductors is work that is required to be zoned heavy industrial? The issue being, of course, the proximity of residential to a "light industrial" vs. "heavy industrial" plot sure changes things for the people moving into those residences...

infecto 2y ago
I would be surprised if they are not operating within the correct zoning but you never know. I think the bigger untouched issue is this is already contaminated land. Unclear if it’s apple or the residential built on top of contamination. These cleanups seem to almost never work well.
osnium123 2y ago
That part of Sunnyvale and Santa Clara used to have many silicon fabs in the 1980s and 1990s before they all shut down.
- amelius 2y ago
  People did many things in the past that are now not OK.
ClumsyPilot 2y ago
> they've started manufacturing semiconductors on land specifically only zoned for light industrial use This looks strange indeed, I thought light industry is like bicycle repair and large bakeries, definitely wouldn’t expect a chemical plant
- PROgrammerTHREE 2y ago
  They make display screens there, not semiconductors.
ant6n 2y ago
It’s like something out of some old Batman film: „we‘ll put the poison factory right in the middle of Gotham city!“
PROgrammerTHREE 2y ago
She invented the idea that they are making semiconductors there. They make device screens: https://www.siliconvalley.com/2018/03/19/apple-secretly-developing-screens-in-unmarked-santa-clara-facility-report/ https://www.siliconvalley.com/2018/03/19/apple-secretly-deve...
- fxtentacle 2y ago
  "LCDs are manufactured in cleanrooms borrowing techniques from semiconductor manufacturing"

infecto 2y ago

I would be surprised if they are not operating within the correct zoning but you never know. I think the bigger untouched issue is this is already contaminated land. Unclear if it’s apple or the residential built on top of contamination. These cleanups seem to almost never work well.

osnium123 2y ago

That part of Sunnyvale and Santa Clara used to have many silicon fabs in the 1980s and 1990s before they all shut down.

amelius 2y ago
People did many things in the past that are now not OK.

ClumsyPilot 2y ago

> they've started manufacturing semiconductors on land specifically only zoned for light industrial use This looks strange indeed, I thought light industry is like bicycle repair and large bakeries, definitely wouldn’t expect a chemical plant

PROgrammerTHREE 2y ago
They make display screens there, not semiconductors.

ant6n 2y ago

It’s like something out of some old Batman film: „we‘ll put the poison factory right in the middle of Gotham city!“

PROgrammerTHREE 2y ago

She invented the idea that they are making semiconductors there. They make device screens: https://www.siliconvalley.com/2018/03/19/apple-secretly-developing-screens-in-unmarked-santa-clara-facility-report/ https://www.siliconvalley.com/2018/03/19/apple-secretly-deve...

fxtentacle 2y ago
"LCDs are manufactured in cleanrooms borrowing techniques from semiconductor manufacturing"