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Re:CA Cities to Lose All Zoning Powers in 2 Days by steveklabnik on Tuesday January 31, 2023 @02:06PM (#34600119)
This SimCity style thinking about zoning is just too simplistic. Yes, absolutely, nobody wants to live next to a smelter. But not every commercial property is a smelter. People love to live near corner stores, yet that is "commercial."
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Re:CA Cities to Lose All Zoning Powers in 2 Days by HWR_14 on Tuesday January 31, 2023 @02:30PM (#34600529)
The smelter is "Industrial" not "Commercial". At least in SimCity abstractions.

Usually commercial and some level of manufacturing overlap in zoning, but smelters are in a different category.

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Re:CA Cities to Lose All Zoning Powers in 2 Days by steveklabnik on Tuesday January 31, 2023 @02:36PM (#34600639)
Sure. Three or five total zoning designations is still not fine-grained enough, especially if they're exclusive.
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Re:CA Cities to Lose All Zoning Powers in 2 Days by JAlexoid on Tuesday January 31, 2023 @03:28PM (#34601464)
A tailor and laundry are technically industrial use, yet I wouldn't mind having a taylor or a laundry service nearby.
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Re:CA Cities to Lose All Zoning Powers in 2 Days by HWR_14 on Tuesday January 31, 2023 @05:21PM (#34603146)
They seem to be zoned commercially in most zoning laws I look at. Where are they zoned only industrial?
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Re:CA Cities to Lose All Zoning Powers in 2 Days by WkndTriathlete on Tuesday January 31, 2023 @02:13PM (#34600242)
That's why zoning in the US is classified Residential, Commercial / Light Industrial, and Heavy Industrial, and Residential never abuts Heavy Industrial.
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Re:CA Cities to Lose All Zoning Powers in 2 Days by steveklabnik on Tuesday January 31, 2023 @02:31PM (#34600535)
Yes. I personally still find this far too simplistic, and would prefer non-exclusionary zoning.
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