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One of the most baffling things I read in planning grad school was the People’s Plan For South LA, which called for “protecting” industrial and manufacturing zoning to keep jobs, then *in the next paragraph* bemoaned the pollution from those same industrial uses. www.unidad-la.org/wp-content/u...

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Local activist guy against the environmental racism of hog rendering plants in Boyle Heights but also protests Smith Farms’ purchase of the Farmer John plant because they’ll shut the plant down and move the jobs to Iowa

I am convinced what people want is Plymouth Plantation. Everyone there playacts your idyllic fantasy of what X. You go maybe once in your life, but the idea that it exists makes you happy.

It is vitally important that the auto body shop on Valencia street employ 8 people to do manly man things with cars instead of being repurposed as a restaurant that employs 40 people to cook, serve, and clean.

My city's industrial park is o0% warehouses. Those don't need to be downtown but they, uh, probably don't need a small town to be built for them. They could be anywhere.