Save Downtown With Restrictive Zoning

Why industrial areas are vital to healthy cities.

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February 23, 2007, 10:00 AM PST

By Abhijeet Chavan @http://twitter.com/legalaidtech

"Downtown Los Angeles is gentrifying rapidly... Ralphs is moving in. Smokestacks are coming down. It's all great news, right? Not entirely. As ugly, noisy and smelly as manufacturing plants and warehouses can be, healthy cities still need them. Even Los Angeles...It's true that keeping some land industrial would make it harder to build badly needed homes. But people who live here still need jobs. Allowing factories and warehouses some room to breathe is a sensible use of restrictive zoning."

FULL STORY: Keep downtown's industrial areas

Thursday, February 22, 2007 in The Los Angeles Times

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