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Originally Posted by Wilhelm
Techweenie says: "There were residential homes 2 blocks from the blast (apparently zoning is loose).
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I was thinking the same thing about loose zoning. Cripes ! Why did the city allow homes, a school, a nursing home to be built so close to that fertilizer plant ?
That doesnt make any sense at all.
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It's the economics of small towns. I grew up in a small town in N. TX. Small towns like that usually have little if any zoning and welcome any job producing industry with open arms. That plant was the major employer in West and very likely started out years ago as a small operation that no one had any concerns about and grew over the years into what it was. The towns people didn't seem to have any concerns over it's location as it had been there a long time and many of them worked there.