Back in February of this year, I posted an article on how badly broken our “Industrial Zoning” process is broken in the USA. The article was titled: “FAILURES of true “facility siting” – our “zoning” process is broken and dangerous!” and it was about a chemical plant’s pleas to the city council to not rezone 22 acres next door to them so that a developer can build five (5) four-story buildings containing 308 housing units with a 10,000-square-foot clubhouse, a five-story hotel with 122 rooms, a 15,000-square-foot retail building, a 10,800-square-foot pharmacy, and a 4,000-square-foot restaurant. The plant lost their debate and the council approved the project. Since then I have learned of a half-dozen more cases where city councils have voted to approve rezoning for housing or large commercial (non-industrial) developments next to serious chemical plants. This new case, also in FL but a different city, approved a nearly 500-unit apartment complex to be built next to an active chlorine plant.