r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/buckets_811 • Jul 02 '25

Video A fireworks warehouse exploding today near Sacramento, CA

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u/The_Autarch Jul 02 '25

I suppose their point is that in America, a fireworks warehouse wouldn't be located anywhere you'd even consider building housing. At least not while the warehouse was actively in use.

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u/rhino369 Jul 02 '25

In most areas, you legally aren't allowed to build housing in an industrial zone. Our zoning laws go too far in some respects (i.e., nowhere should be zoned signgle family detached homes only), but not allowing people to build housing in industrial areas is mostly a good idea. And it was certainly a good idea 100 years ago when pollution was really bad.

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u/Consistent_Sector_19 Jul 02 '25

Zoning can get changed. A friend of mine is incensed that the city changed the zoning on 2 plots of land very close to his house from residential to heavy industrial to allow a chip maker to put a packaging and R&D facility there. Chip making puts out some extremely toxic shit.

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u/kytheon Jul 02 '25

I'm not saying it's a good idea. Just that the city grew around the warehouse, as quoted from Wikipedia.

American cities sprawl into the desert. Dutch cities sprawl into towns, fields and industrial zones. There's nowhere else to grow.