Zoning needs to take dangerous industries into account when granting building permits.

[CK_John]

We should require new plants be sited away for homes and schools.

We also must not allow new homes and schools to be built near dangerous existing plants.

Also these plants need to come clean and start paying for health/safety burdens placed on their community.

[FSogol]

1. And we should close the barn door BEFORE the cow gets out.

[hobbit709]

2. I doubt West had much in the way of zoning.

most rural communities in TX don't. And no amount of zoning does much if the plant is outside the city limits.

[Sheepshank]

3. State of Texas has gutted zoning regulators

the people in Zoning in other states are well aware that Texas has very little teeth in any of their Zoning regulations. The state of Texas has hampered the powers of the individual towns and Cities.

That's one of the thing Perry is so proud to use as a draw for businesses to move to Texas.

[tularetom]

4. "Forget it Jake, it's Chinatown"

Or in this case, Texas.

[denverbill]

5. This company specifically stated they posed no fire danger.

How do you regulate that if companies are allowed to determine themselves the risk they pose to the public?

[ipfilter]

6. I wouldn't call this a plant.

There is a fertilizer plant outside of my home town where anhydrous ammonia is produced. It is a large industrial plant located a few miles out of town. It's a rather large complex.



The "plant" in West Texas looks nothing like this.



This looks more like a fertilizer co-op found in any rural town across all of the Midwest and Great Plains.

[CK_John]

7. So we need to accept this danger. I don't buy it. Banks should be sued

for lending to unsafe developers.

Insurance co should be fined for not with holding coverage to apts/nursing homes.

Federal medical monies should be denied to nursing homes in dangerous areas.

[ipfilter]

9. These places were built decades ago

and they exist in every single rural farming community. What I'm saying is these places are everywhere and they are not heavy industrial plants. The media is calling this place a plant as if it were some sort of major industrial complex and it is not. The plant I posted above is an actual producer of anhydrous ammonia. It is situated several miles out of town and the plant itself is probably the size of West Tx.

[CK_John]

10. So it needs change. Change it.

[uponit7771]

8. Nah, too much gubMent