[mint2]

While the overall point is good, For more pollution prone industries it would be very risky not to prohibit housing next to it, otherwise it’s dooming poor people and their kids to health issues and early death. For example, battery recycler in the past have lead to massive heavy metal pollution in the vicinity.

So for the most risky industrial facilities housing should be prohibited, but for all others yeah it should be mostly hierarchical.

[ClumsyPilot]

in Many EU contries a house has to meet sone limits on noise and other pollution or it will not be allowed to be sold as a residential property.

[clairity]

rather than arbitrary zoning rules and an implicit pass for such obvious and wanton pollution, those businesses should be regulated and heavily punished (too bad the supreme court made things like this harder not easier recently). that's a literal externality. it's the kind of thing where the corporate veil should be pierced mercilessly, and the executives and owners all held personally culpable.

then it wouldn't matter who lived next door.

[mint2]

Theoretically and on paper that would be a nice proposition. Unfortunately we are humans. That will not work