Industry Standards?

From San Francisco CITYSCAPE, "Rezoning of the inner Bay Area's industrial districts for the 21st Century not only cannot possibly please everyone; it may not please anyone."

"Where developers and housing advocates see abandoned wastelands, anti-gentrification activists demand a blue-collar reserve and buffers against displacement."

"Housing over light industry, we suspect, could work in most cases; so why is there so much less "urban mixed-use" zoning, requiring one square foot of industry for every five square feet of housing, than "employment and business development" — requiring five square feet of industry for every square foot of housing? Since housing can occupy higher floors, but industry can't, the latter zoning effectively bans residences on all but the largest sites."

"Here's an idea: Let's make reasonable allowances for both industry and housing in your more accessible locations. Housing over industry should be reasonably affordable, and that could go some way toward alleviating anti-gentrification activists' fears."