I’m tired of this. This is the 3rd time I’ve heard this. The 1st was by his attorney Joe Zator during the LMT zoning board hearings.

This being, Mr. Jaindl calling his “warehousevilles” smart growth. It’s mind numbing and insulting to hear this bastardization of smart growth principle.

Jaindl quoted as calling a warehouse project “smart growth” over at Bernie’s blog.

Here ARE the universally accepted 10 principles of Smart Growth.
1. Strengthen and direct development towards existing communities
2. Foster distinctive, attractive communities with a strong sense of place
3. Encourage community and stakeholder collaboration in development decisions
4. Make development decisions predictable, fair, and cost effective
5. Preserve open space, farmland, natural beauty, and critical environmental areas
6. Mix land uses
7. Create a range of housing opportunities and choices
8. Take advantage of compact building design
9. Create walkable neighborhoods
10. Provide a variety of transportation choices

You can CLEARLY see, what Jaindl does. He cherry picks item number 6 taking it out of context while ignoring 1, 2, 3 & 4 (in the case of LMT), 8, 9 and 10. He categorizes projects as mixed use because he frequently does put warehouses next to residential developments. Aside from ignoring most if not all of the other tenets, simply physically putting a warehouse next to a housing project is not the intent of the “mixed use” tenet.

Yes, SG encourages mixed use neighborhoods. Meaning that in today’s world you can live next to many commercial uses without affecting your quality of life. For ex. cafe’s, high end retail, services like hair salons, medical, ect. ect. ect.

SG encourages this because you can pack more into a compact area (tenets 1 & 8) therefore the taxpayer gets more return on our infrastructure investments and we grow in a more sustainable way.

Remember, we have Euclidean zoning (based on the town Euclid where it was first used) because it seperates INCOMPATIBLE uses. Back in the day we needed a mechanism to separate noisy industrial uses from our residential areas. Nowadays we just don’t have many noisy factories/industrial uses anymore and SG principle states you can now put COMPATIBLE uses together.

But what we have here with Jaindl’s warehouses is the EXACT reason we NEEDED Euclidean zoning for the last 5 decades and still do need it in some cases. These are noisy, unsightly ugly distribution centers. They are QOL killers. They are EXACTLY the reason for Euclidean zoning. They are completely incompatible with residential uses. (Trucks, Noise, aesthetics)