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A little planning nightmare coming before the Board of Supervisors on Tuesday should serve as a cautionary tale for anyone who works in planning, is a politician, a developer, a business owner of any kind, a homeowner, or simply wants a home in a neighborhood they like. This one, relatively small issue neatly encapsulates our biggest problem — not thinking ahead. We’ve done a poor job of that over the years (in the city and county) with some pretty necessary items. Roads and sewers come to mind, but also compatibility. The problem supervisors face on Tuesday is they either have to tell hundreds of residents in northwest Bakersfield to suck it up and deal with a noisy, dust-belching concrete crushing and recycling plant plopped in their midst. Or, they have tell the guy proposing the plant that stupid planning decisions over the last 30 years mean you can’t trust zoning laws in this community and that, essentially, he’s gonna get hosed. The County...
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