

Level-headed response and you’re right that local zoning is handled locally.
If the community doesn’t want a business around they have to show up to the city council meetings and organize their neighbors against it. That’s how it works and I can speak from experience that it does actually work sometimes, at least with bars in mixed-use areas IME.
Wow I’d never heard of that and it’s really interesting. It reminds me of a few different periods of my life when smoking heavily would make me really “gaggy” and sometimes make me unable to eat for an hour or two after. I’ve thrown up a few times from just “hitting it too hard” but never considered it could actually be a known thing.