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As reported by V Smoothe in NovoMetro, the CED Committee will today hear a new zoning proposal for industrial areas of Oakland. Most of the details of the zoning are uncontroversial, and the Council passed a resolution declaring industrial lands a “scarce resource” by a lopsided vote last Tuesday. But, as with all other debates over complex zoning codes, the devil is in the details. And the details of this code reveal that Oakland’s planners and Planning Commissioners are utterly divorced from reality.