And like I've said, without a safezone, noone's going to walk a bunch of rare parts into there to get constructed.
TH is empy and will remain so all the time there's noone to use it. Tradeskills could bring more life into it.
And all the time people have attitudes like yours LEs will remain in since there's no point in trying to make a clan with it's own identity any more since regardless of faction, everyone sits in Plaza 1. Since there's no gain to removing LE other than the ability to clan, why would people bother?
Amusingly you two that both have an issue with this are both in the same CA clan, with the HQ in plaza 1. It's not really a surprise that you want to keep everything on your doorstep. There's no reason not to make TH2 a safezone since it's empty and noone uses it, so it won't impact you at all, and it's not like traders are currently hanging around in non-safezones and will suddenly have somewhere safe to go.