>Make a cash payment to neighbors while construction is happening to compensate for the nuisance, give them equity in your new building if their view is damaged

>Make a cash payment to neighbors while construction is happening to compensate for the nuisance, give them equity in your new building if their view is damaged, obligate builders to also build bus stops/bike lanes/whatever to make the streets navigable with high density, mixed use construction with privacy to avoid strangers. Half of what you say is indistinguishable from zoning (the transit part). The other half runs into the problem of people not agreeing to the compensation. The reality is that what you do on your property impacts my property and utilizes public resources. There has to be some mechanism to regulate that and enforce those regulations. The problem isn't the concept of zoning but how it has been applied.