There's a lot of reasons for zoning, not all of them are bad, even if most are. Preventing building a duplex around single family homes? Probably doesn't have f

There's a lot of reasons for zoning, not all of them are bad, even if most are. Preventing building a duplex around single family homes? Probably doesn't have fantastic reasons behind it. Preventing building a 50 stories skyscraper in the middle though? Obviously not gonna happen, but if it did, can the infrastructure, the sewers, the streets take it? Is it just going to make thousands of people miserable, can the schools take it? Obviously this is a silly extreme case, but there's plenty of borderline situations that aren't super cut and dry. Having SOME zoning in certain areas makes sense. Of course the ones discussed in this case aren't for these reasons, and they're probably bad. There's still a lot of subtleties to that problem space.