It is a little crazy. I live in a pretty little New England village that is very walkable and has a functioning two-block downtown (real grocery stores, banks,

It is a little crazy. I live in a pretty little New England village that is very walkable and has a functioning two-block downtown (real grocery stores, banks, pharmacy, etc with 2nd and 3rd floor apartments). The crazy thing is the current town zoning would not allow for most of the existing small lot residential and all of the downtown commercial properties to be built now due to minimum lot sizes and parking requirements. We already have a hole in the middle of downtown due to a couple of local part time real estate investors buying the one eyesore and having to tear it down as it was literally falling down and then not being allowed to rebuild on the same footprint because of the need for 1 car parking space per bedroom for their upper floor apartments. I see the need for some zoning but enacting laws that directly prevent the thing that everyone that lives here loves about the town is crazy.