That’s not an unreasonable opinion, but to answer your question “why”, the answer is because a democratically elected state legislature has decided it’s in the

That’s not an unreasonable opinion, but to answer your question “why”, the answer is because a democratically elected state legislature has decided it’s in the best interest of their constituents to make it this way. And state power supersedes municipal power. Nobody’s upzoned a state over one nice expensive neighborhood but when the crisis starts harming the state economy, then the state legislature obviously cares.