I don't think it's useful to conflate construction code style regulation and NIMBYism. There can be excess of the former, but ultimately rules-based regulation

I don't think it's useful to conflate construction code style regulation and NIMBYism. There can be excess of the former, but ultimately rules-based regulation isn't the worst. NIMBYism and other discretionary review adds more much delays and uncertainty and that is the Achilles heel. Ultimately we need build out the literal and metaphorical supply chains, i.e. do the same thing over and over and over again. Economies of scale are real, and so are diseconomies of discale, and the latter is the NIMBY's greatest weapon for collective action. Are Stadtbahns the SMRs of transit?