> : strict zoning, housing codes, permits for most major building actions, minimum parking requirements... Yeah, a bit of hyperbole. It seems more that the mes

> : strict zoning, housing codes, permits for most major building actions, minimum parking requirements... Yeah, a bit of hyperbole. It seems more that the mess of regulations are just patches on top of patches, sometimes with conflicting intent and not with much long term design. And a lot of it is controlled at a extremely local level. This means we end up with paradoxes where everyone acknowledges that we need more houses, nobody wants to densify areas near themselves. It's always someone else's problem. It's the same story with power shortages in California. We need more generation but plant after plant was denied because the locals objected to the proposal for building near them. It's clear we need planning at the state level and override local municipalities to force development. If they complain then the response should be "you had your chance to solve it and blew it. Too late now. "