"Infrastructure is expensive" It's not, relative to other costs. Septic costs around $10k and trenching sewer to lots in urban areas is relatively cheap. Homes

"Infrastructure is expensive" It's not, relative to other costs. Septic costs around $10k and trenching sewer to lots in urban areas is relatively cheap. Homes on septic are very common and are already regulated. There are also many plots of relatively cheap land with sewer access. I can think of about 20+ buildable acres in my city, for example. The only thing holding back construction is an onerous and expensive permitting process which mostly focuses on visual aspects of the potential development. Sewer hookups for dense living isn't the part of the permitting process that's the problem. "This method may be laws and governments of varying qualities." We are discussing situations where the aggregate impact of these laws becomes a net negative.