I think I wasn't clear. When I say incentivize mixed zoning, I meant that the federal government would incentivize local governments choosing to zone land as mi

I think I wasn't clear. When I say incentivize mixed zoning, I meant that the federal government would incentivize local governments choosing to zone land as mixed use. Then people can build whatever they want. It's not possible to remove zoning completely. That's severe hubris, thinking that we introduced zoning to begin with for no legitimate reason. That's not true - it's necessary to plan city infrastructure and that requires zoning. Removing zoning altogether would be an unmitigated disaster. There is no easy clean solution like "remove all the rules". You can't get government out of the business of city planning and basic infrastructure, and that's in more words what you mean. There is a difference between good policy and bad policy. We need good policy. The only solution is that local governments somehow make better choices.