Many people do like that. But there is a difference between "Allow people to build a single family detached home" and "make illegal anything except building a s

Many people do like that. But there is a difference between "Allow people to build a single family detached home" and "make illegal anything except building a single family detached home". If you look at traditional american towns, there are a lot of walkable nice towns with nothing but detached homes, but they didn't have the same setback requirements as they do now.