Not speaking for OP, but when people are commenting on affordability and talk about getting rid of zoning, they typically mean "making it easy to build resident

Not speaking for OP, but when people are commenting on affordability and talk about getting rid of zoning, they typically mean "making it easy to build residential dwellings in areas zoned residential." Unfortunately, this is not the case in much of the country now. For example, if you own a single-family home, you are not likely able to: - convert it to a duplex, triplex, or quadplex without changing the footprint of the building - build an ADU for another resident on your property, even if it will fit and otherwise be up to code - tear your house down and build a 5-story residential building These codes aren't about preventing meatpacking plants from being built in residential neighborhoods as much as they are about creating an artificial ceiling on the number of residents of a residential neighborhood.