Zoning needs to be logical. Not allowing any residential in commercial is ridiculous for instance. We had homes above businesses for longer than we haven't and

Zoning needs to be logical. Not allowing any residential in commercial is ridiculous for instance. We had homes above businesses for longer than we haven't and dropping them was a mistake. Industrial restrictions are fine. Commercial restrictions could be okay if we allowed anything within walking distance of most homes. It isn't that zoning laws are bad it is that the current set don't match what we should be planning for. Making up examples where you could piss someone off on purpose is pointless and avoids actually engaging on my point. Why does something you could gain but never actually valued something you should be paid for. In many cases people simply block because "there will be more traffic" as if they have a right to a certain amount of traffic. You can gain benefits for free but stop pretending society needs to pay you to remove those benefits. On the topic of culture: gentrification has been ignored so I don't care fundamentally. Mostly "culture" is just a new form of redlining "I don't want to be near poor people they are gross".