I absolutely believe big urban areas like NYC should be building wherever they can. But somewhere reliant on tourism like a small beach town has a much more del

I absolutely believe big urban areas like NYC should be building wherever they can. But somewhere reliant on tourism like a small beach town has a much more delicate dance to do. If you mindlessly build up you will alter the “product” you are offering your tourist customers and could easily wreck that balance of livable for locals and desirable for tourists. Before the boom in short term rentals a lot of these places simply had a set capacity. Only so many hotel rooms available on any given night and when the town’s capacity for tourism is full, it’s full. The locals lived in properties that weren’t suitable for tourists, the local businesses made enough money to thrive. There’s not actually anything inherently wrong with that. A tourist town doesn’t have to keep expanding to meet demand.