The takeaway I got from this article is not that there's something so great about malls for redevelopment, but that restrictive zoning laws are the real problem

The takeaway I got from this article is not that there's something so great about malls for redevelopment, but that restrictive zoning laws are the real problem. It seems to me that what this piece is describing is a hack that governments have found to make residence-friendly zoning changes without running into the buzzsaw of NIMBYism.