>They're driven by voters who want businesses to have more parking than business owners would pay for, given the choice. And even then it's only the vocal mino

>They're driven by voters who want businesses to have more parking than business owners would pay for, given the choice. And even then it's only the vocal minority. Nobody who doesn't have an axe to grind shows up to the zoning committee meeting on such an item. A huge amount of specific policy winds up being driven by Karens and NIMBYs who will vote for anything that drives up cost because it tends to drive out everything that isn't Startbucks or similar. You'll have some policy and the number everyone thinks is fine is X but the Karens get to screeching and the number goes up to 12 because the people who were ok with 8 are also ok with Y but the Karens wouldn't settle for less.