[shados]

The big difference between most of America and Japan is that people on this side don't give a shit about each other. So if you want to be able to sleep at night without dealing with constant frat parties and the police telling you to just deal with it, your only option is to live in a low density area, with no shop around, on a small dead end street.

So people get very opinionated when it comes to zoning, and it ends up done sub optimally.

Put some teeth on laws that make it so a single person can make 200 others miserable with no repercussion, and all of a sudden most resistance to proper zoning will go away.