[ianai]

Those policies are influenced at the local level. Unfortunately they’re also often basically controlled by special interests. If anything could change it, it would be people en masse taking an interest in local elections at significant rates. There’s no voting power larger, in the US, than the people who sit out. It’d also mean going to meetings, probably.

[calvinmorrison]

Also by neighbors. I don't think it's unreasonable for neighborhoods to have a say in what zoning exist