[havetocharge]

There's a degree of purpose to artificial scarcity though. If construction is completely unchecked, then the demand, and load on infrastructure can reach a point where it becomes unusable to everyone,old and new residents.

I've lived in Toronto for a long time, and after pockets of th city got rezoned and high-rise construction was allowed, it created a situation where it was not possible to get onto public transit during peak hours, and people resorted to walking to work for 45 min instead of their planned 15 min commute when they brought their condos pre-construction. Similarly the growth of immediate Toronto suburbs has been so immense, that it is not possible to get a seat on the subway if you don't board at the terminus station (as suburbanites fill them). The city is addressing these problems through transit expansion, but it is taking decades for each project to complete (example https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line_5_Eglinton).

The main point is, zoning in a vacuum is not evil, or if more palatable, a necessary evil.

[mrfusion]

You say these things like they’re facts. But no sources.