[ElevenLathe]

> homebuyers just are the municipality

I think in most US states, the legal situation is actually that local governments are creations of the state. They are allowed to have their own ordinances and so on as a matter of convenience, to avoid state legislators having to bother worrying about every edge case that only comes up in one county, but they do not have a right to exist independent of the state saying that they do. There are exceptions, but municipal ordinances (and HOA rules) can be overridden by state law.

We don't /have/ to let all these little NIMBY fiefdoms exist. They exist at the pleasure of the state legislature, and therefore voters statewide, not just locally (modulo gerrymandering, a big caveat).

[bombcar]

We're seeing that play out right now in California, the state overrode local areas and the problem hasn't gone away, it's shifted to other avenues.

If you don't change hearts and minds they'll keep fighting against it via any method available.