To what end?
Whatever the zoning is (whether its mandating some form of development you agree with or some form you don’t agree with) it is telling property owners what they can and cannot do with their property which is not free market.
I cannot understand why so many people (as evidenced by many discussion on the subject hear at FR and other conservative sites) cannot grasp this.
Zoning is ANTI FREE MARKET. If you support it as an ends to justify some means, then you cannot unhypocritically complain when other people do the same.
Total free market would be to allow a 10 story apartment building - for example - to be plopped in the middle of neighborhood of detached single family homes.
Maybe I miss your point. Happy to have clarification.