Yes, it can. That's why we're a republic the operates according to the rule of law, and not a democracy where the majority can legally vote to do whatever it would like.
Limiting housing in a urban area leads to housing being built further afield, resulting in more commuting, traffic, and traffic deaths.
Could have come straight from the founding fathers.
“There’s a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious—makes you so sick at heart—that you can’t take part. You can’t even passively take part.
“And you’ve got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you’ve got to make it stop.
“And you’ve got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it that unless you’re free, the machine will be prevented from working at all.” - Mario Savio, Free Speech Movement Founder, Sproul Hall Steps, December 2, 1964
Yeah, that pesky ol’ democracy getting in the way of Berzerkly’s enlightened central planners - c’mon comrade, get with the program !
Coming out of Berserkly, this pretty funny.