[gitmo]

Our city is struggling with these issues now.

The uptown development consortium is bashing "urban sprawl" constantly, pushing laws to force businesses into the central part of the city. The result: more and more traffic congestion as an increasing number of people have to go to the center of the city to work. Dumb gone to seed. Except for the uptown development consortium. Those folks are getting richer and richer through government intervention.

They have forced extravagent bus systems, with designated bus lanes on the highways. So we have 33% of the highways reserved for empty taxpayer-supplied empty vehicles.

So now, we have to go to light rail. The empty buses on empty highways aren't able to get enough people into the government-designated work area. So we are going to force people out of their homes, to build an extremely expensive government transportation system.

[Willie Green]

The uptown development consortium is bashing "urban sprawl" constantly, pushing laws to force businesses into the central part of the city.

I don't know of any law that is capable of "forcing" businesses into a city.
Usually such attempts have the opposite effect.
OTOH, cities often offer incentives, subsidies or other enticements to attract businesses to their location. Such enticements include adequate services such as fire/police protection and efficient transportation systems.