[Dutch Boy]

Sounds like a lie to either raise property values or some other underhanded move. BTW - It's the USA. If it's too crowded in one place move to another.

[headsonpikes]

"Sounds like a lie to either raise property values or some other underhanded move."

A winner on the first response!

Development restrictions are favored by developers with less desirable properties, and by existing property owners. Both of these groups seek to use the state to advance their economic interests.

This is the tragic flaw of all attempts to use the government for 'good' purposes, as contrasted with the necessary war-making and criminal justice functions of the state, which are unproductive economically of goods that consumers can use. The rhetoric of good purposes always disguises the reality of self-interest.

It's all about the money.