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>This is the entire premise of zoning laws among other regulations.

And then people complain not enough houses are getting built.

The law can be used for good things or bad things. I think we still need laws though.

Yes, a giant building running gas turbines that employs 12 people is exactly the same as housing that hundreds of families could live in.

Absolutely nothing was being built there before. Its a data center vs zero houses.