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You clearly are completely ignorant with regards to development.

Municipalities throughout the country have zoning laws. These zoning laws dictate what can be constructed on the land. That way smelting company isn't built next to a daycare.

Municipalities, through their zoning laws dictate what size lots are permitted on a plot of land, how that plot of land is broken up, the number and type of units (i.e. senior citizen, condos, affordable, mansions, etc.). The purpose is to control development so that municipal services, i.e. roads, schools are NOT overwhelmed and to assure that developers don't cater to the highest profit housing leaving most citizens without the ability to buy a house (that is the danger of these investment firms buying all of these residential properties- the control over costs is thrown out as the investment firms care only for profit.

You do realize that there are professionals who study (at universities) how to plan a municipality, right? They understand demographics, environmental impacts, transportation, and help design laws to protect society from over or poor development.

I'll give you an example.

I have a client town that pushed for an massive increase in housing, because that increased property tax income. Except they didn't consider demographics. So, now a few years later, the town's schools are overwhelmed with kids as the demographics of the development encouraged young families, who all started having kids around the same time. Now they have like 40 kids per classroom in elementary school and less than 20 kids per classroom in HS. Busing is now a HUGE issue as kids are bussed all over town (in a semi-urban environment making traffic a nightmare).

That is why government plan and zone housing.

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