This observation could be made about anything. If more restaurants open, more people will go out to eat. If more people go out to eat, restaurants will make more money. A vicious cycle! Soon everyone in the world will eat lunch in our city, every day! The humanity!<p>In fact, interesting yet flawed theories of supply and demand are seldom used to justify some sort of &quot;protect existing restaurateurs&#x27; oligopoly&quot; law. That isn&#x27;t to say that it isn&#x27;t valid to limit the number or type of restaurant in any particular area for e.g. safety reasons. But that has to be process-based, not just a declaration that this neighborhood has enough.<p>You can&#x27;t argue that allowing single-family structures to be replaced by e.g. townhomes in a reasonable fashion is somehow beyond us as a society.