&gt;Minimum setbacks, yard size requirements, etc. -- these are all things that people want and continue to pay for<p>If these are what people want, this regulation wouldn&#x27;t be required, now would it? Anyone who built anything else would go bankrupt.<p>Unfortunately for the theory that this is what people want, cities are still full of people and have the most expensive real estate. Walkable areas generally command a premium over car only areas. Locations near transit tend to be more expensive than those not near transit.<p>Funny how in places where we stop mandating sprawl, the sprawl goes away. Compare Arlington, VA in the 1970s vs. 2010s; it had all of these regulations near the Metro lines before it was built (and kept them not near Metro) but relaxed them after the Metro was built. It&#x27;s night and day. I can point to dozens of places where once these rules go away, the sprawl goes away.