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I don't know it seems like there could be valid reasons for wanting these kinds of ordinances. Cities have legitimate reasons to be concerned about aesthetics. If you live in a nice neighborhood you don't want your neighbor across the street parking a couple of old shipping containers on a lot, and calling it their home. It's an eyesore, and it has the potential to lower the value of your home. To me, increased housing costs are a problem that a city can largely decide how to solve for itself.
I listen to Conservatives bitch and moan about walls because they want to use it to keep immigrants out. That's idiotic, but cities do have a right to protect against overpopulation and overcrowding. If limiting the number of houses available helps them accomplish that I'd say it's to a certain degree within their right. If you chose to move to an area because it was a bit more rural, and then all of a sudden a million people try and move there you have a legitimate reason to be bothered by it and have at least some influence over how many people can come to your town, as well as influence the quality of resident moving there.
You just HAD to make this pleasant thread POLITICAL, didn't you.
We went 36 posts without any mention of Conservative / Liberal.