[Amasuriel]

I don’t know what they are like in California, but where I live in Canada developers are generally disliked because

1) They tend to build houses not communities, for example it’s rare a developer will include parks, community spaces like markets, bike lanes, plant trees, or do anything else to make the housing tracts livable

2) They don’t tend to expand infrastructure to match, so you get developers getting approved to put 10000 houses on a 1 lane each direction road, or housing going in without adequate medical service or other necessities, which puts strain on the existing community resources

3) they are constantly lobbying local government to let them build in forests, wetlands and other natural habitat, so if you care about that at all you generally have a bad view of developers

Combine all this with generally extremely poor build quality results in people viewing developers as adversaries for the most part.

[sagarm]

It's not a developers job to build infrastructure IMO, it's the city's job to build infrastructure and zone appropriately.