[nforgerit]

Not at all. E.g. Germany requires housing projects to build "enough parking lots" for newly built flats[0]. The result is that flats either don't get built at all or "green surfaces" (or playgrounds) get transformed into parking lots.

So the _real world_ result is, as a society, we favor parking lots over homelessness or green surfaces which is contradictory to pretty much everything else we're discussing. These laws are from times in which the legislator thought of them to be a good idea. Times have changed, the regulation hasn't and nobody is talking about exactly those issues. There's plenty more of those examples which can only lead you to the conclusion that most finely granular regulation is rather harmful than helpful.

[0] https://dejure.org/gesetze/LBO/37.html (German, it might be different from federal state to state)

[realityking]

Of course these get revisited (e.g. here[0] for your example) but in the case of parking spots there‘s a sizable pro-car lobby.

0: https://www.stuttgarter-zeitung.de/inhalt.landesbauordnung-b...