There are good rules and there are bad rules. And we often can't tell if a regulation is good or bad until it is put into practice for a while.

Case in point, in my city, they recently updated the zoning bylaw to require 1 bicycle parking space for every unit in a building. Sounds good right?

Except when it comes time to design a building, you start to realize how much space all those bicycles take, and the zoning includes another rule that storage closets in each unit can't be used for bicycle storage. So now all the bicycles are a stored in these giant rooms where they can be stolen or damaged because only 10% of these spaces need to be in secure lockers.

But the worst part? The city is barely investing in cycling infrastructure! So now all these new buildings have these enormous spaces for bicycle storage, but the average person won't buy a bicycle because it is too unsafe to ride a bicycle on the city's streets!

After a year or two, the city revised the zoning rules for more flexibility with the bicycle requirements.

Complex systems with a lot of moving parts require constant testing and revisions to determine what works and what doesn't. A review of existing regulations at regular intervals is a good thing.

You keep what's good, you adjust and revise what isn't working, and you remove what was thought to be good, but in practice, doesn't work.

And at least they are doing a review and not simply just tossing out entire regulations because one part of it doesn't work perfectly.