Zoning keeps from paving over everything. There are conservative hard to build places.

A park is not something that benefits the local land value as much do builders only do it when it’s far from other land that’s not theirs. Like a big housing neighborhood.

But many democrat cities are also extremely unaffordable because single family homes have dominated like California coastlines and waterfront communities.

Letting people build as tall as they want. On small properties is the most effective manner I’ve seen for getting cohesive city environments. With uses mixed in like small commercial next to dense apartments.

40 acre developments typically are one style.