> You also need to build your house to an exact specification that your local government came up with, of which you have no control over.
Things are much less dire than this. My city’s zoning doesn’t come anywhere near an exact specification for buildings. It sets certain minima and maxima, but to call those an “exact specification” is a gross exaggeration.
Further, even if you need a variance from elements of the zoning, those are generally easy to get if there’s good cause (or in practice in our city, merely a not entirely unreasonable reason).
Things are much less dire than this. My city’s zoning doesn’t come anywhere near an exact specification for buildings. It sets certain minima and maxima, but to call those an “exact specification” is a gross exaggeration.
Further, even if you need a variance from elements of the zoning, those are generally easy to get if there’s good cause (or in practice in our city, merely a not entirely unreasonable reason).