Comment by potato3732842

>but the sum total of the community's efforts and entrepenural spirits.

More like "was too rural or too poor in the 70s/80s/90s to indulge in the then trendy policy like zoning the crap out of themselves and passing a bunch of ordinances more akin to country club rules thereby making incremental growth and development actually possible in the 2010s and 2020s"

Because most development today seems to correlate with whether or not that particular policy bullet got dodged than culture or spirit or anything like that.