Dig into any social problem deep enough and eventually you'll find some businessman at the bottom of it.

And this pretty much defines the enormous perceptual gap between us.

In my own experience, and in every damn example I have referred to in this thread, it's the government and special interest bureaucrats that have been the sand in the gears.

You're welcome to post counterexamples where developers, entrepreneurs, businesses looking to expand or build new facilities, or any private entity trying to construct something anywhere; has decided it would be a swell idea to do something that vastly increases the costs to the company and the difficulty of completing the project and eventually turning a profit.

You know a bit about planning departments. Try and remember the last time they made someone's job easier instead of harder.