Sure, let that new apartment building come up. Screw everyone's commute time, ability to park, availability of services - no, we won't issue enough permits, require the construction come with a massive underground parking facility, ensure there's sufficient expansion of roads, or drastically improve transit.

Improvements have a history of being so slow to appear and in a deficient state, that the prospect of having more people around makes people unhappy.

"The middle class always pays".