>>509334464>if it is all built to code?That's a big if, and the kind of people who do things like this also tend to be the people who either don't know or care about actually building anything to code. They will do some of the dumbest, most retarded, dangerous shit out of being a cheapskate and having illusory superiority.
>Why do these permits and zoning laws even exist?Partially to prevent retards from building shit that they shouldn't be building, and partially to keep things from spiraling into utter third world chaos.
If you are in charge of public works and building and maintaining infrastructure and roads and all of that, and you know that people are only going to be allowed to build X number of houses in a certain area, it's easy to do the math and figure exactly what you need to keep everything working properly.
But if people were allowed to just randomly build whatever they want all willy-nilly, then it becomes impossible to deal with all of it, and the additional people quickly overwhelm the existing infrastructure and the sewage system starts backing up, traffic jams, blackouts, etc. All of the same shit that happens in third world countries where people do just randomly build shit everywhere.