Now there may have been historical problems with letting developers do whatever they want, including criminal disregard for human life and exacerbating the problems us yimbys want to solve. But since I already talked about them in this article we can pretend I actually addressed these concerns.
That's because zoning board meetings are only meant to rubber stamp what developers want to do: make money. Any zoning board that goes against the moneyed interests will find themselves co-opted in the next election