Which law are you breaking if you build no housing whatsoever?
Notice that there are many cases of this where that kind of outcome is what you want, e.g. if there is a law against operating e-bikes above 20 MPH and a law against going below 40 MPH on the freeway and the de facto result is "no e-bikes on the freeway" then that's a pretty reasonable outcome.
Whereas "no new housing" is a presumably unintended absurdity, but that doesn't mean you're guaranteed a way out of it.
There are also many cases where rather than being required to do something impossible you're required to do something infeasible, which in practice is the same thing but then they get to point to the entire mountain of shit you'd be required to eat and suggest that you do that.
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Which law are you breaking if you build no housing whatsoever?
Notice that there are many cases of this where that kind of outcome is what you want, e.g. if there is a law against operating e-bikes above 20 MPH and a law against going below 40 MPH on the freeway and the de facto result is "no e-bikes on the freeway" then that's a pretty reasonable outcome.
Whereas "no new housing" is a presumably unintended absurdity, but that doesn't mean you're guaranteed a way out of it.
There are also many cases where rather than being required to do something impossible you're required to do something infeasible, which in practice is the same thing but then they get to point to the entire mountain of shit you'd be required to eat and suggest that you do that.