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I sadly don't think that is practical. Housing costs would go down if it was legal to build 20 story apartment buildings in areas currently zoned for single family homes. As a political YIMBY I would love to see this happen - but don't see how a court could be given discretion on its own to decide which zoning measures should be eliminated and which have legitimate reasons to exist.

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Courts don't have to make these types of decisions, however they can issue increasingly steep fines against governments until the problem is solved. This happened, for example, in Washington State with funding for schools not being adequate, and in violation of the law. The courts issued massive fines, and increased them, until the legal funding requirements were met.

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