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Implicit but unreasonable.

Successful areas change: you get a few people, then you need a store, then you get more people and all of sudden there's nowhere to walk, so you make a park and some avenues, then people like those and move in, then you need a school and a hardware store and a power plant even if the OGs were homeschoolers with donkey power and hate your guts.

Don't like it? Hold on to the land.

Dire Straits' Telegraph Road is a good documentary on the subject.

It isn't clear that upzoning reduces property values, as it increases the potential productivity of a given parcel of land.

People have all sorts of unreasonable expectations and we are not obliged to honor them.

Upzoning increases property values, because the increased flexibility for development makes the land more valuable.