 And I do mean waste because normally builders would realize that while people like having extra land, they don't like it enough to actually pay anything close to the market price unless, obviously, the government says that you are not allowed to go and build on anything less than an acre, in which case they are stuck. Minimum parking requirements also wind up mattering a lot. Seems like a picky point, but when you look at the numbers, it's very common to say that builders have to build two or three parking spaces per resident.