Ironically the only businesses left are the chains that could afford to comply.
We keep a close eye on the township board to make sure they don't get any bright ideas.
This is why Gates, Zuckerberg, Soros, et al., are all mega-leftards. Trump is another matter. Building high-end real estate and country clubs is itself a big business. There are no mom and pop skyscrapers in Manhattan. Mara Lago is unique, and just getting together enough contiguous land for a golf course takes anyone with a shoestring budget out of the running. So the only competition is other big-time developers trying to buy the choice parcels. Regulation is a hindrance, not a help, to a large development, no matter how high your budget is. It’s a license to bureaucratic a$$holes to hint subtly that they want to be paid off.