I don't see how sarcasm futhered any point. If you're trying to ridicule, it's gone the other way. How can it be illegal of so many people are doing it? I wish it was illegal. I wish any bank and builder that proposed another high density unaffordable housing development to sell to foreign investors would be put in prison. Then we might actually solve something. What's really ridiculous is someone like you siding with the scum as of it's some higher moral code of conduct. But you only believe in that code by of conduct because banks and builders invested in washing your brain to believe that high density housing is somehow good despite it being the most destructive lifestyle towards the environment, homelessnrss, happiness, etc.
It's obviously not illegal. Everywhere that they try to make it illegal, builders and banks come in and lobby to ensure that they are allowed to further condense housing so that they can squeeze that much more out of every invested dollar and save on building materials in the name of "affordable housing" that none of us can afford.
I haven't. Let me know what I'm missing. If you're going to say the HOA stopped you, that's not a criminal law issue, that's a civil dispute. Meaning it's not illegal it's agreed upon by society to be annoying and deserving of a monetary disadvantage.
Not in the US, but possibly in your city. But even then, I bet you can't show me the city code that prevents it. Why? Because it's ABSOLUTELY legal, as long as someone approves it for you. Who? Well, someone who sits on city council and approves it for builders and banks, not chumps like your broke ass trying to turn a fourplex. Of course you can't do it! They wouldn't want your affordable fourplex driving down the price of their bank buddies' loft apartments at a million plus downtown. This is a slam dunk example of why high density is a bullshit marketing front for REIT stock millionaires capitalizing on the destruction of environment, community, civil liberties, and freedom in America. Based on this comment, I must point out that you are your own worst enemy. Stop supporting high density housing if you want to turn a fourplex. That's not high density. Fourplexes have yards dude. Have you been to the city?