The problem with civil government acting as a service or product provider or regulator is that when government has an interest in the marketplace, it corrupts its objectivity regarding justice–its only real function. We thus need some imagination toward infrastructure provision such as public corporations or special districts (which have long served), but not financed by property tax. Benjamin Franklin created subscription library, street cleaning, and street lighting service, made them successful, and then got the Philadelphia City government to take them over. We went wrong early.
Most people don’t know how tyrannical and arbitrary local governments have become over land-use. Rather than regulation–which assumes you are a criminal before any action–America once ran extremely well on a robust, tiered justice system, as Deuteronomy One, from the neighborhood to the nation. D’ Tocqueville noted it as one of the main differences between Europe and the US.