One example of regulating zoning is limiting the number of fast-food restaurants that can be built near a residential area. making sure trash pickup, street cleaning, and snow-plowing services are in place. raising revenue for a new city hall to replace an existing structure that is in disrepair.

For the main reason that zoning would most likely exert the control of an authority in a given land or structure, the first choice which is " limiting the number of fast-food restaurants that can be built near a residential area." would be the most viable answer among the provided choices in the question.