If the problem is overcrowding the Capitalist solution would be to open more stores. As for the rules of a kehilla,Yitzchokim, they were made by the community council (shiva tuvei ha’ir) who were elected by the taxpayers as they dealt with expenditures(the Maharil has a teshuva on who has the right to vote but I could not find exactly where). If someone did not like a law (generally a tax law) he could appeal to the bet din or the gadol hador (the Rashba has several tax teshuvot). The rav’s job was to pasken shailot.In Hungary he was also the ex officio rosh yeshiva (which was a communal institution) although in Lithuania there was generally a division between the yeshiva and the kehilla.
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