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The original article and all my assumtions are based on a rural environment. The conflict here is people with urban middle-class sensibilities moving to the country and then legislating away the things they don't like about their neighbors. If they wish to buy up properties and then put deed restrictions in place that is fine, but zoning away their neighbors way-of-life is not.
As you may have guessed, this is a hot-button issue for me. I've gone round and round with tw on this because he doesn't believe people should be able to build the houses they need rather than the supposedly safe (and often shoddily built) assembly line house. If I lived in a township with heavy zoning enforcement, I wouldn't have been able to build on my schedule and eliminate the need for a morgage.
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I understand *nods*. I think 'country' means different things to you guys than it does over here. We have this thing called 'Green Zone" which is necessary in planning regs because we've lost much (most?) of our wild lands. We have an entirely different relationship with space than yours I think *grins* just a whole other scale.