[sauropod]

Why shouldn't people be allowed to build what they want?

[pepsi_junkie]

Why shouldn't people be allowed to build what they want?

I believe they should. However I recall a situation when I was a kid that drove neighbors crazy. I lived in an old neighborhood, it was a commuter neighborhood from the turn of the century where wealthy Philadelphia busnessmen lived and commuted into the city. So it was full of old large homes. Then one burned down and a new owner bought the land and build an ultra-modern house that looked like a pyramid. It was a nice home I guess (I thought it was ugly but that's a matter of taste) but it looked totally out of place in the neighborhood it was in. I always wondered why if they liked modern architecture so much, they chose to live in (and change) such a traditional neighborhood.

[SALChamps03]

Why shouldn't people be allowed to build what they want? It's typical leftist class warfare. "I can't afford a house that big, so you shouldn't be able to have one either." Under what possible form of logic can anyone claim that a big house impacts a neighborhood in a negative way? Even if it did, the property owner may do whatever he or she chooses to do with his or her property. Good point you made.

[lewislynn]

Why shouldn't people be allowed to build what they want?

Ask the people building/living in the McMansions...They likely won't have the same sentiments.