Both with issues like development planning, and also a lot of social issues, a lot of people on FR want complete and utter freedom for themselves, but want what everyone else does completely controlled.
Government planning and zoning is typically routinely attacked, right up until somebody has something they don't like built next to their house.
The logical difficulties the ultra-free-enterprise Freepers do not address begin with these:
First, no investor is entitled to have legislation, and the American taxpayer, protect his investment. Yet this is what landowners often do. Owning land with the expectation that it can be developed constitutes making an investment. And when landowners demand that government change rural zoning to accommodate their desire to make a profit, they are asking the people to guarantee that their investment in land was a profitable one.
Second, as this article spells out, when landowners make this profit everyone else suffers for it. Property taxes skyrocket to pay for the new roads, schools, police and fire protection, water, garbage removal and disposal, etc. etc. etc. Children can't get educated in the local schools anymore. Crime, noise, pollution, and crowding increase. People can't even be with their families because they're spending half their lives trapped in traffic. Don't tell me that developers have the right to impose this misery on everybody else.
Of coursse we are told that if we don't like the current situation we are free to move. This is true. But the only places that don't have problems like this soon would if we all left and moved there! Besides, we would all be spending six hours every day in our cars, commuting from rural areas and creating even more traffic nightmares.
Thank God some places like Rappahannock County have learned from the mistakes of Loudoun and don't permit much in the way of development. I've heard that Rappahannock doesn't even have a McDonald's in it. Wish I could figure out a way to earn a living there.