With a quick search, the Author of the article lives in Pottstown PA and it looks like his front yard view is a parkinglot.
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=222+Chestnut+St,+Pottstown,+PA
I don't want to be hemmed in like that - on any subject.
My house is the result of 'sprawl' in the 40's.
I suppose they will tax that too...
I have lived in this house for such a long time just surrounded by fields as far as the eye can see. It would kill me to live house to house like that again. I could not stand all the kids and the traffic noise and the barking dogs now.
It's so peaceful and quiet where I live, that the noise from a busy city would drive me right up the wall today.