The communists succeeded in planting one of their mind viruses. The organizations against "urban sprawl" are communist front groups. Urban sprawl is a leftist derogatory term for low-density housing that requires automobile ownership. Leftism is driven by envy, mostly size envy. The two biggest possessions of middle-class America is the house and the car, so these objects receive the majority of leftist hate.
As population density increases, so must laws curtailing freedom. Living closer together free actions, such as playing music loudly, impacts more people negatively. To get along in high density people must be heavily constricted in what they can do without government permission. While humans are social creatures, those of us alive today are all descendants of the warriors that survived a bloody battlefield. When humans are caged in too high a density they get aggressive and violent.
Leftist envy and the resulting hatred for fellow mankind develops from growing up in a high density environment. Rather than find a cure for their hate they want to impose the very same conditions on everyone so everyone hates mankind as much as them.
More likely you will be subjected to hate speech laws if you complain about loud music. One thing about my part of the country is I can have absolute silence if it is around wintertime and the river is high enough to flow silently over the rapids. I have had visitors from the city freak out at complete silence because they have never experienced it before.