Zoning laws in some instances can be abused. But they are not evil.
It is zoning laws that keep a chicken farm from being inserted into a residential neighborhood. It is a zoning law that keeps the property next door from becoming a commercial trash dump. It is a zoning law that requires a buffer zone between a chemical producing plant and the nearby elementary school.
If this man wants to live with no zoning, he only has to move over a couple of counties, and there is a place where people live in one trailer and have two more out back for parts..... And another one for a storage shed..... And another one to house their 13 dogs..... And another one for when their Southern Kentucky inlaws come to visit.
Zoning laws are not needed. They are but another way that government meddles in our affairs. Houston, TX the third largest city in the US has no zoning laws. Yet its development is not unlike that of any other urban city. To prevent unwanted development restrictive titles are used. This in affect has put the power back into the hands of landowners and has freed the city from having an expensive zoning department. Philadelphia is comparable in size to Houston. While Houston spends $0 on zoning Philadelphia spends $1.3 million a year just on the zoning department and another $1.2 billion a year on lawsuits.