We trust our neighbors. They aren't going to sell their land. Everyone around here wants to stay here and keep the neighborhood like it is. This statement was made in the spring of 1962 in a community 8 miles from a city of 100,000 people and almost on the shoreline of a man-made lake. Four years later several large subdivisions were crowding the edge of the same community.
Land goes up in price and resistance to selling goes down.
One characteristic of most American communities, rural and urban, is the mobile population. Mobility increases with proximity to a growing town. This is probably the most frequently heard objection to rural zoning as might be expected. Many Americans feel this way and there is no easy answer, but we must respect their feelings. A neighbor decides to sell part of his farm for a drag racing strip.