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You own your land not the conditions that surround that land.

• TomVDB 8y ago
  That is true, and nobody claimed otherwise. But I can have the desire for the conditions to stay the same.
  • dublinben 8y ago
    We have a way for you to express that desire. You can buy the surrounding properties and keep them exactly the same. See Zuckerberg's purchases in Palo Alto for example.
    • TomVDB 8y ago
      That'd be a great example if it weren't for the fact that Zuck didn't keep things the same at all: he wants to raze the surrounding houses.
    • qihqi 8y ago
      Or you can vote municipalities that best aligns with what you desire.
• BurningFrog 8y ago
  The problem with the SF and the Bay Area is that home owners actually have fairly strong ownership rights to the land surrounding their home. At least in the sense of being able to stop anything being constructed there. You can think of it as an interesting experiment in collective land ownership. I'm using "own" meaning "control" here.