On the other side of the coin, I'm in an area with NO zoning restrictions at all (other than a homophobic county-wide prohibition on pornographic bookstores). The town planning board has no power to disallow any type of building or business as long as it passes a very basic environmental survey. There's been a lot of bad feeling lately about a proposed motocross track/RV park in what is a very quiet farming community. I pity the neighbors who will have to suffer it, but there's hardly anything that can be done to stop it. I guess that's the price a community pays for constantly voting against zoning ordinances.