If every house around you is turned into a high-rise then your property values are going to shoot up massively.  So, cash out and move.  The real question is why can 1x people living in an area decide that 99x people get to move there or not.<p>In the end Mixed use walkable communities are much better for both peoples health and the environment.  You can always move to the middle of Montana if you don&#x27;t want to live near development, but carving out the hart of city&#x27;s and saying &quot;FU I have got mine&quot; causes worlds of problems.