Sounds a lot like the "not in my backyard" mentality. I live in the mountains of western North Carolina where flat open areas are almost non existant. My club field is in the next county from me. Where I live (Asheville area), seems to attract more than the usual share of these "not in my backyard" idiot's. I don't care what you would like to build or do around here, before you know it, there's a group of people forming to oppose it!! From building affordable housing projects to new businesses and industry (Walmart was a great example) to a much needed electric company substation. There is a club based in Asheville who flys at the old landfill, but they have a lot of restrictions as to when and what you can fly. No glow engines on Sunday at all and that just doesn't work for me. I did find an old Superfund site that had promise for aeromodeling close to me but I just found out yesterday that the property owners said NO to the idea. While it's hard to find places to fly, we can still do it and I hope we can continue in our sport well into the future. I guess I'd move out to the middle of nowhere if I had to just to be able to fly RC
Afterthought: The best one I remember was a group of people who moved into a subdivision built near an existing full scale airport and then had the balls to form a group opposed to all the "Noise".