Whether they anticipate it or not doesn't change the "sacrifice someone else's peaceful enjoyment of the home" aspect you brought up.  Again, we'd all love the field across the street to remain empty and undeveloped.  But unless you want to buy that field, then your "peaceful enjoyment" is subject to some impact when it's developed... whether it be a new housing subdivision going in, a shopping center, an oil well, a school, or just about anything else.  

And of those I listed, I'll take the oil well as being the least annoying and least impactful.  In fact, I have.  I chose to live in Weld county, where there's wells going in all around our subdivision, and many existing ones already here.  They generate almost no traffic compared to those other things.  And far less noise. The field remains 90% open space. We don't smell a singe odor from it, and our water is just fine.