The War Of The Clotheslines

This is so silly, I have a hard time believing it is true.
It seems that there are communities in Canada and USA where it is against the law to use outdoor clotheslines to dry your laundry.
A developer of one of the communities explains that it would destroy the aesthetics of the area were people allowed to string lines in their back yards and, as a 28 year old female of the neighborhood said, who wants to look at your neighbor's laundry.
Well, excuse me Mr. Developer and Ms. Silly-28-year-old neighbor, but this is now, with real problems with regards to energy, and dryers, however convenient, use an enormous amount of energy.
So why not use the free and energy friendly clothesline ?
Are there things to be ashamed of ?
Will it, as one female suggested, turn other females into " laundry maids ", as if doing laundry inside, shifting the load from the washer to the dryer is OK, but if one were to transfer the laundry load to the outside and hang it on lines, then suddenly the female is like an indentured
servant.
Why?
Anyway, where I grew up, there was a communal drying area where all the housewives could hang their laundry to dry after the wash and where, to be honest, the other housewives would give the laundry a look-over and decide what kind of a house keeper this woman was.
My mother was upset about an otherwise good neighbor, whose laundry was looking a bit dingy, according to my mother.
Would that be what the "28 year old neighbor" might fear? A judgment on her laundry skills.?
I say, lets string lines all over the place and show the world that we have nothing to fear but slovenliness and bad detergents.
And lack of bleach.