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ELI5: why do certain US towns and cities ban outright drying out clothes on the open yard on line ? Why ban on doing something on a personal property ?
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To keep poor people out.

The idea is that hanging clothes on a clothes line is what poor people do because they can't afford an electric or gas-fired clothes dryer. Even though someone who bought a home presumably has the money for a clothes dryer and simply want to use a clothes line by choice rather than by necessity, many towns and homeowners associations ban clothes lines because of the connotations that only poor people use clothes lines. Their fear is that if people used clothes lines it would present a poor 'aesthetic': it would make the neighbourhood(s) *seem* poor by association, thus lowering everyone's property values.