[nsxwolf]

It's not clear to me what they get out of owning the street (or is it just sidewalks?), and what the homeowners lose by not owning it.

[harryh]

Previously only owners of the surrounding houses could use the street. The new owners could have opened the street up for public use harming the privacy of the house owners. The plan of the new owners, if they had won, was to sell the street back to the house owners at a markup so that they could get their privacy back.

[sidlls]

They could charge for parking, for example.