From a distance, this city’s fight over hydraulic fracturing looks like the same ideological debate that has divided Americans for the last five years: Is fracking a force for good or evil? The Upshot is a business column by WSJ bureau chiefs. Leslie Eaton is the Journal’s global energy editor. But on the ground in Denton, where voters will decide Tuesday whether to ban fracking, the battle sounds quite different—and possibly more troublesome for the energy industry as it keeps moving closer to where people live. In Denton, a fast-growing city of about 123,000 people that sits on top of the Barnett Shale, the battle isn’t over global warming and energy independence. Instead, voters are wrestling with the very practical inconveniences of having natural-gas drilling sites nearby: noise, fumes, truck traffic, accidents, health concerns and anxiety over property values. Both sides say the vote could be close.