Interesting story, many years ago, about a guy in UK who was ordered to paint his somewhat run down house property.
He did. Painting various parts of the house, including the entire in roof, in vivid in different colours, in stripes, polka dots etc. He complied with the municipality's order but not quite with the result they intended.
Also here one resident successfully appealed an order about her garden; turned out that it really was 'A natural garden' not just an unkempt one, featuring local and natural plants and bushes.
Not, the unnatural array of Kentucky Blue Grass (Which doesn't grow well here; is prone to Cinch bug and doesn't survive icy winters as well as other plants) along with trees and bushes from the big box stores, some of which are very unsuited to our cool and next to the North Atlantic climate.
We have grown some 67 trees, some of which, despite the thin soil are now 35 to 40 feet high, sticking mainly with trees we know are acclimatised. Our carbon footprint having added all those trees is, we feel, in the black?
Oh, btw next weekend (depending on the weather!) we are going to put new brakes on both the Nissans, in our 60 foot long driveway. Most likely one of the neighbours, seeing us at it, will drop over and lend a hand.