I understand the deed restrictions and comply with them. There was a house in a neighborhood where my friend lived and the owner made up holidays and designed the decorations used to commemorate that "holiday". It was pretty bad, looked trashy rather than decorative and tasteful, however there were no codes that prohibited it.
My problem with the system used here is the anonymous reporting. This is a system used by every repressive government that has existed. People are urged and sometimes rewarded for reporting neighbors that have said something against the leader or the government and in many cases were not true, just a vindictive person getting even with someone they didn't like. This system builds distrust, suspicion and a general feeling of insecurity. It destroys the concept of neighborhood.
The credibility of the community standards office is lost when the standards inspector comes to the reported home to confirm the complaint but ignores similar violations on other homes and does nothing about them. There are security patrols that go through all the villages, why not require them to note violations and provide that to the standards office? I am more comfortable with that system than the anonymous reporting of violation that are very possibly vindictive in nature.
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