Sacramento County ban on home “major auto repair”

More power to ya, if you can insure 8 cars, pay registration on them, and drive them.
Then you a lucky man, no issues with that, what so ever.
You must have a large driveway, if you can have something like that in your neighborhood.
How close are houses from one another, in your part of the world?
But in your case too, your code enforcement, might be keeping a eye out for you.
So keep it legal, and under their radar, would seem to be appropriate.

thanks brother...we don't have to have insurance unless we are driving the cars on public roads. we do have to have registration. antique plates rarely driven are $28.00 per car for 5 years each. (so I have under $300.00 in all 8 cars).The code enforcement officer can watch all he wants...just because an ordinance is passed does not mean it can be enforced. Ordinances are general guidelines passed by a minority... not a referendum of popular vote (which is what a democracy is based on)