Sacramento County ban on home “major auto repair”

I quit reading at page 3 and haven't read the ordinance at issue because why? I don't live in Cali.

That said, I am house-hunting and I can tell you that, going into a neighborhood to view a potential candidate, if there are wrecked cars out in view up and down the street, I'm canceling my showing. In fact, it is much easier than that with the advent of google earth or any other satellite imaging site.

If enough people do like I do, then that house sits, unsold, for much longer until the owners end up lowering the price to move it. This is one way how property values are affected by the issue at hand. If they lower the price enough, it will likely become occupied by even more "hobbyists and hoarders" as there is, most definitely, a socio-economic class thereby associated.

My neighborhood, for the record, is all 500-800K homes. (Forgive me for not apologizing for this.) My '69 has made me, pretty much, the "redneck" in this community of, primarily, over-60s. Due to working on one big project (inside my garage) I had to park the fish outside for a spell during which time it came under fire by the HOA. I explained that my garage was temporarily unusable and offered to cover the car with a tan-colored (we are out in the desert southwest) cover. This solution was accepted and, for 70 dollars, everyone was happy. Of course I did not pile loose parts up all over and did not allow weeds to grow all around it. Keeping that in check was my responsibility and I did this out of respect for my neighbors. They didn't get pissy, I didn't get pissy. No calls were ever made to any authorities. We worked it out and when my "other" project was done, the fish got rolled back inside.

It can be done.