If you're breaking a city code they do.
OK, so my all-white neighborhood gets to veto me selling my house to a black family? I didn't think so.
In South Florida selling to a black family has no effect on property values.
This is the same slippery slope that the current wave of Emminent Domain abuses is on: Private property rights are trampled "for the good of the community". After all, the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few or the one, right?
In some cases that's true.
Welcome to the USSR, comrade.
There's a difference. There are still places in America where you can paint your house purple and green, and breed rats in your yard. In fact that's where I hope you live and where you will stay. Code enforcement does keep up property values. There was no such thing as property values in the USSR.
My my.... that wasn't very nice.
I'd never paint my house purple and/or green, nor would I breed rats, etc.
When I bought property, the covenants contained w/i the deed were that I could not put a mobile home on the property if it could be seen from the road, nor could I use my property as a junkyard. I agreed to these terms when I purchased the property. All well and good.
When I built my house, if the city had an ordinance about color, that would be fine. To come back later, after my house was painted, and the city passed an ordinance specifically to make me repaint my house - that's a horse of an entirely different hue.
YOU want to use the police power of the Government to enforce your wishes. You're right, thats not communism - it's totalitarianism. Don't like my previously legal color choice, buy me out or move.
But you'd better not do that in the Drazi Freehold.
"I'm sorry sir, but to live here, you have to dress better, property values ya know." Sorry folks, completely cover that RV or else; property values ya know." "Keep your uniform curtains dress right dress, and clean; property values ya know."
You make a compelling argument against logging, smoke stacks, and any other economic activity that effects the community at large. Property is communal to the extent others can keep you from doing anything to it that visually or environmentally effects them, right?
Say, you aren't an Earth First! member by any chance, are you? ;-)