You know what else? We got a notice from the city a few months ago about trash cans not stored in the correct place, a motorcycle blocking the sidewalk, and some dead grass. Guess what, almost all other neighbors have their trash cans out in plain view, but we get the fine. The motorcycle was in the sidewalk, but we are the LAST house and no one walks there. So it got moved over 5 ft where it's not on the side walk anymore LOL. The dead grass ok fine, but we're not the only ones for that also.
Then a few years ago, we got another notice saying we can't park our cars on the lawn (we only do that on street sweeping day). So MIL had the lawn taken out in the front and had concrete put in so we could park our cars NOT on the lawn for one day per week. After spending all the money to do that, we get another notice that we can't have that much concrete in the front, it has to be at least 50% grass. Again, many neighbors have more than 50% concrete, one even has NO grass. We still had grass on the side. So MIL had to pay even more money to have the brand new concrete taken out and put the grass back in.
And get this, we don't live in a gated community or pay HOA, so why do we have to follow such rules when it seems like no one else has to?