lol, maybe, but still, I'll believe you if that is the driving force behind those laws. It's a variation of .
Still, why are there laws for this? Afaik, you can do whatever the hell you like in your own house or yard here as long as it doesn't physically disturb your neighbours (ie can't smell bad or be noisy or leak into the ground) or doesn't break any vice laws.
I would assume that most people are decent enough not to put up a car on bricks in their front yard.
Too lazy to paint their fences and maintain their garden perhaps, but not turning it into a giant trash heap. But maybe it's the different in the US with the houses being relatively cheap and big. In Belgium, most poor people can't afford a house with some kind of garden or yard.
Next thing you know you're living in a gated community...which would be pretty awesome because you could watch the lowlives outside from over your wall. But I digress.