IF YOU WANT TO PAINT YOUR HOUSE THE COLOR OF YOUR CHOICE, BE CAREFUL WHERE YOU BUY YOUR HOUSE

There’s an interesting comment at the end of the discussion that I linked in a post last week.  As I suspected, there was apparently some bureaucratic skullduggery in applying historic property rules to the house that was the subject of the discussion, with the outcome that the owner’s neighbors (or more accurately, a small subset of his neighbors) got to tell him what color he could not paint his house.  
All the more reason to vote with your feet and stay away from properties that are subject to rules enforced by people who like to tell others what to do.