Best of luck to that homeowner, now he has opened up a bag of worms.
If the owner has children the DCPS will be at his door, then city inspectors to check his wiring and plumbing to insure it meets today's codes. If he owns a business that also will be checked out for code violations ----The IRS will be tipped of, perhaps even a tip to the vice Squad and a midnight visit from a Swat team looking for drugs or kiddie porn.
This family had best be squeaky clean, someone is bound to find something to harass them with, even a loose gutter can be a violation of safety codes.
The city can amass so many violations, real and imaginary, on the property that it can and will be condemned until the violations are fixed and approved by the city, may take months for the city to reinspect and mean time the family cannot live there.
It takes allot of money to fight the system, and GUTS to keep our freedoms and say screw the neighbors, if I want to paint my house with pink polka dots, I will do so. This is the Yankee French in me.
We have had controversy in my area of HOA taking people to court for flying the American flag, even putting up Xmas Lights, and forcing owners to remove Christian Saint 2 foot tall statues in their gardens. Buddha's are OK but out goes Mother Mary and St. Christopher.
Is this not the only country in the world to go by the MOTTO---Live And Let Live------MY State Motto is ---Live Free or Die--