That's where you're wrong...she moved into THAT neighborhood..with those rules...if she doesn't like it, it's up to her to move.
She did not move into that neighborhood. She BOUGHT / OWNS property! - That is the fundamental right you are missing.
Property rights are what founded this Nation. Not "neighborhood" rights....or "the common good". It was individual rights and property rights.
Those "rules" did NOT exist when I paid for my own home twenty five years ago.
Else I would NOT have moved there.
Mahwah used to be quite quaint before the McMansions and thousands of condos.
My property is quite large and for three seasons can hardly even be seen from the street. I love nature and try to keep things that way. There is a variety of wildlife on my property- there used to be a badger that lived there. I was amazed by that because I didn't even know this was part of their habitat.
I don't like lawns except on golf courses- they strike me as extraordinarily sterile and devoid of warmth or imagination. I do not presume however, that I should impose my own love of nature on other people who pay their own mortgages and their own taxes.
Actually, it sounds like THAT neighborhood sort of grew around her.