[muawiyah]

Adherence to what seem to be very minimal standards is probably the route to financial security for the people of the town.

The bright blue window frame may well endanger the fragile local economic base and put hundreds of people on welfare which will be paid out of YOUR POCKET.

[LexBaird]

If the only thing between financial security and plummeting into welfare dependency for an entire town is the color of a windowframe, then they've got far more problems than a historical purity commissar can fix.

The problem with "very minimal standards" of mandatory arbitrariness is that they inevitably and rapidly bloom into "maximal". Towns that legislate conformity to some arcane code of quaintness end up being plastic parodies of it instead. When they start specifying a governmentally approved color scheme, they may as well put up a shopping mall and call it the "Ye Olde Quaint Village Center".