He used a badly worded ordinance that was supposed to stop people from parking junk cars in their yards.
People have been parking their camping vehicles in their yards around here for decades with no problem. BUT the town is out of money being lots of people are out of work (no income taxes) and property values falling (lower property tax revenue) and business closing up right and left (no sales tax and business tax money).
So the obvious answer is to make lawful activity unlawful so as to generate revenue.
When someone put a cement block through the idjit's windshield with a note attached telling him to stop with the fines now or suffer the consequences, suddenly the city realized the ordinance didn't say what they thought it did and the Service Director got fired.
Governments still behaving as tumors that need to be subsidized by the host populace/commerce, eh? Everything is “money, money, more money” to them. That is called extortion. They would get their pound of flesh if they would stop raising the cost of providing it to them.