[nonameiguess]

Says they needed to provide a photo from 1938 to attempt to get grandfathered in from when the law was passed, so it's quite a bit older law than whenever tents, public crapping, and drug use became widespread problems. This seems to have been passed before it was common for people to even have cars.

This sounds like something that needs to just be repealed, but nobody bothered before because nobody even knew about it until some dickhead neighbor decided to comb through all the city codes to find something they could pin on a person they don't like.

[tadfisher]

Tents, public defecation and drug use were just as much of a problem in the 30s. They called tent cities "Hoovervilles" at the time [0].

The prevalence of poverty in the 1930s was the impetus for "aesthetics" laws like these. Like today, homeowners wanted to preserve property values and living standards in their immediate surroundings.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hooverville