Yep because he had to get the white approved and then paint the approved white over the outlaw white
That's total bullshit. Here's what I did in a similar situation.
Back when Debby's group was in power I used to burn wood in my fireplace. (My wife has since prohibited this unless it is an emergency and it's our only source of heat.) In order to season wood in this climate you have to keep it under cover. Otherwise it will just rot. And you don't want to store it inside the attached garage because all firewood here is infested with insects that you don't want in your house. So I designed a nice open-air woodshed. Four posts in a 3' x 10' configuration, 12:12 cedar roof on the front side and a flatter metal roof on the side facing the woods. I showed the design to my next door neighbor for his approval and he complimented me on it.
I then hand delivered the design with the appropriate paperwork to the HOA president, three doors down. The guy is a lawyer. I made him sign and date it.
Our rules require that he respond within 30 days. The bastard waited until day 29 to mail a rejection notice to me. It claimed that the shed was a "fuel tank" and therefore had to be screened.
On the Saturday after the 30 days was up I built the shed. It's on the rear corner of my property and you have to stop at the top of my driveway to even see it.
Lawyer then called me. He was on speaker phone and I just knew that Debby was in the office with him. (I sensed it then and things she said later proved it.) Debby hated me because I destroyed her dream of all uniform mailboxes, or something, and as therefore riding the President to beat me up on something, anything. I told him that I never received anything from him, and since 30 days had come and gone...
He was pissed. But he couldn't do a damn thing about it.