Should Rain Gutters Be Mandatory?

I'll fight for a committee to take a hard look at the ordinances and keep the good ones, modify the ones needing modifying and eliminate the bad ones. Here's one to eliminate.

24-7-105.
MAINTENANCE OF STRUCTURES.
It shall be unlawful for any person owning or occupying real property within West Valley
City, to fail to:
(1) ....
(2) Maintain each exterior window of a building with an intact and unbroken window
pane with an appropriate screen that shall remain in place at all times.
(3) ...
(4) Provide and maintain weatherproofing on all exterior surfaces that protect the
building such as paint, masonry, siding, stucco, roof coverings, rain gutters, garage doors,
and carports as required by the International Property Maintenance Code, the Uniform
Housing Code, and the Uniform Code for Abatement of Dangerous Buildings.

My wife and I put in rain gutters, not because of ordinance, but because we wanted them. It cost us $1,000. What could you do with $1,000 of your own money? Is it the place of government to tell us how to spend our money? We have ordinances that state it's unlawful for something to be "unsightly." Who's to judge unsightly?

I'll fight to eliminate ordinances such as this!