That didn't work in my case. The DH next door decided I was running a business and put out a blind petition against businesses in the neighborhood and then filled in the name he was going to complain about AFTER he got all the signatures he needed....and of course that was my name. One neighbor came and apologized saying he had no idea what it was all about but signed it anyways without thinking. The city hammered me until I finally threatened the assistant city attorney with a harassment lawsuit against the city and the ahole neighbor. He tried to tell me that the city could construe what I was doing as a business because I was working on cars.
I invited him several times to come to my home and see what was going on here and he finally showed up. The next time he just showed up unannounced and that's when I jumped on his sorry ***. Dude, the cars are mine and I can show you the titles to all of them but he didn't care. By then, ahole the neighbor had called the cops on me for various stuff like suspicious vehicles and noise. If my shop lights were on 1 minute after 9pm and he so much as heard a car door shut, he'd call the cops. Thing is, this city has no time limits on noise. If there's noise that's bothering you, you can call at 2pm and they will show up to check it out. Anyways, my neighbor called the call to the tune of 40+ times in 9 years. Yup, I put up with this ahole for far too long. I mentioned all of this to the *** city attorney and also mentioned that I had been talking to a lawyer about the situation and how sick of all the crap my neighbor and the city was trying to do to me. Can't stop doing something that isn't happening. It wasn't long after that the ahole next door quit calling the cops and the city left me alone. I think the police dept told him to back off since 99% of the time, his complaints were unfounded.
The county assesses property values and doesn't really care about what's next door or across the street or even down the road a bit. All they care about is getting their money but if you think the assessment is too high, you can take pictures and go protest it. If the county agent thinks you have a valid complaint, they will cut it back a bit. It's never very much but it might save you 100 bucks over the year. It's almost not worth it to go across town and use up an entire day waiting for your number to be called so you can go talk to some county agent with glazed donut crumbs on their face....