TL;DR - Some of the snobbery in this thread is ridiculous, especially with the BS assumptions being made.
I know OP because I saw his post on social media. OP isn't doing anything out of the ordinary to get dinged. He would be at least an average neighbor on any of your streets. IMO he self implicated by stating he does work for his uncle and got a ticket.
There's also someone in OP's area in the Hamptons that likes wandering around and calling bylaw officers on random homes every few weeks. I have other friends who live by OP who have gotten visits from bylaw officers to confirm there essentially is no wrong doing to report back to whoever is making calls in the event the person calls bylaw back wanting to know if they followed up. I have other friends a few streets from OP whose families have been getting visits from bylaw officers about different calls every few years going back at least 10-15 years.
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IIRC, OP's family has several vehicles and though he only mentions the ones he has rebuilt, the others in those 6 vehicles are newer premium European vehicles IIRC. You'd probably drive by wondering why certain vehicles were on the driveway/street on a regular basis rather than in a garage, over thinking OP was a true nuisance on the street. Someone randomly driving by wouldn't even know which home this is as OP has already mentioned.
That pic with the oil stained driveway and road is not OP. However, it is on the same street and area of a friend of mine and I have driven by it. So likely bylaw officers have been called to this home as well.
I have several friends close to where OP lives. There's someone in the area who is a jerk who likes to take walks and calls bylaw on families up to 4-5 streets away for things like wondering if the home has renters; claiming gardens are attracting pests because vegetables encased in rabbit wire is pissing them off in regards to more hares in the area and complaints about vehicles on the street parked in front of their place when it's just family or friends who visited and parked for an hour or two.
This isn't even including anecdotes of someone walking around who is somewhat confrontational. I met a guy like that in that area once when I was in university. He casually asked if I lived on the street as he was walking by with his dog. I replied I was visiting a friend to which his tone suddenly changed and he said, "If you don't live in this area, stay the hell out of it and don't bother the hardworking people who live here."
Whoever this is has been doing this for a while (at least a decade or more) and my friend discovered this person or persons has called bylaw officers against dozens of homes in the area over a very long span. This has been a thing since I was in high school and OP, you're only a few years separated from me. I don't know if it's the same guy or not, but that area OP lives in does really snobby and vocal person/people.
In most instances, bylaw officers chat with the families, note nothing is up and leave. Sometimes the officers show up apologetically and say they just have to investigate a call they received. IMO OP, you self implicated by mentioning your uncle and thus got a ticket. I don't think whoever showed up for bylaw meant to be a dick.
In the Hamptons, there are plenty of families with multiple vehicles. Not to point purely at race, but there's definitely lots of brown and oriental families with multiple generations at home.
On my parent's block in the Hampstead area of Hamptons, there's a family with a taxi, and about 4 other personal vehicles. With they way they park, you wouldn't even know they owned that many vehicles. I know the kid (who drives a vehicle that's at least 10-15 years old) does a bit of minor work on the vehicles. I've seen vehicles I've never seen before show up on random weekends and get their tires swapped. I have never once in my life thought it was necessary to call bylaw on them and I believe my entire street is the same because it's just a regular thing we see often (they are quite considerate when they do this though).
There is also someone who does music lessons not far from them because I see kids show up to get lessons on a regular basis, plus they leave windows open and I can hear music lessons on many regular days.
No one has ever called bylaw officers on anyone. But I guess on this street, we often approach each other to randomly chat, so it's a bit unique and a little more community oriented than other areas.
This situation isn't a community wide issue nor a Calgary wide issue. This situation is that OP is unlucky to live by someone who is a seriously crappy neighbor and has been well known by some families in the Hamptons for calling bylaw officers on random people for various reasons over at least the last two decades (But no one knows who it is). OP, consider yourself lucky it's taken this long for whoever that person is to get bylaw officers to come investigate. If anything, you staying off the radar of this person so long is evidence to yourself that you likely aren't doing anything excessive if it's taken that person so long to call bylaw on you.
Go do work on your uncle's vehicle at his place for a bit and stay out of the cross hairs for a bit. After a few possible subsequent visits, whoever called in the first place will find someone else to badger. That's what happened to some of my other friends in the area.