Fatboy:
We don't have C.O.s here for single family homes, we only have final inspections, it was the building department withholding the final because the final building did not conform to the approved plans, the stucco color requirements were imposed by the Design Review Commission and issuance of the final by the building department is the only way they have of enforcing it.
In the case above where I couldn't live with myself telling people what color to paint their houses I quit, but I had mixed emotions because if someone painted their house florescent pink it would negatively affect neighbors, but the libertarian side of me won and I thought that in a free country people should have ther right to paint their hosues any coloir they want and if neighbors don't like it they can move, but I still wrestle with that conflict.
I knew a really good inspector who quit because he couldn't enforce the Green Code, were I an inpsector I couldn't enforce the Green Code, Energy Code, or ADA and would quit rather than take people's rights away from them.