Great story! That restriction would absolutely impact 80% of Vermonters. In fact, conversely, my neighbors prejudged me on the basis of my Prius with NJ license plates, so I'm lucky I was able to drive over the state line!
I've told this story before but when I lived in NJ, one of the neighbors in a nearby community lined his driveway with bowling balls. The neighbors complained all the time, but they had no legal right to make him remove them. So they got one of the neighbors to offer to buy a couple of the bowling balls, and once he accepted their offer, they were able to make him remove his "commercial inventory." So he complied.... and then lined his driveway with vintage rocking horses.
(Ages ago, when I first told this story, I found out that that person is one of this forum's cousins--amazing "small world" story. I don't believe the member is currently active, but if so, I hope they don't mind my retelling it. It's definitely a tale of local yore)