Save the Junk

Austin's Cathedral of Junk is in trouble: following a citizen complaint, city officials asked ol' Vince to either bring it up to code (not sure how a three-story backyard building/sculpture made of trash could possibly fit into said code, but anyway) or remove it. I've found articles from the Chronicle and PBS, the latter with an intriguing comments thread. A movement immediately sprung up to help: Save the Junk, which organized a massive clean-up (?) event in advance of Vince's deadline. Now he's apparently been given until the 26th to meet further requirements. The Cathedral is emblematic of a lot of things I love about Austin--the proverbial "weirdness"; the unassuming affect of its creator, who just seems surprised that anyone is interested in his bizarre hobby; and the whole grass-roots word-of-mouth quality of the whole thing, the principle of someone creating something unique for their own amusement and then letting it grow. That said, the arguments against it are not incomprehensible. I suppose.