Green is a color you can find in the landscape, but it doesn't comply with the usual brown stucco regime. The city has been involved in a dispute that has gone on for years with a couple of home owners who stuccoed their house a forest green color. rose simpson thinks this whole debate over earth tones misses the entire point. She says lenk santafey has gone to keep the whole city looking like a particular kind of mud construction even when it's not.