Some budget racing classes have a price limit on what's supposed to be spent. To enforce that there's a claim rule that mandates the sale of the winning vehicle at that price. I wonder if it might be a good idea to be applied to property taxes ? If you think the town has assessed your property at too high a value, then you get to force the town to buy it at the assessed value in, i dunno, 30 days after you make your claim. Of course if the town is being fair, there'll have no problem buying and reselling the property, perhaps even making a profit. The threat might rein in the more outrageous claims of how much a view is worth. Because in the end, that's what the problem is. People might complain about the amount of taxes they pay but if they could sell the house for what the assessor says it's worth, then they'd have to agree the valuation (including whatever the view contributes) is fair.
ps - Don't consider cell phone towers to be eyesores, think of them as reducing your view tax !