How can the federal government impact you more, when anything from building permits, roads, garbage collection impact your daily life regularly? The last mayor

How can the federal government impact you more, when anything from building permits, roads, garbage collection impact your daily life regularly? The last mayor of my city decided to make the entirety of the fields in front of my house (in Italy, countryside near Rome) buildable and completely ruined the view from my house and filled it with traffic.