Government really is where community goes to die huh? The only reason this asshole even has the chance of getting what he wants is that once he buys his approval he will have state backing to protect it. Without violence-as-a-service he's just one guy pitted against a town that hates him that would seemingly happily send him packing. The fact that the people of the town have any means whatsoever to stop him is a feat unto itself.
It truly is amazing how government enables this kind of assholery at an institutional level under the guise of property rights. I can't even imagine trying to join a community with my first move being to piss them all off by building an eyesore right in front of the nature conservation the town just paid for out of their own pockets.