If I tried to turn my backyard into a business that brings in a lot of traffic and is out of code with the legally established use of the residential property people my neighbors would likely justify vetoing turning the neighborhood into a commercially zoned monstrosity that it wasn’t before. If I, one person out of the entire neighborhood, moved in and said “I’m setting up a big business here and I don’t care what you think about it” it would be really arrogant of me to do so in a quiet residential neighborhood.

He’s acting like an immature kid who can’t get his way doing something not acceptable in a nation of NIMBY’s so he’ll try to exact whatever petty revenge he can on people who don’t put up with his crap.

Just because his neighbors are “rich” doesn’t make this some special anointed action on his part either, it’s just buying into class warfare to believe so because “they’re rich”.