You answered your own question, at least as it would pertain to neighbors (noise and strobing lights).
What point is there in pushing a technicality...?
The city argues the prohibited "structure" (concrete foundation, anchor bolts, etc.) has not been removed. The city engineers have no doubt pointed out that removal of that added structure poses no danger to the integrity of the earlier existing house. If the guy or his contractor had placed the structure within the sideset due to some good faith error the city might have issued a variance for the foundation. But instead, he has acted throughout as though the city has no authority over the matter. Bad move.
It has been fun, have a nice evening.
And you know jolly well you have a losing case in the end... that’s why you are going.
Nobody’s bothered any more with the turbine, it is long gone, yet the people are insisting on sticking it to the fellow.
The people are going to get what they earned by doing that, methinks.