Its clear the town council deliberately screwed this guy over for the concrete factory, and drove him to this. Very clear.
It certainly appears that way.
Why would they effectively cut off or remove access road to his business though? Why is a cement plant going in, mutually exclusive to his muffler shop? I mean couldn’t they have both, don’t cities want the tax revenue after all? It doesn’t make sense unless they had a hard on for this guy for (previous) disputes?
It sure illustrates the fact that people may have no effective redress against an out of control government when it goes rogue.