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You have no right to stop me from enjoying my property as long as I don't hurt you in the process. Ever heard of Libertarianism?

You are misapplying the concepts. You seem stuck on the mistaken belief that you somehow have rights to other people's property.

I'll go through this even though it didn't seem necessary before.

If you buy a house next to vacant land and you enjoy the solitude of having no neighbors and the view of the land that is not currently occupied and then someone comes along and buys the property and builds a house on it (or a subdivision, or a shopping mall) and it ruins your view and solitude and therefore your enjoyment of your property, what are your "rights"? Think about this and spare me from scores more of examples.

It is the failure of local Judges and Councils to act with more scope of discertionary authority in resolving property issues between neighors -- primarily big developers -- that has caused, more than anything, the property-right ruining wordy, obtuse and petty zoning laws we have today.

That is overzealotry in defense of "process" in property rights in specific cases caused those very property rights to be greviously and generally impaired.

You are missing the point. He did not build the house solely to punish you or extort money from you. If he built a wall that blocked your view and then demanded $30k to remove the wall, that would be a similar case.