Sounds to me like the gym owner is conducting business in the cemetery. People are paying money to exercise and he is having them do it outside his property. As others have said, I bet zoning would love to hear about this issue. If zoning thinks its no big deal, maybe mention your friend owns a bar close by and you are going to have an outdoor concert in the open field of the cemetery. When they say you cant, mention that the gym owner is doing the same thing so untill they shut him down, you are free to have a concert. They will mention the booze part of it but just say you thought of that, no booze will be sold there, the drunks can walk back to the bar to get a drink and they walk back for the music. They may even mention being too loud, just say its an unplugged concert thus very quite, at least no louder than people running, laughing and exercising. Then tell them you ran it by your lawyer already and he informed you that you would be doing nothing different than what is already going on and in that case, you will be forced to defend yourself in what could be a highly publicized case. Right then you should remove a notebook from your pocket and ask the persons full name and job title, then look at your watch and start wrighting (this part works very well and puts the fear of god in city employees).
If you play your hand well, no blinking, they will be out of the cemetery within a week. You wont be popular with the gym crowd or owner, but who cares. Remember, there is a huge difference in John Q Public taking a stroll in the cemetery because its safer/quieter than walking on the street to burn off that extra 5 pounds compaired to a gym owner conducting business in the cemetery. In fact it dont have to be a cemetery, ANY business operating in ANY way outside of its property will cause problems with permits and zoning. Here, we have conditional use permits that way if a business starts changing the way they do things, zoning just revokes the permit. Very powerful way of doing things.
FWIW, I dont have a problem with the people around here that walk the cemeterys. Its hardly ever more than pairs, they even whisper as they walk (usually because they are gossiping) and because they are there, the kids that like to kick over the stones tend to stay away. I do have a problem with what you discribed though; too many, too loud and too disrespectful. And the owner didnt help his own cause either argueing with you on facebook. Copy that facebook post, you may need it later. In my opinion, the owner just threw down the gauntlet by ganging up on you via facebook, I would pick up the gauntlet and beat him with it via zoning.
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