The city of Iriwndale is not a “city” in classical terms, as the “community” consists almost entirely of businesses. To give you an idea, this “city” has a little over a thousand residents, and lots and lots of rock quarries.
Some of the individual businesses in the city have more employees on site than the city has residents.
Like many similar small, incorporated civil jurisdictions in California made up almost exclusively of corporate interests, the “city” of Irwindale is more akin to a protection racket than a community. The local politicians exist primarily to shakedown corporations in the area, and collect as much in the way of kickbacks and bribe money as they can get away with, all conveniently legitimized as “city revenue” an “pay raises”.
My impression is that this is not about a nuisance complaint about odor, but is instead about a business refusing to grease the right palms. You see, this controversy started just as soon as Huy Fong foods paid off a loan to the city that had been generating a quarter-million a year in revenue (officially) for the city of Irwindale. The city was pissed off that they lost a revenue stream, and that the company had paid the loan off early cutting the city out of additional accrued interest.
sounds like the city of Bell and Vernon
Say, that does ring a Bell.