[texas booster]

From the comments section:

The Government’s South Coast Air Quality Management District inspectors have NOT been able to link any odors to the plant despite multiple visits during the receiving and grinding process. The owner had already installed two additional filtrations systems to abate any odors. The Government’s South Coast Air Quality Management District inspectors have NOT been able to link any odors to the plant despite multiple visits during the receiving and grinding process. The owner had already installed two additional filtrations systems to abate any odors.

Search the LA Times for a more complete story. The complaints seem to have been started by a councilman’s son. The neighborhood is in an industrial area that has a 30 acre open gravel pit across the street and various other industries. Most people in the area state that they have not noticed any significant odor.

[ThunderSleeps]

So what’s the real reason for this now? A shakedown for more taxes or paying an “odor abatement fee” to the city or some such? You can bet there’s $ behind them going after this guy since there’s apparently no real odor issue.

[Red Badger]

The complaints seem to have been started by a councilman’s son.

$hakedown.........

[jazusamo]

Yes, it does look like a shakedown. The son of councilman Hector Manuel Ortiz was the first person to complain of the odor.

Sriracha smell complaints began with Irwindale councilman's son