A family’s battle to reopen its Anaheim business and the legal action that alleges wrongdoing by former city power brokers.
An empty lot where an Arco gas station once stood and a Shell station on the corner of La Palma Avenue and Imperial Highway in Anaheim, CA, on Tuesday, August 1, 2023. Todd Ament, former CEO of the Anaheim Chamber of Commerce, at an event in 2011. Yes, the saga of Isa Bahu and his family’s gas station reads like a bad dime store novel. But it could cost Anaheim millions nonetheless.
But Orange County grew, and roads needed widening, and old gas stations needed environmental cleanup. There was eminent domain and legal wrangling and the Bahu’s Arco station was torn down in 2003 and scrubbed. City officials assured the Bahu family that it would be able to rebuild, eventually.In the interim, a Shell station went up across the street, belonging to Navaz Malik. Malik was good pals with Sidhu — contributed to Sidhu’s campaigns, hosted a Sidhu fundraiser.
Weirdness ensued. Edgar Hampton, then-president of the Anaheim Police Association, opposed the project in a letter to the Planning Commission. “There has never been another situation where the Anaheim Police Association was consulted to provide police department records for a planning department issue,” the suit says.The project was approved by Anaheim’s planning commission in 2019 anyway.
But the Bahu family fought on. Of course, the Shell station wants to preserve its monopoly, they told city officials. Our project will drive down the price of gas in that corner of Anaheim Hills and tighten their margins. That might not be good for the Shell station, but it will be good for the people of Anaheim Hills.
Perhaps in the pettiest move of all, city code enforcement removed a sign on the Bahu property supporting Sidhu challenger Ashleigh Aitken.
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