The other day I blogged about a situation at the gallery where the City painted a parking spot and put in a parking meter right in front of our driveway. Shortly there after I was getting calls from city offices about it and today it's in the LA Times.

And who says blogs can't change the world?

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Steve Harvey:
Only in L.A.
Portrait of an Overzealous City Parking Revenue Planner

L.A. gallery owners Sean Bonner and Caryn Coleman grew suspicious when they found an odd thing at their driveway entrance: Markings painted by city workers indicating that it was now a curbside parking space (see photo).

And at one end of the driveway, Bonner recounted on the blogging.la website, they spotted a parking meter pole, headless for now, but obviously prepped to support a coin confiscator.

Bonner called the city and explained that the driveway was needed to truck artwork in and out of the double doors of their gallery, Sixspace, on West 23rd Street.

He got a call back from someone at the Transportation Department who "thought the driveway was abandoned." Bonner has been assured by the mayor's office that the lifeline to his gallery will be restored. And the parking meter pole? It will be driven away from the driveway.