After years of sending letters and emails to council members and city departments to address illegal parking issues and report that expensive and exotic vehicles were clogging residential streets, Silver Lake resident Brian Behrend finally turned to the NBC4 investigative team. The result? The day after the NBC story aired, City Attorney Mike Feuer accused the two shops — Hi Tech Automotive and Sublime Silverlake — of illegal street parking and storage of numerous vehicles along Fountain Avenue (Feuer subsequently acknowledged that resolving the issue “took too long.”) The city attorney filed misdemeanor charges against the two businesses on March 15.
View the NBC4 story here.
Read the Los Angeles Times article here.