{"id":368178,"date":"2010-02-26T19:46:10","date_gmt":"2010-02-27T00:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c630a53ef01310f40e6d3970c"},"modified":"2010-02-27T03:43:37","modified_gmt":"2010-02-27T08:43:37","slug":"city-attorney-investigates-unpermitted-supergraphic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/368178","title":{"rendered":"City attorney investigates unpermitted supergraphic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/.a\/6a00d8341c630a53ef0120a8da1899970b-pi\" style=\"DISPLAY: inline\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Supergraphic-hollywood-mel-melcon\" border=\"0\" class=\"asset asset-image at-xid-6a00d8341c630a53ef0120a8da1899970b image-full \" src=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/.a\/6a00d8341c630a53ef0120a8da1899970b-800wi\" title=\"Supergraphic-hollywood-mel-melcon\"><\/img><\/a> <br \/><\/br>Los Angeles City Atty. Carmen Trutanich took aim Friday at another over-sized supergraphic, saying his office has opened an investigation into an unpermitted, multistory advertising image on a building at Hollywood Boulevard and Highland Avenue.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators with Trutanich\u2019s office went early Friday to a billboard where an oversized ad for the movie \u201cHow to Train Your Dragon\u201d is stretched across two sides of the 1927 First National Bank building. That building\u2019s owners do not have permission to erect such a sign, according to a Trutanich spokesman.<\/p>\n<p>The sign went up days after Trutanich filed a <a href=\"http:\/\/articles.latimes.com\/2010\/feb\/24\/local\/la-me-billboards24-2010feb24\">97-page lawsuit<\/a> against World Wide Rush and 26 other defendants alleging that supergraphics in a dozen locations pose a nuisance to the public. Trutanich spokesman John Franklin said he did not know the name of the company responsible for the new supergraphic on Hollywood Boulevard. But an activist with the <a href=\"http:\/\/banbillboardblight.org\/\">Coalition to Ban Billboard Blight<\/a> said he suspects that the company responsible for the image is iMedia Outdoor. <\/p>\n<p>The telephone number listed on a website for iMedia Outdoor connects callers to what appears to be a fax machine. The website said the locations of the company\u2019s signs are confidential.<\/p>\n<p>Dennis Hathaway, president of the Coalition to Ban Billboard Blight, said he was surprised to see the image go up so soon after Trutanich filed his case against World Wide Rush. \u201cTo put it up a day after is like thumbing their nose at the city,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEither they\u2019re not afraid of the city or they figure it\u2018s worth the risk,\u201d he said. \u201cThere\u2019s a lot of money involved.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0&#8212; David Zahniser at Los Angeles City Hall<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo credit: Mel Melcon \/ Los Angeles Times<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Los Angeles City Atty. Carmen Trutanich took aim Friday at another over-sized supergraphic, saying his office has opened an investigation into an unpermitted, multistory advertising image on a building at Hollywood Boulevard and Highland Avenue. Investigators with Trutanich\u2019s office went early Friday to a billboard where an oversized ad for the movie \u201cHow to Train [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4678,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-368178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4678"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=368178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368178\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=368178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=368178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=368178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}