\n\tRambling Reporter isn\u2019t exactly sure what a city controller does but didn\u2019t expect \u201cpublic bathroom mapper\u201d to be part of the job.<\/p>\n
\n\tEven so, Kenneth Mejia, the billboard- and social media-savvy city controller of Los Angeles (you may have seen his pie chart billboards around town), has been busy with a new public tool that would make George Costanza proud: bathrooms.lacontroller.app.<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cWe made this site because, in the summer, it was hot and we wanted to help our unhoused neighbors find a place to use the restroom and also drink water,\u201d said Mejia in an Instagram video announcing the free app that displays every public restroom and drinking fountain around town.<\/p>\n
\n\tIf Costanza is the reason you learned the public facilities at Alice Tully Hall in Manhattan\u2019s Lincoln Center are magnificent, then maybe Mejia will be the reason you discover the commode at the Hollywood Bowl is clean and open to the public. And if you\u2019re worried about getting a parking ticket while you run to the restroom, well, Mejia has an app for that too: parkingtickets.lacontroller.app. The site\u2019s dashboard displays a heat map of where parking tickets are most common in the city of L.A. (downtown through Koreatown is the largest single block), as well as the most common violations (no parking\/street cleaning is the top infraction by far).<\/p>\n
\n\tSo will all this help Mejia get reelected as city controller in 2026? He definitely has the attention of parking voters and restroom-users. Oh, and Rambling looked up what a controller actually does: It\u2019s basically the city\u2019s chief accountant. <\/p>\n
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