Our colleague Pat Saperstein, an EAT: Los Angeles contributor and the proprietor of EatingLA.com, has a good piece on her site about Tom LaBonge’s misguided effort to limit food trucks, and she makes a plea for L.A. eaters to sign the petition to protect mobile vendors. Here’s how her piece starts:

I know being a restaurant owner is no picnic, but I despite my generally good feelings for councilman Tom LaBonge, I think his call for more regulations for food trucks—including prohibiting them from using metered spaces at all— is generally a poor idea. Take the stretch of Wilshire which seems to be the source of the most complaints. I’ve worked there for 15 years, and I’ve been complaining about the food around there for just as long. The lack of street life around there was dreary, considering that thousands of people work in the area and need to eat lunch.

Read the rest on EatingLA.com.