Downtown Champaign businesses lament new parking rules
CHAMPAIGN – Some downtown business owners are wondering if their businesses will be hurt now that patrons have to pay for parking until 9 p.m. during the week.
Monday was the first day of extended parking enforcement in downtown Champaign.
Joe Donahue, co-owner of the Esquire Lounge, 106 N. Walnut St., said extended parking enforcement is uniformly unpopular with downtown business owners, many of whom signed petitions objecting to the change.
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