Champaign businesses worried about parking meter hikes
By Mike Monson
Sunday November 4, 2007
John Dixon
Claudie Lennhoff, executive director of Champaign County Health Care Consumers, has helped collect more than 1,000 signatures on a petition against parking increases.
CHAMPAIGN – Sam Issa isn't one of those downtown businessmen who caters to an upscale crowd.
Issa owns and operates Sam's Cafe, 115 N. Walnut St., a small diner that sells breakfast and lunch and draws a good crowd of budget-conscious patrons. His breakfast special: Two eggs, bacon and toast for $3.40.
So Issa is worried – probably more than most business owners – about city plans to increase parking meter rates in the core of downtown Champaign from the current 25 cents per hour to 75 cents per hour, effective Jan. 1.
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