Downtown Champaign businesses lament new parking rules
By Mike Monson
Tuesday July 15, 2008
John Dixon
Champaign parking enforcement Officer Isaac Hunter places a 'courtesy reminder' on a car parked at an expired meter after 5 p.m. Monday on Walnut Street in Champaign. Hunter said the reminder said payment is now required at all downtown meters until 9 p.m. and that parking enforcement officers would begin ticketing cars at expired meters Tuesday.
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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