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Tinley Park trustees weigh changes to 60-year-old overnight parking ordinance; direct staff to study pilot options
Summary
Trustees discussed possible updates to Tinley Park’s overnight parking ordinance — originally adopted in the late 1950s and last substantially amended decades ago — and directed staff to study data and design targeted pilot programs rather than adopt immediate changes.
Tinley Park trustees spent the majority of the Jan. 21 Committee of the Whole meeting discussing revisions to the village’s overnight parking ordinance — a rule trustees said dates to about 1958 and was last amended roughly in the mid-1980s. The committee did not adopt an ordinance change; instead trustees asked staff to study the issue and return recommendations, including the possibility of neighborhood pilot programs.
Trustees and staff noted several recurring concerns: narrow lot sizes in older neighborhoods, an increase in vehicles per household since the ordinance’s adoption, snowplow and emergency-vehicle access, enforcement workload, and equity between neighborhoods. Trustee Shaw urged a measured approach and suggested pilot tests in different areas using…
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