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Kankakee mayor, council agree to keep snow-route ordinance; administration to run outreach and set towing timing
Summary
Council debated whether to enforce the city—s snow-route no-parking rule after recent storms and agreed to keep the ordinance in place, begin targeted outreach (door hangers, robocalls, social media) and have administration set operational towing/timing with input from DPW and towing vendors.
Kankakee—s mayor raised a blunt choice at the Nov. 17 City Council meeting: enforce the long-standing snow-route parking ordinance or repeal it. After a sustained exchange, council members voted informally to keep the ordinance and asked the administration to plan outreach and enforcement procedures.
"We either enforce the ordinance or we get rid of the ordinance," the mayor said on the council floor, framing enforcement as necessary to keep emergency lanes clear.
Alderman Osinga urged…
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