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APA director details towing, payment plans and return of 24/7 enforcement at Allentown council meeting
Summary
At a special Allentown City Council meeting, APA Executive Director John Haney reviewed the agency's 2025–2026 operations — including towing counts, a new payment‑plan program, reinstated 24/7 safety patrols and a debt load that constrains revenue sharing with the city — and answered council questions about residential permits and street‑cleaning enforcement.
John Haney, executive director of the Allentown Parking Authority, outlined the agency's annual report and answered detailed questions from City Council and residents at a special meeting on April 16, 2026.
Haney said the authority removed 132 abandoned vehicles last year, worked with the County Auto Theft Task Force to recover eight stolen cars and handled 17,866 calls to its dispatch line in the prior year. He reported towing totals of 156 vehicles so far in 2026, with specific causes including 43 for 72‑hour violations, 70 for fire‑hydrant parking and 12 for unpaid tickets. For the full year 2025, Haney said the APA towed 957 vehicles, with the largest single category being unpaid tickets (380) and a substantial miscellaneous category (174) for hazards or stripped vehicles.
"We track all of the vehicles that we tow and the various reasons that we tow them," Haney said, and added the authority…
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