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Downers Grove council adopts ordinance to regulate electric scooters
Summary
The Village Council unanimously adopted an ordinance adding electric scooters to the village's micromobility regulations and directed staff to launch public education if approved.
The Downers Grove Village Council voted unanimously Oct. 14 to adopt an ordinance establishing regulations for electric scooters, adding the device to the village's existing micromobility framework. Council members made a brief clarification that the new ordinance would add electric scooters to current micromobility rules and would not alter previously adopted rules for e-bikes (council clarification, SEG 780'SEG 786).
After a motion to adopt the ordinance and a second, Clerk (called for by the mayor) recorded a unanimous roll-call vote in favor (roll call SEG 791'SEG 802). Staff said a public-education campaign would follow implementation if the ordinance were approved (staff remark, SEG 786).
The ordinance brings scooters into the village's enforcement and safety framework; staff will prepare education and launch details with communications partners.
