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TO: Mayor Thomas J. Weisner
FROM: Charles Koch, Assistant Director of Finance
DATE: August 6, 2015
SUBJECT:
An ordinance amending Chapter 27 of the Aurora Code of Ordinances regarding parking enforcement issues.
PURPOSE:
To amend parking ordinance to provide for a new payment method and the issuance of a warning ticket for parking violators at the city's commuter train stations.
BACKGROUND:
New payment machines are being installed at both train stations that will require the car license plate number to be used to identify a commuter's payment. We currently log into the payment system and pull a paid report and then walk or drive around the lot looking for the unpaid cars to issue hand written tickets which are $25.00 for no daily fee and $50.00 for no permit.
DISCUSSION:
At the Route 25 Transit Center, two different payment systems have been used. The main lot has used a pay-and-display system while the Lincoln Avenue lot used a pay-by-space system. However, a commuter could not pay in the main lot for the Lincoln Avenue lot or vice versa. New pay machines will use a common identifier which will allow for payments at any machine regardless of which part of the lot a commuter is parked.
At the Route 59 Transit Center, a revamping of the lot will remove the space numbers so pay-by-plate will be needed there. Pay-by-plate also allows us to use the license plate recognition equipment in the lot and eliminate the need to walk through the lot to do enforcement.
We also are adding a first-time warning ticket for people who park in the permit section of the train stations without a monthly permit. Currently, a ticket is written for all offenses. Oftentimes new daily commuters do not understand the parking process. Some inadvertently park in the permit area and are issued a $50.00 ticket. The issuance of warning tickets will allow new commuters time to learn the parking process at their chosen lot before they pay a financial penalt...
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