Private booters roaming free in more than half of Chicago’s 50 wards could soon get the go-ahead to take their controversial, car-disabling operations citywide.
“Please think about this and why we’re doing this. It’s better for the businesses. And we need to support it.”
To remove one of Innovative Parking’s wheel-locking boots, a motorist “pays a $170 fine at the location and is free to get in the car and drive away.” “One of the things that businesses struggle against, particularly in our more densely populated areas of the city, is those that have parking lots to serve their customers often have their parking spaces taken up with people who use it as free parking and go shopping elsewhere, thereby taking spaces away from potential paying customers,” Moore said.
West Side Ald. Chris Taliaferro , a retired police officer now chairing the Committee on Public Safety, made the opposite argument — that private towing on a lot that was once a magnet for drug dealing and prostitution in his ward has been the salvation for his crime-weary residents.Over the years, the burgeoning use of private booting has been mired in controversy.
Three years ago, alderpersons ignored price gouging concerns and empowered private companies to raise boot removal fees by $30 in exchange for stiffer regulations.
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