Gary Schwartz, an Evanston resident for 54 years, said some parking meters don’t work when he inserts money. So he sent a written complaint to Ald. Thomas Suffredin (6th). But after many emails to Suffredin and other officials, Schwartz gave up. According to the city’s Parking Study Executive Summary, the “quaint community with a small.
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Homeowners fume about plan to fine them for putting plants on the parkway.
People are passionate about parkway plantings. Say that five times fast.
Okay, don’t. The sixty people who attended a virtual public hearing Wednesday night about the city’s proposed new parkway planting rules were passionate enough.
And their message to City staff could perhaps be summed up by what resident Lucy Elam had to say: “You need to take this back and scrap it and start over.”
Parkways are the grassy strips between a sidewalk and the street. It’s city-owned property, but homeowners are expected to take care of the land, and, if they get a permit, can put in plants.