Alderman Fights Valets

So the city has a $420 million budget hole, the County sheriff refuses to enforce some evictions, crime is skyrocketing, and now Alderman Brendan Reilly (42nd) is pursuing a crusade against...valets. Reilly wants to change valet parking space requirements from 10 percent of a restaurant's seating capacity to 25 percent. So far this year, valet companies have been issued over 780 citations by police. Said Reilly:

People discover weeks, sometimes months, later that they've received parking tickets when they've left their vehicles with a valet. We see entire residential neighborhoods being taken over by valet-parked vehicles...We need to correct this bad behavior...The greatest demand for valet is in the evening. Many of the downtown parking facilities have excess capacity. There are available options.