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New Metered Parking Machines Coming To Broadview

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A parking kiosk located in Oak Park that was manufactured by Total Parking Solutions. Kiosks like this may likely be coming to Broadview's Roosevelt Road and 17th Avenue commercial district now that the village board unanimously approved a contract with TPS. | File

Friday, December 9, 2022 || By Michael Romain || @maywoodnews

The village of Broadview is in the process of implementing metered parking along the Roosevelt Road commercial corridor.

During a regular meeting on Dec. 5, the Broadview village board voted unanimously to contract with Total Parking Solutions Inc. (TPS), a parking equipment manufacturer based in Downers Grove, to provide the village with metered parking kiosks that will be installed in phases along major commercial corridors in the village, mainly along Roosevelt Road.

Jesse Zawacki, an account specialist with TPS, told board members on Dec. 5 that the new kiosks will be "essentially an iPad built into a parking terminal."

Matthew Ames, the village's public works director, said he and Broadview Police Chief Thomas Mills have been working on a comprehensive parking plan for the last several years.

Ames said the metered terminals will be installed in phases, with the first ones coming to the newly paved municipal parking lots on 14th, 15th and 18th avenues, along with the municipal lot directly behind the Blue Note Jazz Club, 1715 Roosevelt Rd. He said hopefully by the spring and summer, more terminals will be installed "to the diagonal [parking spaces] up and down Roosevelt Road and some areas of 17th Avenue."

Ames said commuters could scan a code, type in their license plate number and register their vehicle on the kiosks. TPS has dozens of municipal clients, including Oak Park, Forest Park and Bellwood, according to its website.

The front of the TPS kiosk in Oak Park. | A TPS employee told Broadview board members that the new kiosks are "essentially an iPad built into a parking terminal." | File

Chief Mills said there will be no set pay rate for the kiosks until the village gets "a better grasp on how parking will be set up." Ames said several years ago TPS conducted a pro forma analysis of possible pay rates that the village might charge, which range from $0.50 an hour to $0.75 an hour. TPS charges a convenience fee of $0.37 per hour, Ames said.

Mills said regular police officers will handle parking enforcement for the initial rollout. Once the department gathers enough data on parking, then he’ll discuss possibly hiring a community service officer or a code enforcement officer who would handle parking enforcement.

Village officials did not go into detail about a timeline for when the parking changes will take place or how much TPS will charge the village for the machines. Ames said the village could pay for the new kiosks out of the proposed Roosevelt Road and 17th Avenue tax increment financing (TIF) district.

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