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Peoria Council changes emergency snow route parking fines

The Peoria City Council approved reducing the fines for parking on snow routes by $200. City Manager Patrick Urich says changing the fine to $50 daily will help with collecting the parking fines:

“So this is a way to still mete out a certain level of punishment for parking on the snow routes while at the same time hopefully getting some compliance.”

The tickets for parking on emergency snow routes can be written every 24 hours. In other business the council approved zoning changes that require future proposed medical marijuana sites to go through a public hearing proce