Booting companies cannot charge more than $170 to remove the device; proponents contend it's more humane than getting towed.
The notorious parking boot could become more prevalent in Chicago under an ordinance amendment passed by a City Council committee Thursday that would allow the practice in private parking lots citywide.
Ex-alderman-turned-lobbyist Joe Moore spoke on behalf of the city’s largest private booting company, Innovative Parking Solutions, and attempted to play a video of two women distraught to find out their car was towed. Technical difficulties arose, but Moore summarized the clip as an illustration of why seeing your car remain on the premises but with a boot on its wheel is “less onerous, more humane.
“We’re creating more of a volatile atmosphere than we’ve had already,” Napolitano said. “We don’t have enough police. … Now our officers are going to be dispatched to an argument in the parking lot over boots from an independent company, not even by a city company, which is — I will guarantee you if this please doesn’t fall on deaf ears — is going to happen. I’ve seen it happen numerous, numerous occasions.
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