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Valet Parking Permit

 

pdf icon Valet Parking Permit Application

  • Print and complete the permit and mail in with your payment.
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  • Print, complete and mail the permit, or fax to 847-448-8118. Contact Traffic Engineering with your credit card number for payment.
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  • Print and complete the permit and bring into Traffic Engineering along with your payment.

Information and Requirements:

No one shall conduct a valet parking operation on the public way without first having obtained a permit from the City of Evanston, If the business desiring to provide valet parking service proposes to contract with another company to provide this service, then both the business and the valet parking company shall be listed on the application. If the permit is approved, the permit holder shall be the business. The applicant must specify where the vehicles accepted for parking will be stored. The area must be off of the right of way and may be a private or public lot. If the property is not owned by the applicant, a lease or other evidence of agreement for the use of the property must be provided with the application. Such permit shall be nontransferable.

 

Vehicles may not be double-parked or parked in a legal or illegal on-street space at any time.


The valet shall not enter or exit a customers vehicle except in the designated transfer space.


Once the vehicle is transferred from the customer to the valet parker, it shall be moved to the off-street location
Spaces reserved for transfer of vehicles shall not be used for storing of any vehicles.


The business offering the valet service to its customers is the permit holder, and is to provide the following:


Certificate of Insurance in the amount of $1,000,000 general liability naming the City of Evanston as Additional insured.
Completed Application, with signed liability waiver/indemnification agreement.


Documentation showing approval of property owner for use of offstreet storage for vehicles.


A check for the appropriate fee made payable to the City of Evanston.


Fees

If no existing legal parking spaces are reserved then the annual fee is one hundred fifty dollars ($150.00). If one or two (2) existing legal parking spaces are reserved for the transfer area, then the annual fee shall be three hundred dollars ($300.00). The period during which the permit is valid is one year beginning on the date the permit application is approved.

 

Sign

Each applicant, upon approval of the application by the City, is eligible to place one sign on the right of way indicating the availability of valet parking. The sign shall conform to the sign specifications found in subsection 7-2-6(E)5. A drawing to scale of the proposed sign shall accompany the application. The location of the sign shall be approved by the City Traffic Engineer.