Downtown Merchant Parking Regulations Change

The Arlington Heights Village Board has extended free shopper parking time limits in village garages.

Shoppers now will have free parking for four hours instead of three. There also is a a new $15 monthly parking permit for specific designated daily fee areas available for those who work downtown. 

Free, on-street parking spaces will continue to have a two-hour limit from 5 a.m. to 7 p.m., Monday through Saturday. There are no time limits for on-street parking in the downtown after 7 p.m., Monday through Saturday, or all day on Sunday.

No parking is allowed on any village streets between 2 a.m. and 5 a.m.    

Visitors who believe they might spend longer than two hours downtown should consider using the four-hour free shopper parking in the garages, or consider using the daily fee parking spaces in the village garages and commuter lots. The daily fee spaces cost $1.50 for an entire day.  

Daily fee parking spaces are free after noon on weekdays and all day on weekends.

The village has added 34 daily fee parking spaces that have been recently added to the ramp leading to the top floor of the municipal parking garage, located adjacent to village hall at Sigwalt and Arlington Heights roads.   

The $30 merchant permit for parking in permit parking spaces in the Vail Garage, North Garage and Evergreen Garage also are available.

The new Discount Merchant permit can only be used in spaces marked “Daily Fee," not in the “Permit Parking” spaces.  

Workers in downtown can purchase $15 Discounted Merchant Permits at the finance department’s front counter on the first floor of Village Hall, 33 S. Arlington Heights Rd., from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. on weekdays. 

Proof of employment at a downtown store or business will be required.