Providing secure bicycle parking is a necessary part of the City’s bicycle network, allowing people to use their bikes for transportation and reducing parking in undesirable places.
Downtown Bicycle Parking
The City of Urbana encourages and welcomes you to downtown Urbana to visit the many restaurants, art galleries, and shopping. Bicyclists are required to walk their bikes on downtown sidewalks and yield to pedestrians
A map of downtown bicycle racks, including the number of available spaces, is provided below in the Supporting Documents.
Bicycle Parking Rules
Please do not attach your bicycle to a tree, parking meter post, street light post, traffic signal post, or like object. Any bicycle (including but not limited to scooters, mopeds, segways, etc.) that is parked and locked to property (hydrant, power pole, streetlight pole, sign, meter post, tree, bush, traffic signal, etc.) in the City right-of-way is prohibited, according to Section 8.35 of the Urbana Public Works Department Policy and Procedure Manual.
What Happens if Your Bicycle Receives a Sticker
Public Works personnel will affix a sticker on the spoke of bicycles in violation of the rule. The sticker indicates that the owner must move the bicycle.
The Public Works Department will maintain a log of all tagged bicycles and periodically monitor the bicycles to determine if they have been moved.
The owner of a tagged bicycle has up to 72 hours to remove a bicycle that is locked to property in the city right-of-way. If the bicycle is not removed, it is considered abandoned and Public Works personnel will remove and impound the bicycle.
The owner of the bicycle shall have up to two weeks (14 calendar days) to claim the impounded bicycle. If the bicycle is not claimed within the two week period, the City may dispose of the bicycle as it deems appropriate.