The following terms when used in this article shall have the
meanings respectively ascribed to them:
Driveway.
The continuous improved surface which provides ingress and
egress from a garage, carport or off-street parking area, to an adjacent
street, alley or other improved public way.
Farm tractor.
Every motor vehicle designed and used primarily as a farm
implement for drawing plows, mowing machines and other implement(s)
of husbandry.
Gravel.
Washed or cleaned stones with a nominal diameter of 1-1/2
inches or less.
Implement(s) of husbandry.
Every vehicle designed and adopted for use as a farm implement,
machinery or tool as used in tilling the soil, but shall not include
any passenger vehicle.
Improved surface.
The continuous area used for the movement, parking or storage
of a vehicle(s) that is overlaid or otherwise paved with 3000 p.s.i.
Portland cement concrete with a depth of not less than five (5) inches
and reinforced with number 3 reinforcement bar; solid concrete blocks;
paving stones; paving bricks or other masonry paving stone suitable
for such purpose installed on an approved base course or other hard-surfaced
durable material designed to support vehicular weight and approved
by the building official.
Park, parking.
The standing of a vehicle, whether occupied or not, other
than temporarily for the purpose of and while actually engaged in
loading or unloading merchandise or passengers.
Privacy fence.
A solid or opaque wall or partition at least six (6) feet
and not over eight (8) feet in height; or vegetation consisting of
a solid hedgerow or evergreen shrubs, or trees and shrubs, providing
full screening from the ground to a minimum height of six (6) feet;
or any combination of the above that effectively conceals the vehicle
from public view and accomplishes the required screening height; or
any other form of compatible and appropriate screening as so determined
by the building official.
Special motor vehicle.
Includes boats, boat trailers, travel trailers, pickup campers
and coaches (designed to be mounted upon automotive vehicles), motorized
dwellings (RVs), tent trailers and the like as well as cases or boxes
used for transporting such vehicles, whether occupied by such vehicles
or not.
Unimproved surface.
A driveway or parking area covered only with asphalt, bordered
gravel or a combination of these.
Unscreened.
Not concealed or hidden behind a privacy fence.
Vehicle.
Any and every device in, upon or by which a person, persons,
or property may be transported, drawn or moved upon a street, highway,
waterway or airway and shall include but is not limited to any automobile,
bus, truck, tractor, motorhome, farm machinery, motorcycle, scooter,
moped, all-terrain vehicle, boat, boat trailer, aircraft, recreational
vehicle, golf cart, trailer, fifth wheel trailer, camper, camper shell,
camper trailer, wheeled towing frame, semitractor, semitractor trailer,
truck bed mounted on a chassis and mobile home. This definition does
not include nonmotorized bicycles, small engine lawn mowers, and devices
of a similar scale.
Yard, front.
A yard located in front of the front elevation of a building
and extending across a lot between the side yard lines and being the
minimum horizontal distance between the front property line and the
outside wall of the main building.
Yard, rear.
A yard extending across the rear of a lot measured between
the lot lines and being the minimum horizontal distance between the
rear lot line and the rear of the outside wall of the main building.
On both corner lots and interior lots, the rear yard shall in all
cases be at the opposite end of the lot from the front yard.
Yard, side.
A yard between the building and sideline of the lot and extending
from the front lot line to the rear lot line and being the minimum
horizontal distance between a side lot line and the outside wall of
the side of the main building.
(Ordinance 748-03 adopted 4/7/03; Ordinance O-12-10, sec. 2, adopted 6/21/10)
(a) The parking of any vehicle, in the front yard on an unimproved surface
is prohibited.
(b) The parking of any vehicle in the side yard must be screened from
public or private view behind a minimum six-foot-high privacy fence,
unless the vehicle is parked on an improved surface with a minimum
clearance of two (2) feet from an adjoining property.
(c) The parking of any vehicle in an unscreened rear yard upon any surface
other than an improved rear or side entry driveway or required parking
surface shall be prohibited. In no case shall more than one (1) vehicle
be parked or stored in such an area and such screening shall be by
means of a minimum six-foot-high privacy fence.
(d) Recreational vehicles, travel trailers, camper trailers, trailers,
boats, boat trailers, motor homes or other recreational vehicles or
equipment may not be used for on-site dwelling purposes, and shall
be parked and stored on an improved surface and behind the rear building
facade of the main structure (i.e., the house) and screened from public
view at all times of the year by a fence or perennial vegetation.
(e) No such vehicles shall be used for living, sleeping or housekeeping
or similar purposes when parked or stored on a residential lot, or
in any location not approved for such use, except as specified in
this section.
(f) As defined and set out in the city’s zoning ordinance, no required
parking space, garage, carport, or other automobile storage space
shall be used for the storage of any special motor vehicle, limousine,
RV, trailer, boat, wrecker, truck-tractor rig or trailer, camper or
camper shell, or other similar recreational, dwelling or business
vehicle.
(g) No heavy load vehicles are allowed to be stored or parked in residential
areas on a regular or repetitive basis.
(h) Exceptions to the regulations stated herein for parking in residential
districts:
(1) Vehicles actively engaged in service or delivery functions for the
period of time actually engaged in the service or delivery activity;
(2) Publicly owned or franchised emergency or utility vehicles making
residential repair calls or emergency utility service repairs;
(4) Street construction and maintenance vehicles; or
(5) Recreational vehicles or equipment being loaded, unloaded, or otherwise
prepared for use or storage during a period of time which does not
exceed twenty-four (24) hours.
(Ordinance 748-03 adopted 4/7/03; Ordinance O-12-10, sec. 2, adopted 6/21/10)
(a) Parking surfaces in the front and side yards must be contiguous to,
and on paved concrete or asphalt surface as defined and according
to the city’s adopted standard construction details. For parking
areas used with residences that had gravel driveways in existence
prior to the adoption of this article (April 7, 2003), gravel may
be used for additional parking spaces. Whenever such a parking area
is increased to the extent of fifty percent (50%) or more, in the
area used, said surface shall meet the paving requirements of this
article. Subsurface preparation for parking areas shall be approved
by the building official.
(b) Parking surfaces, other than the approved driveway, shall not extend
beyond the property lines, nor encroach over or upon any public utility
easement or right-of-way.
(c) Parking spaces shall conform to the requirements for the specific
district set out in the zoning ordinance and additional parking spaces
in excess of the minimum shall minimally be eight (8) by twenty (20)
feet in size. It shall not be a sufficient parking space to provide
runners or pads under the tires and/or trailer tongue only.
(d) Parking surfaces must be in conformance with any applicable requirements
of the city construction standard details manual, and/or the city
building code. The building official shall establish and maintain
a set of standard construction details for parking surfaces and driveway
surfaces. Materials, such as roofing scraps, shingles, shredded tires,
rubble and similar material may not be used for parking surfaces.
The building official must approve any material to be utilized as
an approved surface to the extent not otherwise provided herein or
by other city ordinance.
(e) All parking surfaces shall be kept free of weeds and other vegetative
growth.
(f) Parking areas in the front yard may not exceed 50% coverage of the
front yard area. Parking areas in the rear yard may not exceed 30%
coverage, and shall be consistent with the applicable requirements
of the city’s zoning ordinance for the district in which the
parking surface is located. To the extent the zoning ordinance provides
for different lot coverage, the zoning ordinance controls.
(g) Parking areas may not be used to store junk or inoperative vehicles,
as that term is defined by city ordinance.
(h) It shall be unlawful for an operator of any vehicle to drive over
a raised curb to park or stand a vehicle on property used for residential
purposes.
(i) It shall be unlawful to leave, stand or park a vehicle on a public
sidewalk or any part of a sidewalk or parkway area including the extension
of a public sidewalk across a driveway except when necessary to avoid
conflict with other traffic or in compliance with the direction of
a peace officer or traffic-control device.
(Ordinance 748-03 adopted 4/7/03; Ordinance O-12-10, sec. 2, adopted 6/21/10)