Supplementary parking and temporary storage regulations

A. Continuation of facilities. The schedule of requirements for off-street parking space shall be a continuing obligation of the owner of the real estate on which any such structure is located as long as the structure is in existence and its use requiring vehicle parking facilities continues. It shall be a violation of this chapter for an owner of any building affected by this section to discontinue, change or dispense with or cause the discontinuance or change of required vehicle parking space, apart from the discontinuance, sale or transfer of such structure, without establishing alternative vehicle parking space which meets with the requirements of and is in compliance with this article.
B. Parking not required. Where a lot abuts upon a street or place which, due to topographic conditions or excessive grades, is not accessible by vehicle and such lot is to be occupied by not more than a one-family dwelling, no parking space shall be required.
Editor's Note: Former Subsection B, Mixed uses, was repealed 10-6-2011 by Ch. 2981, which chapter also redesignated former Subsections C through K as Subsections B through J.
C. In residential zones, major recreation equipment, which includes travel trailers, pickup campers or coaches, motorized dwellings, tent trailers, boats, boat trailers and similar equipment, but does not include mobile homes or storage trailers, owned and registered to a person residing on the premises shall be either parked or temporarily stored in accordance with the following regulations, or shall be parked or stored in completely enclosed structures:
[Amended 4-23-2008 by Ch. No. 2887]
- (1) No more than one of any of the following shall be parked or stored on a lot in a residential zone: boat and boat trailer, item of mobile camping equipment or other noncommercial trailer.
- (2) No boat or boat trailer or item of mobile camping equipment shall be parked between the primary structure and street frontage.
- (3) No major recreation equipment shall be stored out-of-doors in residential districts unless it is in a condition for safe and effective performance of the function for which it was intended.
D. No boat, item of mobile camping equipment or other noncommercial trailer shall be used or occupied for living, sleeping or housekeeping purposes when parked or stored on a lot in a residential zone.
E. Boats and boat trailers, mobile camping equipment and other noncommercial trailers not owned and operated by a person residing on the premises shall not be parked or stored on a lot in a residential zone.
F. An unoccupied manufactured home shall not be parked or stored on a lot in a residential zone. A single manufactured home shall not be used or occupied for dwelling purposes, except in a manufactured home park.
G. No commercial or noncommercial manufactured home trailer, occupied or unoccupied, shall be allowed to be stored, parked or used for any purpose in a commercial or manufacturing zone, except any authorized manufactured home dealership.
H. Commercial-type trailers used as field offices for construction purposes shall be allowed for the duration of the project in all zones.
I. Mobile storage and refuse containers, any enclosed or partially enclosed unit, including, but not limited to, “POD” units that are intended for delivery to a customer’s site for loading and unloading, may be stored on any property with a residential use for no more than 72 hours. Containers associated with construction activity may be stored for no more than 30 days.
[Added 8-20-2009 by Ch. No. 2928]
J. Mobile storage and refuse containers, any enclosed or partially enclosed unit, including, but not limited to, truck trailers, may be stored on any property for no longer than 30 consecutive days, provided that they do not interfere with normal traffic and parking operations on any property within a commercial or industrial zone, unless that property has a residential use.
[Added 8-20-2009 by Ch. No. 2928]

Editor's Note: The title of this section was amended to add "and temporary storage" 8-20-2009 by Ch. No. 2928.