Chapter 10.60 — VEHICLE REPAIR, PARKING AND STORING

A.

No person shall park, store, place, or allow to remain on front yards, side yards, back yards, parking strips, planting strips, sidewalks, curbs, or on any street, any vehicle incapable of movement under its own power, or any disabled motor vehicle whether capable of movement or not, motor vehicle parts, equipment, machinery, tools, or other similar materials of any kind, or greases, oils, paints, or their containers, for a period of more than seventy-two hours in any thirty-day period. Said vehicles shall include but not be limited to destruction derby cars or similar automobiles.

B.

No person shall construct, reconstruct, disassemble, repair, or service any motor vehicle, motorcycle, boat, household appurtenance, upon any residential yards between ten p.m. and seven a.m. if a nuisance is created. No person shall do any such work, or allow work to be done, in any front yard at any time, except for emergency work, which does not extend over a period of two hours. The burden of showing that the work was emergency work shall be upon the person charged with violations of this subsection.

C.

No person shall store or park any vehicle in any yard, driveway, or street of the city in any residential district for a continuous period of more than seventy-two hours in any thirty-day period, except: (1) in a properly permitted and entirely enclosed space or carport, or (2) in a rear yard enclosed by not less than a five-foot solid fence or wall, or (3) in a front yard improved driveway but no closer than three feet of any garage door opening and no closer than five feet of any side yard property line, so long as screening by shrubs and/or trees is provided along the side yard property line sufficient to mitigate the visual impact of the vehicle on adjacent property.

D.

In any residential district, there shall be no parking, storage, or other similar uses within required front yard landscaped areas.

E.

For purpose of this section, the terms "yard," "driveway," and "street" do not include a ten feet area adjacent to and behind the curb, in areas improved with curbs, and adjacent to and behind the edge of the pavement, in areas with no curbs. Parking and storage of vehicles within the said ten feet area shall be prohibited.

(Ord. 642 §1, 2006; Ord. No. 696, §1, 4-27-2021)