10-1314 3.10-0 Parking in Residential Districts Amendments

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emergency situations, and that exceed the maximum four square feet of copy sign area requirement, have sign copy area on the front and/or rear of the vehicle, or have reflective copy area, may be parked on residential property and shall be exempted from the requirements of this Section related to sign copy. The vehicle may also have emergency type attachments such as lights, sirens, and nudge bars. The subject vehicle may not exceed any of the other criteria provided in ULDR Section 3-10.9 A. C. Recreational eauipment. Recreational equipment includes recreational vehicles (RV); motor homes; boats; trailers designed to carry recreational equipment; all-terrain vehicles (ATV's); campers; pickups with a mounted camper; and similar equipment; motorized or not, for the resident's individual and personal use and licensed to the property owner/resident where it is located. 1. Approved parking locations for recreational equipment. a. Single-family and two-family residential district parking (R-8, R-9, R-12.5, R-2F, RMH-8, and detached residential in a PRD) shall be in any of the following locations: 1) Garage 2) Carport 3) Screened side yard. Only one side yard may be utilized for business related vehicles or recreational equipment parking. 4) Screened rear yard b. Multi-family residential district parking. Parking in multi-family residential districts (RMF-13, RMF-20, PMX-L, PMX-H, RMHP, and PRD) shall be regulated as follows: 1) Three to 24 dwelling units. Parking of recreational equipment on site is prohibited. 2) Twenty-five dwelling units or more: i) Recreational equipment shall be parked only in areas specifically designated for such parking purposes. The management company and/or homeowners' association are encouraged to actively enforce the requirements of any lease or restrictive covenants on the common areas that relate to recreational equipment parking. ii) A minimum of one space per 25 units shall be provided for the purpose of parking and storing recreational equipment. Any fraction of 25 shall require spaces rounded up to the next whole number. 3) The recreational equipment storage area shall be at a distance as remote as possible from surrounding residential districts or uses and from the dwelling units within the complex. 4) The recreational equipment storage area shall be a paved surface consistent with the rest of the parking area within the development, and shall provide ample ingress and egress and space for easy maneuverability for the types of vehicles and equipment using the area. 2. Additional requirements for recreational equipment. a. At no time shall recreational equipment be used as a residence while stored or parked on residential property. b. Recreational equipment may be parked in the driveway or designated parking area for a maximum period of 24 hours for the sole purpose of loading, unloading, or cleaning. c. If the recreational equipment cannot be parked in the locations provided in Section 3-10.9.C, the recreational equipment shall be removed from the residential district. d. Storage or long-term parking of recreational equipment within any street orright-of-way is prohibited. e. Only one recreational vehicle/motor home is permitted at a single family residence. D. General Requirements applied to prohibited vehicles, permitted vehicles and recreational equipment (Sketch A). 1. Business related and recreational equipment parking is limited to one vehicle in a side yard. 2. Screening requirements. a. Screening is defined as visual shielding or obscuring of a vehicle or equipment by a solid opaque fence or wall or healthy landscape material. The height of the screen material should be sufficient to obscure the vehicle from the adjacent property up to eight (8) feet in height. Ordinance 10-1314 Parking Page 4