(A) Required off-street parking space in commercial, industrial, or institutional districts, including those within a planned development district, shall not be utilized for open storage of goods, overnight parking of vehicles, storage of vehicles or for vehicles which are inoperable, or for lease, rent or sale, except where otherwise permitted.
(B) Notwithstanding the foregoing, the occupant of a property zoned for commercial, industrial or institutional uses may store up to three passenger motor vehicles or one non-passenger motor vehicle on the property, provided each vehicle is: (1) owned or leased by the occupant; (2) regularly used in connection with and as an integral component of the operation of the principal use on the property; (3) is not larger than the footprint of a standard passenger vehicle parking stall, except the one permitted non-passenger motor vehicle shall not be larger than the aggregate footprint of the length of two contiguous parking stalls; and (4) parked and stored in a designated parking spaces as approved by the city. In no case shall the number of permitted stored vehicles under this division exceed three for any given parcel of record. This exemption does not permit the outdoor storage of equipment, trailers, recreational vehicles, recreational camping vehicles, motorcycles or other similar vehicles, semi-tractors, or vehicles for sale.
(‘81 Code, § A1-61) (Ord. 291, passed 4-21-83; Am. Ord. 443, passed 5-18-89; Am. Ord. 455, passed 7-27-89; Am. Ord. 479, passed 4-12-90; Am. Ord. 738, passed 11-13-03; Am. Ord. 1089, passed 6-10-21) Penalty, see § 155.999