5-2-4: PARKING OF VEHICLES IN RESIDENTIAL AREAS:
   A.   Prohibited: No person shall park upon the streets in any residential area within the city:
      1.   Any vehicle, either motorized or unmotorized, having a gross weight capacity in excess of twelve thousand (12,000) pounds' gross weight or a vehicle or combination of vehicles exceeding twenty two feet (22') in length; or
      2.   Any trailer regardless of type; or
      3.   Any motor home, mobile home, or recreational vehicle, either motorized or unmotorized for more than seventy two (72) hours; or
      4.   Any vehicle designed or used primarily as farm equipment, whether attended or unattended, upon the streets in any residential area within the city for a period in excess of two (2) hours.
   B.   Time Limitation: No person shall park any vehicle upon the streets in any residential area within the city limits for a continuous period in excess of seventy two (72) hours. In addition, at the expiration of the seventy two (72) hour time limit, it is required that the vehicle be removed from the block, or more than five hundred feet (500'), whichever is farther from the location at which it was previously parked in the residential zone.
   C.   Exceptions: The provisions of subsections A and B of this section shall not apply when a vehicle is parked:
      1.   For the purpose of loading or unloading passengers, materials or merchandise when such passengers, materials or merchandise are actually being loaded or unloaded.
      2.   For any purpose incident to any lawful construction project located within the immediate vicinity of such parked vehicle.
      3.   For any purpose incident to a lawful commercial or industrial operation located in any residential area and conducted under the conditional use permit and so long as the vehicle is parked within one hundred feet (100') of such commercial or industrial operation. (1974 Code § 7-204)