(A) Definition. The words RECREATIONAL VEHICLE shall mean any of the following:
(1) BOAT TRAILER. A vehicle without its own power, designed to transport a recreational watercraft and which is eligible to be licensed or registered and insured for highway use. A recreational watercraft, when mounted upon a boat trailer, and its towing vehicle, when parked or stored shall be considered one unit.
(2) CAMPING TRAILER. A folding structure mounted on wheels and designed to be towed and used for travel, recreation or vacation use.
(3) MOTOR HOME. A portable, temporary dwelling to be used for travel, recreation or vacation and constructed as an integral part of a self-propelled vehicle.
(4) PICKUP COACH. A structure designed to be mounted on a truck chassis for use as a temporary dwelling for travel, recreation or vacation use.
(5) TRAVEL TRAILER. A vehicular, portable structure built on a chassis designed to be used as a temporary dwelling for travel, recreational or vacation use.
(6) UTILITY TRAILER. A vehicle, without its own power, designed or used for the transportation of automobiles, motorcycles, snowmobiles, ice fishing houses, horse or other livestock or all other types of motor vehicles, goods or materials, and which trailer is eligible to be licensed or registered and insured for highway use. Snowmobiles when mounted upon a snowmobile trailer, and its towing vehicle, when parked or stored, shall be considered one unit.
(B) Minimum requirements.
(1) General. All recreational vehicles and including, but not limited to, boats and other vehicles that are stored on trailers when parked, shall meet the minimum requirements of this section.
(2) Residential districts.
(a) All recreational vehicles shall be required to be parked off of any public right-of-way and no part of the recreational camping vehicle shall extend into the public right-of-way.
(b) Side-yard parking may be permitted where only one side yard is used for recreational vehicle parking and where a vehicle is parked between the side lot line and the principal building the vehicle shall be no closer than three feet to the side line.
(c) Front-yard parking may be permitted where the vehicle is not parked between the principal building and the front lot line.
(d) In Cluster Development and Planned Residential Developments, there shall be provided a separate area to be used for parking, indoors or outdoors, of the occupants' recreational vehicles. Such storage shall have the parking spaces marked and be suitably landscaped so as to be harmonious with the rest of the development.
(e) In Zero Lot Line Developments, parking in the side yard shall be permitted only in an area that is a minimum of 15 feet from the side lot line and the parking area shall be suitably landscaped so as to be harmonious with the rest of the development.
(Ord. 459, passed 7-24-97; Am. Ord. passed 1-23-08; Am. Ord. passed 10-22-13)