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This following words, when used in this chapter shall have the following meanings, unless otherwise clearly apparent from the context of the ordinance:
COMMERCIAL EQUIPMENT. Any construction equipment or large equipment used primarily in the course of conducting a trade or business.
COMMERCIAL VEHICLE. Includes mobile structure trailers, pole trailers, semitrailers, and trucks; however, motor home recreational vehicles, recreational trailers, noncommercial buses and school buses shall be excluded.
CONSTRUCTION EQUIPMENT. Bulldozers, front-end loaders, power shovels, and other heavy construction equipment, or trailers designed for the transportation of such equipment.
MOBILE STRUCTURE TRAILER. A trailer that has a roof and walls and is at least ten (10) feet wide and which may be used off-road for commercial purposes.
OWNER. Any person in whose name the legal title is registered, titled, or in the event of a lease or conditional sales agreement, the lessee or person with the right of purchase and immediate right of possession.
POLE TRAILER. A vehicle without mode of power designed to be drawn by another vehicle and attached to the towing vehicle by means of a reach of pole, or by being boomed or otherwise secured to the towing vehicle, for transporting long or irregularly shaped loads such as poles, beams, trees, pallets, pipes, or structural members capable generally of staying themselves as beams between the supporting connections.
RESIDENTIAL DISTRICT. Any one-family residential, two-family residential, multiple-family residential or residential mobile home park or residential trailer park as defined and delineated in the Zoning Ordinance and Maps of the City of Flint.
SEMITRAILER. A trailer other than a pole trailer so constructed that a substantial part of its weight rests upon or is carried by a truck.
SINGLE-FAMILY RESIDENTIAL AREA. Any one-family residential district as defined and delineated in the Zoning Ordinance and Zoning Maps of the City of Flint.
TRUCK. Any single motor vehicle with a gross vehicle weight rating of twenty-six thousand (26,000) pounds or more.
(Ord. 3388, passed 11-23-1998)
(a) Except as provided in Subparagraph (C), no person shall park or store any commercial vehicle, commercial equipment, construction equipment, mobile structures, or pole trailers upon any public property located in any zoning district, including but not limited to public streets, stub streets, rights-of- way, sidewalks, and planting areas between sidewalks and curbs.
(b) The parking of commercial vehicles, commercial equipment, construction equipment, mobile structures or pole trailers, in any residential district shall be limited to the use of such articles in the performance of a service to the adjacent property for a reasonable period of the time necessary to complete such service.
(Ord. 3388, passed 11-23-1998)
After receiving one written warning, the owner of the commercial vehicle, commercial equipment, construction equipment, mobile structures or pole trailers sought to be stored or parked in violation of this article and the owner of the property upon which the articles are being kept (unless it is public property) shall each be responsible for compliance with the terms of this section/chapter. In any proceeding for violation of any parking or storage provision of this article, the person to whom the item is registered, as determined from the registration plate displayed on said item, shall be presumed in evidence to be the owner of such item. For purposes of determining the ownership of real property, it shall be presumed that the person whose name appears on the most recent tax assessment roll of the City of Flint is the owner of the property.
(Ord. 3388, passed 11-23-1998)
The requirement of this chapter may be modified or varied by the Zoning Board of Appeals of the City of Flint provided evidence is presented establishing that because of topography or other physical conditions of the property not caused by the applicant, enforcement of the provisions hereunder would create the most extreme hardship.
(Ord. 3388, passed 11-23-1998)
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