(a) For the purposes of this section, the following definitions shall apply:
(1) “Corner lot” means a residential lot located at the intersection of two streets.
(2) “Driveway” means a private, continuous driving surface providing ingress and egress for vehicles from a garage or carport to an adjacent street, alley or other improved public way, which may also serve as an off-street parking area.
(3) “Front yard” means the area extending across the full width of the lot between the front lot line and the front building wall.
(4) “Improved surface” means a continuous area used for the movement or parking of vehicles that is constructed of concrete, asphalt, brick, pavers or other equivalent materials, or gravel or crushed stone.
(5) “Rear yard” means the area extending across the full width of the lot between the rear lot line and the rear building wall.
(7) “Side yard” means the area that extends the width between the front and rear yards of the lot between the interior side lot line and the side building wall.
(8) “Street yard” The area of a lot which lies between the property line adjacent to street or right-of-way and the building wall, and as such building wall line extends from the outward corners of the building, parallel to the street.
(9) “Vehicle” means any and every motorized or non-motorized device in, upon or by which a person, persons, or property is or may be transported, drawn or moved upon a street, highway, waterway or airway and shall include but is not limited to any automobile, bus, truck, tractor, motor house, farm machinery, motorcycle, scooter, moped, all-terrain vehicle, boat, boat trailer, aircraft, golf cart, go-cart, trailer, fifth-wheel trailer, camper, camper shell, wheeled towing frame, semi-tractor, semi-tractor trailer, truck bed mounted on a chassis, dumpster, mobile home, and recreational vehicle. This definition does not include nonmotorized bicycles, small engine lawnmowers and devices of similar scale.
(b) It shall be unlawful for the owner, occupant or person in charge of any residential lot or the owner of a vehicle to park or to permit the parking of a vehicle on an unimproved surface, unimproved driveway, or unimproved parking area in the front yard, street yard, side yard or rear yard of any residential lot.
(c) Exceptions.
(1) A vehicle parked on an unimproved surface if site construction, building improvements, or landscaping activities require parking of said vehicle on said unimproved surface. The vehicle shall be removed from the unimproved surface within 72 hours of the completion of the portion of the project requiring said parking.
(2) Vehicles may be parked on any unimproved surface at a residential lot during officially-declared winter storm warnings so as to allow for the plowing of streets. Vehicles must be removed from residential lots within twenty-four hours of the storm warning being lifted.
(Ord. 5330. Passed 3-9-22.)