(a) Storage - Front Yard and Side Yard Abutting a Street.
(1) The entire front yard and side yard abutting a street shall be kept and maintained free and clear of all construction and automotive materials or parts, trash, refuse, debris, trash storage receptacles, inoperative motor vehicles, discarded or broken materials, appliances, furniture, patio furniture, equipment, basketball hoops, play equipment, and similar materials.
(2) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (a)(1) of this section, emergency or minor repairs of a motor vehicle owned by a person residing upon the lot or parcel may be conducted on an otherwise inoperative motor vehicle upon a paved driveway or paved parking area. However, that such emergency or minor repair shall be concluded within seventy-two hours of the commencement thereof.
(3) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsections (a)(1) and (2) of this section, a side yard abutting a street shall be treated the same as a rear yard, so long as the side yard abutting a street is screened by an approved wall or fence in a manner so the items set forth in subsection (a)(1) of this section are not visible from the abutting street.
(b) Storage - Side Yard not Abutting a Street.
(1) All storage of materials including, but not limited to, trash and trash receptacles, newspapers, maintenance tools, equipment, camper shells not mounted on motor vehicles, boats and trailers, but not including inoperative vehicles, appliances, furniture, play equipment, and similar materials within side yards shall be screened by approved walls, fences, and/or landscaping materials from view from abutting property, public and private streets, and public and private right-of-ways. Reasonable pedestrian access shall be provided for public safety purposes.
(2) Parking or storage of motor vehicles and/or trailers shall occur upon an approved driveway, or other allowed paved or surfaced area.
(3) All storage within the side yard shall be kept and maintained free of weeds, overgrown grass or plant material, debris, litter or any combination thereof.
(4) Any and all firewood stored on a single-family lot shall be cut to fireplace size, shall be neatly stacked and stored out of public view, and shall not exceed two cords in amount.
(c) Storage - Rear Yard.
(1) All storage of materials within rear yards shall be screened by approved walls, fences, and/or landscaping materials from view as seen from abutting property, public and private streets, and public and private right-of-ways. Storage of materials include, but not limited to, trash receptacles, newspapers, building and automotive materials, landscape maintenance tools, equipment or currently licensed boats and trailers, camper shells not mounted on operative motor vehicles. Inoperative motor vehicles shall not be stored in the rear yard.
(2) Unless a lower percentage is set forth in this title, any materials stored, kept, or maintained pursuant to subsection (c)(1) of this section shall not cover an area greater than twenty-five percent of the total square footage of the rear yard.
(3) All storage within the rear yard shall be kept and maintained free of weeds, overgrown grass or plant material, debris, litter or any combination of such materials.
(d) Storage - Garage and Carports. Storage of materials in a garage or unscreened storage of materials in a carport is prohibited if such storage restricts the parking of an operative motor vehicle in the required parking spaces. Storage of materials includes, but not limited to, trash, trash receptacles, newspapers, building and automotive materials, landscape maintenance tools, and equipment.
(e) Motor Vehicle Parking.
(1) Except as otherwise provided in this title, all parking of currently licensed and operative motor vehicles, currently licensed trailers, and boats on a single-family lot or parcel shall occur within a garage, or approved carport, or upon an approved driveway, or other allowed paved parking area within the front yard, or within the side yard or rear yard. If parked in a side yard, a pedestrian access way shall be maintained on one side yard.
(2) No motor vehicle or part thereof shall encroach onto the public right-of-way where a sidewalk is present.
(f) Solid Waste Containers.
(1) All residences located in any area in which collection is by the city or approved contractors shall have sufficient container capacity to accommodate their normal volume of solid waste between collections.
(2) All items too large to fit into containers, such as, but not limited to, appliances, furniture and mattresses, shall be disposed of by self-transport of such items to end-disposal facilities.
(3) All loose materials which normally fit into containers but which are excess as a result of special circumstances such as holidays shall be bundled and tied securely to prevent them from blowing or scattering and shall be placed beside the containers.
(4) Containers shall be kept covered at all times.
(5) Any container which does not conform to prescribed standards or which has defects likely to hamper collection or injure the person collecting the contents thereof or the public generally shall be replaced promptly by the owner or user of the container.
(6) Solid waste containers shall not remain at curbside or anywhere in the front yard for more than forty-eight hours.
(7) No resident shall deposit household solid waste in any receptacle maintained on a sidewalk or at any other location for disposal of litter by pedestrians.
(8) Removal of trash or other scavenging from private residential solid waste containers is prohibited.
(Ord. 612 Exhibit A (part), 2008).