(A) (1) No person, firm or corporation shall construct, operate or maintain a parking lot in any block in the city where a majority of the houses abutting on both sides of the street in the block are used exclusively for residence purposes, or residence and retail store purposes, without having secured the written consent of the owners of a majority of the frontage abutting on the street on both sides within the block.
(2) For the purpose of this chapter, the following definition shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
BLOCK. The portion of the street between the two intersections with other public streets nearest the specified location on each side.
(B) (1) If, on either or both sides of the location, there is no intersection within 300 feet of the specified location, the block shall be considered as terminating at a point 300 feet from the center.
(2) For the purpose of this chapter, the following definition shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
STREET. Highways, as have been dedicated either by common law or by statutory dedication, as public streets and are actually in use as such and STREET shall not be construed to include merely service highways which are commonly known as alleys.
(3) Consents, once given and filed, shall not be withdrawn. Consents need not be renewed for the continuous conduct of the same business, whether by the same proprietor or not. It shall be unlawful to forge any name to a petition granting consents, or to falsely represent that the names thereon have been properly placed thereon if such is not the fact. These frontage consent requirements shall not be construed as amending or changing the building ordinances or any other ordinance relative to the conduct of a business.
(Ord. 694, passed 5-17-1955) Penalty, see § 116.99