The following regulations shall apply to all automobile repair shops, automobile sales, tire sales and services, towing and wrecking service businesses or combination thereof:
A. Open storage of junked or inoperable motor vehicles, auto parts or similar materials shall not be permitted. Tires may be temporarily stored for no longer than thirty (30) days in the side or rear yard and shall be neatly stacked at all times in an organized manner using the lacing techniques. Up to sixty (60) tires may be stored in the front yard provided the tires are also neatly stacked using the lacing technique. Tires in the front yard in excess of sixty (60) shall be enclosed in approved screening.
B. Junked or inoperable motor vehicles, auto parts or similar materials may be stored within an enclosed structure which visually conceals such objects or stored on a site that is the subject of an approved screening plan, as defined herein and approved by the planning and development director.
C. In order to maintain safety for pedestrian and vehicle traffic, vehicles associated with automobile repair shops, automobile sales, tire sales and services, towing and wrecking service businesses may not be parked, displayed, stored or repaired within four (4) feet of the curb or the edge of the road if no curb exists.
D. Junked or inoperable motor vehicles shall not be stored in the customer or employee parking spaces required per the off-street parking requirements set out in division (2).
E. All service, sales, storage or similar activities shall be conducted entirely on the premises.
F. All major repair work, if any, shall be conducted within a building capable of being completely closed.
G. Certain businesses claiming to be auto repair shops, automobile sales, tire sales and services or towing and wrecking service businesses that do not meet the definitions in Sec. 10-1.1 may be deemed gasoline service or filling stations and, therefore, subject to the regulations governing gasoline service or filling stations.
H. Certain businesses claiming to be automobile repair shops, automobile sales, tire sales and services, and towing and wrecking service businesses that do not meet the definitions in Sec. 10-1.1 shall be deemed junk yards and, therefore, subject to the regulations governing junk yards.
I. The provisions contained in chapter 9, article III of the Marion code of ordinances concerning abandoned, nuisance or junked motor vehicles continues to apply. Automobile repair shops and automobile sales businesses, tire sales and services and towing and wrecking service businesses must obtain a permit from the zoning office.
J. All automobile repair shops and automobile sales businesses, tire sales and services and towing and wrecking service businesses within the city limits of Marion not in compliance with this section within six (6) months after the adoption of the ordinance adopting or amending this section, shall be in violation.
(Ord. No. O-21-06-15-5, §1, 6-15-21)