(A) Use. The conduct of any activity in a Residential District that is not specifically enumerated as a permitted primary use or accessory use in that district, and which activity has not been legally established by a currently valid variance, special exception, or other approval grant.
(B) Development standards. Failure to comply with district development standards, including but not limited to landscaping, paving of parking areas, minimum parking space requirements, trash dumpster enclosure, fencing, or screening requirements.
(C) Approvals. The failure to comply with the terms, provisions or conditions of: a grant of variance or special exception; an approval of a development plan; or other approval grant authorized by this chapter.
(D) Large vehicles. No tractor, trailer, tractor-trailer combination, or vehicle (including but not limited to a tow truck, dump truck, flatbed truck, semi-trailer, and the like) equal to or in excess of 1-1/2 tons capacity, or which has a bed more than 8 feet long, may be parked upon any land or premises in any Residential District. However, the foregoing shall not apply to school buses used for the transportation of school children to and from school or to and from a school sponsored activity, between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. any day except Saturdays, Sundays, and legal holidays on designated snow routes of a sufficient width as determined by the town. Nothing in this section is intended to affect the already regulated parking on designated snow routes during a snow emergency, or other areas in which parking is regulated by duly authorized signs.
(E) Parking, storing, maintaining, or keeping of any recreational vehicle or recreational trailer in any Residential District. Notwithstanding any provision in this chapter to the contrary, no recreational vehicle or recreational trailer shall be parked, stored, maintained, or kept on any property in any Residential District unless in compliance with the following:
(1) Recreational vehicles or recreational trailers may be parked or stored:
(a) Inside an accessory building or garage; or
(b) Outside in such a manner that no part of any such recreational vehicle shall project into any:
1. Minimum front yard for a primary building;
2. Minimum side yard for a primary building; or
3. Minimum rear yard for an accessory building.
(2) Not more than a total of 2 recreational vehicles/recreational trailers shall be permitted to be parked or stored in the open on the same lot at any one time.
(3) Parked or stored recreational vehicles shall not be occupied or used for living, sleeping, or housekeeping purposes in any Residential District.
(F) Parking of vehicles; general.
(1) Notwithstanding anything in this chapter to the contrary, the parking of any motor vehicles of any size or nature for any period of time on a lot of record without a primary building also being located on the lot of record shall be a zoning violation.
(2) If a primary building exists on a lot of record, parking on the lot of record shall be accessory to the use of the primary building located on the lot of record.
(3) The prohibition against parking set forth above in this division (F) shall not apply to a “parking lot - accessory” authorized by the grant of a special exception.
(4) Notwithstanding anything in this chapter to the contrary, the parking of any vehicle within the required minimum front setback shall not be allowed unless the parking is on a legal, properly hard-surfaced driveway or parking space which has a durable and dust-free surface, as required by §§ 152.250 through 152.258.
(G) Parking of vehicles; family. In order to avoid congestion in the public ways, promote safety for vehicular and pedestrian traffic, and ensure that residential areas provide healthful surroundings for family life, no family, consisting of persons not related by blood, legal adoption or marriage, living and cooking together as a single housekeeping unit, shall consist of more persons who possess an automotive vehicle than the number of off-street parking spaces provided on-site in a garage, interior access drive, or driveway on the lot, plus the number of legal, on-street parking spaces located immediately adjacent to and on the same side of the street as the front lot line of the lot.
(Ord. 1221, § 3.11(e), passed 1-26-2010)