(a) When Required. In connection with every building or part thereof, except dwellings, hereafter erected on the same lot with such building in any district and having a gross floor area of 10,000 square feet or more, which is to be occupied by manufacturing, storage, warehouse, goods display, retail store, cleaning, or other uses similarly requiring receipt or distribution by vehicles of materials or merchandise, there shall be provided and maintained, at least one off-street loading space plus one additional such loading space for each 20,000 square feet or major fraction thereof of gross floor area so used in excess of 20,000 square feet and shall be constructed so as not to impede the flow of traffic.
(b) Dimensions. Each off-street loading space shall be not less than ten feet in width, forty feet in length and fourteen feet in height.
(c) Mixed Occupancies and Uses Not Specified. In the case of mixed uses, the total requirements for off-street loading facilities shall be the sum of the various uses computed separately. Where a use is not specifically mentioned, the requirements for a use so mentioned, and to which such use is similar, shall apply. Off-street loading facilities for one use shall not be considered as providing requirements for any other use, except as specified in subsection (d) hereof for collective use.
(d) Collective Use. Nothing in this article shall be construed to prevent provisions of off-street loading facilities for two or more buildings or uses, provided that the total of such off- street loading spaces shall not be less than seventy-five percent of the sum of the requirements for the various uses computed separately.
(e) Location of Mobile Homes, House Trailer and Other Trailers Outside Camps; Parking of Recreation Vehicles.
(1) Except as provided in this article, no person shall park any mobile home, house trailer, other trailer or recreation vehicle on any street, alley or highway, or other public place within the City.
(2) Emergency stopping or parking of mobile homes, house trailers or other trailers is permitted on any street, alley or highway for not longer than twenty-four hours subject to any other and further prohibitions, regulations or limitations imposed by the traffic and parking regulations or ordinances for that street, alley or highway.
(3) Subject to traffic and parking regulations and ordinances, recreation vehicles may be parked for not more than seventy-two hours within any one-week period on the streets, alleys and highways, or other public places, within the City, under the following conditions:
A. Loading and unloading which shall include preparation for travel and return from travel.
B. Visiting in the homes of residents of the City.
C. Indulging in commerce with persons, firms and corporations of the City.
D. Emergency repairs.
(4) No person shall occupy any mobile home, house trailer or recreation vehicle which is situated outside any approved mobile home park. The parking of only one unoccupied recreation vehicle of a particular use, and not more than two recreation vehicles of different uses is permitted upon the premises of any resident of the City provided no living quarters shall be maintained or any business practiced in the trailer while such trailer is so parked or stored. When such vehicles are parked or stored on the owner's premises, they shall be parked as far from the street line as the design of the premises will allow.
(5) Nothing contained in this subsection shall be construed to apply to mobile homes, house trailers or recreation vehicles parked on premises within the City for the purpose of use as a construction office during construction, remodeling or demolition of improvements on the premises, or parked on the business premises of the user thereof, or to trailers used for the transportation of goods, wares and merchandise in commerce, while being loaded or unloaded or while parked on the business premises of the owner thereof, or upon the business premises kept by persons, firms or corporations doing business with the owner thereof, or while being parked within legal loading and unloading zones within the City.
(6) All other types of trailers not defined in this section may be kept only in a garage or in the rear lot of any premises in the City.
(Ord. A-2530. Passed 2-27-73.)