(A) Parking of trucks and trailers; exceptions. No person shall park, cause to be parked, or allow to be parked upon property owned or under the control of that person, or in the streets, alleys, or parkways of the city, any trailers having a length greater than 30 feet measured from the hitch to the rear of the trailer, tractor trailers, tow trucks, trucks having a box cabinet, a platform, a rack, a lifting device, a ladder or bucket or aerial device, a refrigerated box, a utility bed, or having any other equipment for the purpose of carrying goods other than personal effects of passengers or performing any work of a commercial nature. The provisions of this section shall not apply to:
(1) Public safety vehicles.
(2) Agricultural or industrial zoning districts.
(3) Private property, whereon construction is under way, for which a current and valid building permit has been issued by the city as to those vehicles actively engaged in the construction.
(4) Those persons performing lawful and authorized work upon the premises where the vehicle is parked.
(5) Personal motor vehicles in residential neighborhoods outside of enclosed carports and garages.
(6) Any vehicle that is parked entirely inside a garage or is parked in a carport, where no part of the vehicle extends outside the roofline of the carport.
(B) Temporary parking. Nothing herein is to prohibit the reasonable parking and use of any vehicle or equipment at a location while performing lawful and authorized work, public or private, at the location, including:
(1) Tradesman performing service work or making deliveries of merchandise.
(2) Public utility service work.
(3) Temporary parking for the purpose of and while actually loading; or unloading of a vehicle in preparation for or upon return from the use of that vehicle; providing, however, that any vehicle so parked shall be kept in the driveway where possible.
(C) Permitted nonresidential uses. Permitted nonresidential uses may utilize and park on their premises such commercial or other vehicles as may be necessary and customary for those uses, but this provision shall not be construed to permit the parking or storage of school buses for private or parochial schools.
(D) Non-accessory commercial vehicles. Commercial vehicles, other than those accessory to a permitted use, shall not be parked or stored in any property located in a B-1, B-2, or B-3 District. A lot occupied as a service station may have stored thereon not over three non-accessory commercial vehicles, bearing a valid state commercial vehicle license, or which would require such a license plate if licensed in the state, except commercial vehicles which would require a state non-GW license.
(Ord. 2021-02, adopted 3-17-21; sought to be reconsidered, Commission passed 4-21-2021)