(a) Front Yard Parking Prohibited. No person shall park or leave unattended, or cause to leave parked or unattended, a vehicle, motorcycle, boat, recreational vehicle, or similar device wholly or partially within a front yard of any residential property, regardless of type, unless such vehicle, motorcycle, boat, recreational vehicle or similar device is wholly within a driveway or parking area. (Ord. 2018-40. Passed 7-9-18.)
(b) Definitions.
(1) “Driveway” means an improved area used as the principal means of ingress and egress, not exceeding twenty-four feet in width and being of equal width, into a property from the traveled portion of the public or private road right of way, provided that such driveway shall not occupy over forty percent (40%) of the total front yard of the lot.
(2) “Front yard” means the area between any portion of a residential structure facing a street and the street right-of-way line. In the case of any parcel of land which borders on more than one street, “front yard” means those yards which extend across the lot along all streets which border such parcel and being the areas between the street right-of-way lines and the nearest portion of any building or structure, excluding fences, existing on such lot.
(3) “Improved area” means a driveway and/or parking area constructed of asphalt, concrete, gravel, brick or similar materials for the purpose of accommodating vehicular parking, flow or access to the property.
(4) “Parking area” means any improved area not meeting the definition of a driveway and being used to park or store automobiles, motorcycles, boats, recreational vehicles or similar devices.
(c) All vehicles parked in driveways or parking areas shall bear the current registration or license plates as required by the Ohio Revised Code and subject to those limitations as found in Section 1319.08.
(d) Whoever violates any of the provisions of this section shall, for each offense, be fined not more than two hundred fifty dollars ($250.00). A separate offense shall be deemed committed upon each day during which, or on which, the violation occurs or continues. (Ord. 2006-17. Passed 3-27-06.)