All off-street parking and loading areas which serve nonresidential uses shall conform with the following:
(a) Off-street parking and loading facilities may be developed on any required side, front, or rear yard, not closer than fifteen feet to any cartway, as an accessory to a commercial or industrial activity upon the same premises.
(b) Parking and loading facilities shall be surfaced with a durable bituminous or concrete paving material within one year, and shall be properly graded and drained to dispose of all surface water.
(c) They shall be arranged and marked for the orderly and safe movement, loading, parking and storage of vehicles, and shall be adequately illuminated with luminaires which shall not be located more than ten feet above ground level, if designed for use by more than three cars after dusk.
(d) Exit and entrance driveways or access points shall be at least twenty feet wide, and shall not exceed forty feet in width, and wherever practical shall not occupy the full width of the streets, alleys or other rights of way from which they derive their access, but shall be so designed as to provide maximum safety for other adjoining or nearby uses.
(e) No ingress or egress shall be permitted within thirty feet of an intersection measured at the property line.
(f) No commercial or industrial truck loading, storage or parking activities are allowed in any residential district. (12-17-79)
(g) (1) No person shall stand or park a vehicle:
A. Upon a public or private street, any commercial parking lot open to the public, or any other public property, for the purpose of displaying such vehicle thereon for sale, hire or rental; provided, however, there shall be an exception for properly licensed dealers on property set aside for that specific purpose only.
B. Upon any public or private street, any parking lot open to the public, or any other public property, for the purpose of displaying advertising.
C. Upon any public or private street, any parking lot open to the public, or any other public property, for the purpose of selling merchandise from the motor vehicle, except in a duly established marketplace or when so authorized or licensed under the applicable provisions of the City Code.
D. Nothing contained in the present subsection shall prevent any person from displaying a motor vehicle for sale on such person’s privately owned property or such person’s yard, so long as all other applicable regulations with the State of West Virginia and the City of Princeton are complied with.
(Passed 2-8-99.)
(2) No person shall park a vehicle at any place or upon any property, where an official sign or marking prohibits parking.
(Passed 2-8-99.)
(3) A. For the purpose of this section, the term “trailer” shall mean and include any vehicle or device, with or without motive power, designed for carrying persons, property, or merchandise of any type and for being drawn by a motor vehicle. The term shall include, but not be limited to, semi-tractors, buses or similar motor vehicles; or a dwelling place, living abode, or sleeping place (either permanently or temporarily) and equipped for use as a conveyance on streets and highways.
B. No person shall park a trailer, except in compliance with the directions of a police officer, in any of the following places:
1. On any sidewalk;
2. On any public street or public right of way;
3. On any commercial parking lot open to the public, or any other public property where specifically prohibited by sign or marking.
(Passed 2-8-99.)