(a) As used in this chapter, “recreational equipment” means and includes the following:
(1) “Motor Home” means a portable dwelling designed and constructed as an integral part of a self-propelled vehicle. Also known as a “motorized home”.
(2) “Trailer” means a vehicular portable structure, mounted on wheels, of such a size or weight as not to require special highway movement permits when drawn by a stock passenger automobile or similar towing unit and primarily designed and constructed to be towed. “Camping trailer” means a vehicular portable structure mounted on wheels, constructed with collapsible partial side walls of fabric, plastic or other material for folding compactly while being drawn by another vehicle and when unfolded at a site or location provides temporary living quarters; and, whose primary design is for recreation, camping or travel use.
(3) “Pick-up camper” means a structure designed primarily to be mounted on a car, pick-up or truck chassis and with sufficient equipment to render it suitable for temporary living quarters for recreation, camping or travel use.
(4) “Boats” and “boat trailers” includes boats, floats and rafts, plus the normal equipment to transport the same on the highway.
(5) Snowmobiles, ATV’s, and other similar motor-propelled vehicles, used primarily as recreational equipment, mounted on wheels, belt-tracks and/or runners, and the necessary equipment to transport the same on the highway.
(b) Any owner of camping and recreational equipment, and trailers as defined above, may park or store such equipment in a First Residential District subject to the following conditions:
(1) The camping and recreational equipment and trailers does not exceed twenty-four feet in total length.
(2) When the camping and recreational equipment and trailers is parked or stored outside of a building, it shall be parked or stored on a paved surface in compliance with Chapter 913. All recreation equipment and trailers shall be stored to the rear of the front of the building line of the lot. The setback requirement in the rear yard shall be a minimum of five feet;
(3) Recreational equipment and trailers may be parked anywhere on the premises, on a paved surface, for loading or unloading purposes, for a period of not more than seventy-two hours;
(4) All recreational equipment and trailers must be maintained in good repair and carry a current year’s license and/or registration;
(5) Not more than one of the above-mentioned items of recreational equipment may be stored outside on a lot in a Residential District.
(6) Recreational equipment parked and stored shall not have fixed connections to electricity, water, gas, sanitary sewer or septic tank facilities and at no time shall this equipment to be used for living or housekeeping purposes.
Exception: Such equipment may be used by special permission when the permanent dwelling has been rendered uninhabitable due to fire or natural disaster.
(Ord. 19-2020. Passed 10-13-20.)