The Planning and Zoning Commission finds that the types of vehicles that are parked or stored, the location on a particular site of such parking or storage, and the condition of the vehicles, which are parked or stored have a direct effect on the health, safety and general welfare of the residents of the Village. The Planning and Zoning Commission finds that the improper or inappropriate storage or parking of vehicles can be unsafe, unsanitary and unsightly, and that such conditions constitute a blight on surrounding properties. The Planning and Zoning Commission further finds that in order to prevent such blight, stabilize the value of surrounding properties, and minimize threats to the public safety and general welfare of the residents of the Village, the Planning and Zoning Commission hereby deems it necessary to regulate the manner in which vehicles are parked and stored, the types of vehicles that are parked or stored, and the location of such parking or storage.
(a) Recreational Vehicles.
(1) Recreational vehicles that are affected. Any travel trailer or other vehicular portable structure designed to be used as a temporary occupancy for travel or recreational use. For example, any motor home, truck trailer, animal trailer, trailer used for transporting recreational vehicles, any type 3-4 wheeled sport racing vehicle, boat, boat trailer, raft, aircraft, dune buggy, snowmobile, jet ski, all-terrain vehicle and vehicle dollies are included.
(2) Recreation vehicles that are not affected. Motorized coaches and slide-in campers on pick up trucks which do not exceed seven feet in height or twenty feet in length. Camper shells on pickup trucks, pop-up campers and motorcycles.
Any recreational vehicle may be parked in a driveway for the sole and express purpose of loading and unloading, cleaning for a period not exceeding seventy-two hours in any seven consecutive day period.
(3) Repairs. No major mechanical overhaul or repairs shall be performed on recreational vehicles unless conducted behind the front (building) setback line.
(4) Setbacks.
A. No parking or storage of a recreational vehicle is permitted in the front (building) setback line.
B. A three foot side yard setback is required on a residential lot.
C. A five foot rear yard setback is required on a residential lot.
D. No parking or storage of a recreational vehicle shall be permitted in a side yard adjacent to a public street.
E. No recreational vehicle shall be permitted within any yard area on a corner lot, which will impede vision between a height of two and one-half feet and eight feet above the centerline grades of the intersecting streets within twenty feet of the street intersecting right- of-way lines.
Neither the recreational vehicle nor any attachments thereto, including hitches or other equipment may extend over the sidewalk or in any part of the right of way.
No recreational vehicle, which is in a state of visible disrepair, shall be parked or stored in a residential district.
No recreational vehicle may impede safe entry to or exit from any house and does not inhabit emergency access to and from any structure.
(5) Paved surface. Off-street parking areas, including driveways and service areas, are to be paved with a hard-surface of Portland cement concrete, asphalt concrete, clay or concrete pavers tightly laid over a compacted aggregate base or a pavement treatment equivalent to that described.
(6) Vehicles as living quarters. No vehicle, motor home, camper, pickup camper, recreational vehicle or similar item shall be used as living quarters within the Village. Occupancy of recreational vehicles is permitted on a public street, or on any lot, during an officially declared state of emergency.
(7) Variances.
A. Planning and Zoning Commission. All variances shall be decided by the Planning and Zoning Commission.
B. Variance Not Transferable; Exception. Each variance shall be limited and restricted to that stated person, vehicle and property location and may not be transferred to any other person, or be used for any other vehicle or property location; however, a variance may be transferred to another vehicle provided such vehicle is not longer, wider, taller, or older than the vehicle for which the variance was initially granted.
C. Revocation of Variance. Each variance granted may be revoked by the Planning and Zoning Commission for failure of the recipient to comply fully and continually with the stated conditions or for any violation of the provisions of this regulation.
(b) Commercial Vehicles. No commercial vehicle bearing a class designation other than A or B shall be parked or stored in a residential district.
A school bus is considered a Class A passenger vehicle.
The outdoor parking or storage of commercial vehicles, including truck tractors and semi-trailers, is prohibited in R-1, R-2, R-3 and R-5 residential districts, provided however, that this restriction shall not be deemed to prevent temporary location of any such vehicle in said districts when engaged in delivery, pickup or service to the premises where located.
(c) Abandoned/Inoperable Vehicle Regulations. Abandoned vehicles, inoperable or in a state of disrepair for more than seven days, are not permitted on public/private property. This includes vehicles in a state of major disrepair or one being stripped or dismantled. Major repair or vehicle bodywork on vehicles can be performed in enclosed spaces suitable for these purposes, but not outdoors.
It shall be unlawful to leave on any lot in the Village, any trailer, semi- trailer, truck, automobile or major parts thereof, which vehicle or parts thereof are not licensed by the State of Ohio for the current year.
(Ord. 22-089. Passed 12-5-22.)