Madison Park

Section 12.218 Commerical vehicle parking in residential areas

Section 12.218. Commercial vehicle parking in residential areas.

(1)

All residential districts.

(a)

One light or medium commercial vehicle may be parked overnight at a residence or customary home occupation.

(b)

A medium commercial vehicle must be parked on a clearly delineated driveway of the residence. Medium commercial vehicles may not be parked overnight on public streets.

(c)

Large commercial vehicles are prohibited from parking in all residential districts, except as permitted in subsection 12.218(4).

(2)

Multi-family developments.

(a)

Duplexes, triplexes, and quadraplexes that are located in residential zoning districts shall be subject to the provisions of subsection 1.

(b)

Reserved.

(3)

Mixed-use districts.

(a)

Light and medium commercial vehicles are permitted without screening in true mixed-use developments where residential and nonresidential uses are vertically integrated in the same building. (For the purposes of this section, mixed-use districts are the following districts: RE-3, MX-2, MX-3, NS, MUDD, UMUD, UR-2, UR-3, UR-C AND CC.)

(b)

In mixed-use districts where the residential uses are separated from the nonresidential uses, light and medium commercial vehicles shall only be permitted in accordance with the standards of subsections (1) and (2) above.

(4)

This section shall not be construed as to prevent the temporary parking of emergency vehicles, delivery trucks, moving vans and similar vehicles used for delivery of goods and services nor the parking of commercial vehicles at an active job site or staging area.

(5)

All pre-existing commercial vehicles parked in residential districts shall comply with Section 12.218 within six (6) months of the effective date of this ordinance amendment.

(Ord. No. 2402, § 1, 10-20-2003; Ord. No. 2919, § 1A, 3-21-2005; Ord. No. 4658-Z, § 1, 5-23-2011)