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Sec. 78-1577. - Exterior storage in R districts.
<br />In all R districts, it is the responsibility of the owner of any property, improved or unimproved, to
<br />maintain the outdoor areas; including courtyards and the like, of the property and adjacent rights-of-way
<br />in a manner that complies with the following requirements. All recreational vehicles, mobile homes,
<br />camping trailers, motor homes, pickup coaches, travel trailers, special mobile equipment, and utility
<br />trailers shall meet the requirements of this Code. Additionally, all exterior storage must comply with
<br />subdivision (6) of this section.
<br />(1) Definitions:
<br />a. Blight means a deteriorated condition, something that impairs or destroys.
<br />b. Junk means any cast-off, damaged, discarded, junked, obsolete, salvage, scrapped,
<br />unusable, worn-out or wrecked object, thing or material composed in whole or in part of
<br />asphalt, brick, carbon, cement, plastic, or other synthetic substance, fiber, glass, metal,
<br />paper, plaster, plaster of paris, rubber, terra cotta, wool, cotton, cloth, canvas, organic matter
<br />or other substance, regardless of perceived market value or requiring reconditioning in order
<br />to be used for its original purpose.
<br />c. Recreational vehicle. Mobile home and recreational vehicle shall mean and include the
<br />following definitions, and shall not include any manufactured housing unit bearing a State of
<br />Minnesota manufactured housing seal or certificate, for uses including but not limited to
<br />those listed below:
<br />1. Camping trailer means a folding structure, mounted on wheels and designed for travel,
<br />recreation and vacation uses, also called a pop-up camper.
<br />2. Motor home means a portable, temporary dwelling to be used for travel, recreation and
<br />vacation, constructed as an integral part of a self-propelled vehicle.
<br />3. Pickup camper means a structure designed to be mounted on a truck chassis for use
<br />as a temporary dwelling for travel, recreation and vacation.
<br />4. Travel trailer means a vehicular, portable structure built on a chassis, designed to be
<br />used as a temporary dwelling for travel, recreational and vacation uses, permanently
<br />identified as a travel trailer by the manufacturer of the trailer.
<br />d. Special mobile equipment means every vehicle not designed or used primarily for the
<br />transportation of persons or property and only incidentally operated or moved over a
<br />highway, including but not limited to: ditch digging equipment, moving dollies, pump hoists
<br />and other well-drilling equipment, street sweeping vehicles, and other machinery such as
<br />asphalt spreaders, bituminous mixers, bucket loaders, tractors other than truck-tractors,
<br />ditchers, leveling graders, finishing machines, motor graders, road rollers, scarifiers, earth-
<br />moving equipment. The term does not include travel trailers, dump trucks, truck-mounted
<br />transit mixers, truck-mounted feed grinders, or other motor vehicles designed for the
<br />transportation of persons or property to which machinery has been attached.
<br />e. Utility trailer means any motorless vehicle, other than a boat trailer or personal watercraft
<br />trailer, designed for carrying of snowmobiles, motorcycles, all terrain vehicles, or property on
<br />its own structure and for being drawn by a motor vehicle but shall not include boat trailers, a
<br />trailer drawn by a truck-tractor semitrailer combination, or an auxiliary axle on a motor vehicle
<br />which carries a portion of the weight of the motor vehicle to which it is attached.
<br />(2) [Parking regulated.] Parking of recreational vehicles, mobile homes and utility trailers shall be
<br />regulated as follows:
<br />a. It is unlawful for any person to park a mobile home or recreational vehicle upon public
<br />property for human habitation
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