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The revised ordinance establishes certain performance standards for keeping a large vehicle (in excess <br />of 14,000 lbs GVW) as follows; <br />a. Minimum lot size 5 acres. ^ ^ ^ ^ A-c. <br />b. <br />c. <br />d. <br />is <br />e. <br />f. <br />g- <br />Property owner must be vehicle owner or operator <br />Vehicle must be set back 50' from property lines. <br />Vehicle must not be visible from neighboring properties and public street; vegetative screening <br />preferred. <br />Maintenance of vehicle shall occur within an enclosed building. <br />The vehicle shall not constitute a nuisance at any time. <br />In shared driveway situation, City must have signed agreement of all driveway users. At least <br />two of the above-noted examples, b.:sides Timm/Hagen, are shared driveway <br />situations. <br />Following is a brief description and justification for these standards: <br />- The minimum lot size restriction was established because the impacts of large vehicles are minimized, <br />and the ability to reduce those impacts is heightened, with larger properties. Our 2-acre neighborhoods <br />should not be subject to large vehicle impacts. <br />. Requiring the property owner to own/operate the vehicle ensures that the extent of commercial <br />activity is probably going to be limited to a home occupation type use and not to some higher fonn of <br />commercial storage. <br />- The 50' setback is a minimum separation distance that may reduce tlie visual/noir.e/odor impacts of a <br />large vehicle being stored on a site. It matches the 50' principal structure setback for the 5-acre zone. <br />The requirement for screening to hide the veliicle fi-ora view from neighboring properties and roads is an <br />attempt to maintain the residential character of neighborhoods. <br />- Large vehicle maintenance outdoors can be noisy and disruptive, probably much more so than car <br />repair. Requiring it to occur in an enclosed building helps to minimize the disruption due to sporadic <br />banging, etc. <br />- Public nuisances are dealt with in Section 70-4 as follows: <br />(a) It is unlawful for any person to maintain a public nuisance by his act or failure to <br />perform a legal duty. For purposes of this section, a public nuisance shall be defined as <br />any of the following: <br />(1) Maintaining or permittiDg a condition which unreasonably annoys^ injures or <br />endangers the safety, health, morals, comfort or repose of any considerable <br />number of members of the public; <br />(2) Interfering with, obstructing or rendering dangerous for passage any street, <br />pubUc right-of-way or waters used by the public; or <br />MiiiillbidliidteiiHL.