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The revised ordinance establishes ceitain performance standards for keeping a large vehicle (in excess <br />of 14,000 lbs GVW) as follows; <br />a. Minimum lot size S acres. ^ <br />b. Property owner must be vehicle owner or operator. \ <br />c. Vehicle must be set back 50'from property lines. <br />d. Vehicle must not be visible from neighboring properties and public street, vcfeclauve screening <br />is preferred. <br />e. Maintenance of vehicle shall occur within an enclosed building. <br />t The vehicle shall not constitute a nuisance at any time. <br />g. In shared driveway situation. City must have signed agreement of all drivew ay users. At Icait <br />two of the above-noted examples, besides Timm/Hagcn. arc 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 impacu 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 ihc property owner to own/opcratc 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 form of <br />conunercial storage. <br />- The 50' setback is a minimum separation distance that may reduce the visual/noise/odor impacts of a <br />large vehicle being stored on a site. It matches foe 50' principal structure setback for the 5-acre zone. <br />The requirement for screening to hide foe vehicle from 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 auy person to nMiauin a pnblic nnlsaace by Us act or faDurc to <br />perform a Icfal dney. For pnrposes of tUs section, a p'lbfic nnisnnee shall be defined as <br />any of the followlog: <br />(1) Maintainlag or permittiDg a condition which uorcasonnbly annoySt Injures or <br />endangers Ihc safety, hcaltb, morab, comfort or repose of any considerable <br />Dnmbcr of members of the public; <br />(2) latcrfcriag with, obttructiag or rcnderlog dangerous for passage any street, <br />pnblic right-of-way or waters nied by the pnbbc; or