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HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrd #256 - 3rd Ser/Amending the Code of Ordinance Pertaining to Boat and Boat Trailer Parking in Residential Zoning Districts ORDINANCE NO. 256, THIRD SERIES CITY OF ORONO HENNEPIN COUNTY, MINNESOTA AN ORDINANCE AMENDING THE CODE OF ORDINANCES PERTAINING TO BOAT AND BOAT TRAILER PARKING IN RESIDENTIAL ZONING DISTRICTS THE CITY COUNCIL OF ORONO ORDAINS: SECTION 1. Sec. 78-1577 shall be amended by adding and deleting text in sub- paragraphs (1) and (4)to read as follows: Sec. 78-1577. - Exterior storage in R districts. In all R districts, it is the responsibility of the owner of any property, improved or unimproved,to maintain the outdoor areas; including courtyards and the like, of the property and adjacent rights-of-way in a manner that complies with the following requirements. All recreational vehicles, mobile homes, camping trailers, motor homes,pickup coaches,travel trailers, special mobile equipment, and utility trailers shall meet the requirements of this Code. Additionally, all exterior storage must comply with subdivision(6) of this section. (1) Definitions: a. Blight means a deteriorated condition, something that impairs or destroys. b. Junk means any cast-off, damaged, discarded,junked, obsolete, salvage, scrapped, unusable, worn-out or wrecked object, thing or material composed in whole or in part of asphalt, brick, carbon, cement, plastic, or other synthetic substance, fiber, glass, metal, paper, plaster, plaster of paris, rubber, terra cotta, wool, cotton, cloth, canvas, organic matter or other substance, regardless of perceived market value or requiring reconditioning in order to be used for its original purpose. c. Recreational vehicle. Mobile home and recreational vehicle shall mean and include the following definitions, and shall not include any manufactured housing unit bearing a State of Minnesota manufactured housing seal or certificate, for uses including but not limited to those listed below: 1. Camping trailer means a folding structure,mounted on wheels and designed for travel,recreation and vacation uses, also called a pop-up camper. 2. Motor home means a portable, temporary dwelling to be used for travel, recreation and vacation, constructed as an integral part of a self-propelled vehicle. 3. Pickup camper means a structure designed to be mounted on a truck chassis for use as a temporary dwelling for travel, recreation and vacation. 4. Travel trailer means a vehicular,portable structure built on a chassis, designed to be used as a temporary dwelling for travel, recreational and vacation uses, permanently identified as a travel trailer by the manufacturer of the trailer. d. Special mobile equipment means every vehicle not designed or used primarily for the transportation of persons or property and only incidentally operated or moved over a highway, including but not limited to: ditch digging equipment, moving dollies,pump hoists and other well-drilling equipment, street sweeping vehicles,and other machinery such as asphalt spreaders, bituminous mixers, bucket loaders, tractors other than truck-tractors, ditchers, leveling graders, finishing machines, motor graders, road rollers, scarifiers, earth-moving equipment. The term does not include travel trailers, dump trucks, truck-mounted transit mixers, truck-mounted feed grinders, or other motor vehicles designed for the transportation of persons or property to which machinery has been attached. e. Utility trailer means any motorless vehicle, other than a boat trailer or personal watercraft trailer, designed for carrying of snowmobiles, motorcycles, all terrain vehicles,or property on its own structure and for being drawn by a motor vehicle but shall not include boat trailers, a trailer drawn by a truck-tractor semitrailer combination, or an auxiliary axle on a motor vehicle which carries a portion of the weight of the motor vehicle to which it is attached. f. Boat, for the purposes of this article, means any water craft required to be registered or licensed by the state of Minnesota, but excluding canoes, kayaks, paddle boards, or pedal boats. (4) [Storage of boats and boat trailers.] Boats, unoccupied boat trailers, and boats on trailers shall be subject to the following storage requirements when not stored for commercial purposes: a. Licensing, operability and restorations. All boats stored outside on a residential property shall be currently licensed to the owner or occupant of the property. All boats stored on a property shall be in operable condition. For the purposes of this section, Inoperable condition shall mean a boat lacking parts essential to operation, including but not limited to motor, propeller, battery; or having the interior, including the driver's position,used for storage in such a manner that no person can operate the vehicle. b. Principal residence required. No boat shall be stored on a property or on a group of contiguous commonly owned properties that does not contain a principle residence structure. c. Required setbacks. Boats,including trailered boats,and unoccupied boat trailers may be stored in any yard,provided that a five feet setback is provided. d. Screening. Screening is not required for outside boat storage when in conformance with this section. If boats are shrink wrapped, white is the preferred color but is not mandatory. Sections 2,3. 5 and 6 purposefully not changed SECTION 4.EFFECTIVE DATE: This ordinance shall take effect immediately upon its passage and publication. ADOPTED this /#14 day of/11/ty, 2021 on a vote of Yayes and nays by the City Council of Orono, Minnesota. ATTEST: / 0 Anna Carlson, City Clerk Dennis Walsh, Mayor Ordinance published in The Laker Pioneer newspaper the week of/1/ IV, 2021.