§ 246-1. Parking and/or storage of vehicles and equipment.

A. 

Recreational vehicle and equipment defined.

RECREATIONAL VEHICLE AND/OR EQUIPMENT

Trucks having three or more axles or having a gross weight in excess of 8,000 pounds, commercial vehicles over 19 feet in length, buses (herein defined as a motor vehicle designed for carrying more than 10 passengers), recreational vehicles, boats (whether mounted on a trailer or not), motor homes, truck campers, travel trailers, boat trailers, tent trailers, camping trailers, motorized dwellings, fifth wheels, mobile homes, house trailers, trailers, utility trailers, semitrailers, horse trailers, airplane gliders, off-highway motor vehicles, snowmobiles, sand buggies, dune buggies, all-terrain vehicles, personal watercraft, tractors, implements or husbandry, golf carts, go-carts, or any other major recreational, commercial or agricultural vehicle or equipment.

B. 

Parking and/or storage prohibited. No person or property owner shall allow, on a single residential property, the parking or storage of more than two recreational vehicles and/or equipment, plus two motor vehicles or motorcycles, as defined by Min. Stat. § 168.002. The combined total number of vehicles shall not exceed four, and the following conditions and restrictions shall apply to those vehicles:

(1) 

Location of vehicles or equipment:

(a) 

The vehicles shall be parked on a driveway; or

(b) 

The vehicles or equipment may be located within a side or rear yard if in compliance with setback requirements applicable to accessory structures and sight-screened from abutting properties and rights-of-way by solid board fencing or sight-obscuring landscaping at least six feet in height; or

(c) 

If there is no reasonable access to a rear or side yard, the vehicles or equipment shall not exceed four feet in height if located in the front yard, provided they are not visible from the public right-of-way or adjacent properties; and

(2) 

All vehicles or equipment shall be licensed (if licensing is required by state authority for use) and operable; and

(3) 

The parking surface for the vehicles or equipment shall be an improved surface such as pavement, asphalt or sufficient gravel to support the weight of the vehicle.

C. 

Exceptions. The restrictions in this section shall not apply to vehicles in excess of the numbers allowed in Subsection B above if:

(1) 

Storage within a garage. The vehicles are stored within a vented garage, or within a carport, which is totally sight-screened from abutting properties by solid board fencing or sight-obscuring landscaping at least six feet in height.

(2) 

Short-term parking. The parking of motor vehicles or motorcycles is for periods of less than 48 hours.

Amended 2-9-2016