The URL can be used to link to this page

Home My WebLink AboutItem 5.2 Recreational Vehicle Ordinance f 4Sb-,2_o AGENDA STATEMENT CITY COUNCIL MEETING DATE: March 10 , 1986 SUBJECT: PUBLIC HEARING Recreational Vehicle Ordinance EXHIBITS ATTACHED: A. Draft Ordinance RECOMMENDATION: ' 1. Open public hearing and hear Staff presentation 2 . Take testimony from public 3 . Question Staff and public 4 . Close public hearing and deliberate 5 . Waive second reading and adopt Ordinance FINANCIAL STATEMENT: None. DESCRIPTION: On February 24, 1986 , the City Council amended and introduced an Ordinance regarding recreational vehicles (RV' s ) boats, and similar items. The Ordinance would establish requirements for storing RV' s in the front, side and rear yards of residential properties. Only one RV could be stored in the yard area in front of the house. The number of RV' s stored in the rear and side yards and in the front driveway would be unlimited. Any RV stored in the front yard area would need to be validly licensed and operable. As the City Council directed, the Ordinance would take effect 90 days after adoption. If adopted on March 10, 1986 , the Ordinance would take effect on June 8, 1986. Staff recommends that the City Council waive the second reading and adopt the Ordinance. ----------------------------------------------------------------- ITEM NO. ♦ COPY TO: . PA 85-077 ORDINANCE NO. AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF DUBLIN AMENDING CERTAIN PROVISIONS OF CHAPTER 2 OF TITLE 8 OF THE DUBLIN ZONING ORDINANCE REGARDING RECREATIONAL VEHICLES (R. V. ORDINANCE) The City Council of the City of Dublin does ordain as follows: SECTION 1 AMENDMENTS: A. Section 8-21.2.2 is added to read as follows: "Section 8-21.2.2 HOUSE CAR. A 'house car' is a motor vehicle which was originally designed, or permanently altered, to be equipped for human habitation, or to which a camper has been permanently attached." B. Section 8-22.12.7 is added to read as follows: "Section 8-22.12.7 STORAGE. The term 'storage' or 'store' shall mean to place or keep an item on a lot for not less than seventy-two (72) consecutive hours." C. Section 8-22.51 is amended to read as follows: "Section 8-22.51 RECREATIONAL VEHICLE. 'Recreational vehicle' means a vehicle with or without motive power, designed for human habitation for recreational or emergency occupancy. The term 'recreational vehicle' includes, but is not limited to, camp cars, motor homes, travel trailers, tent trailers, pickup truck campers, and house cars. For the purposes of this section, references to types of conveyances shall have the same meanings as defined in the California State Vehicle Code, where such definitions are available." D. Section 8-23.2.1 is added to read as follows: "Section 8-23.2.1 VEHICLE. A 'vehicle' is a device by which any person or property may be propelled, moved, or drawn upon a highway, excepting a device moved by human power or used exclusively upon stationary rails or tracks." E. Section 8-60.33 is amended to read as follows: "Section 8-60.33 YARD REGULATIONS. In order to secure minimum basic provision for light, air, privacy, and safety from fire hazards, it is required that every building shall be upon a Building Site of dimensions such as to provide for the yards specified for the District in which the lot is located, and the following sections shall apply and control. Every such Yard shall be open and unobstructed from the ground upward, except as otherwise provided for Accessory Buildings in Sections 8-60.27, 8-60.31, and 8-60.32, for fences in Section 8-60.53 and for other buildings in Section 8-60.37 and for signs as regulated by Section 8-60.65 and Section 8-60.59(b). The diagram entitled "Areas On A Typical Residential Lot" is made a part of this Ordinance and the numerical designations of areas of the typical corner lot shall be used to define the areas for storage of recreational vehicles as hereafter set forth. A mobilehome, recreational vehicle, utility trailer, unmounted camper top, boat, car, truck or other vehicle may be stored in the rear yard (designation number 1), the area between the rear yard and the rear of the main building (designation number 2) and a sideyard (designation number 3) provided that there is at all times one unobstructed sideyard, and provided further, that the stored item (1) is screened from view from the street and adjoining lots by a six foot high fence, wall, hedge or equivalent screening, and (2) is provided with access and a curb cut in conformance with the Standard Plans of Alameda County as adopted and established by the City Engineer. -1- No Mobilehome, Recreational Vehicle, utility trailer, unmounted camper top, boat, car, truck, or other vehicle shall be parked or stored in the Front Yard (designation number 5), in the area between the Front Yard and the front of the Main Building (designation number 6) , or within twenty (20) feet of the corner common to a Corner Lot and a Key Lot in any R District except as follows: a) A Mobilehome, Recreational Vehicle, utility trailer, unmounted camper top, boat, car, truck, or other vehicle may be parked or stored in the driveway (designation number 5a) for an indefinite period of time, provided that it is at all times validly licensed and operable. b) Provided that the parking or storage (1) is on a concrete pad, and (2) is accessed by a curb cut in conformance with the Standard Plans of Alameda County as adopted and established by the City Engineer, a single Mobilehome, Recreational 'Vehicle, utility trailer, unmounted camper top, boat, car, truck, or other vehicle may be parked or stored in the front yard (designation numbers 5 and 5b) and in the area between the front yard and the front of the main building (designation number 6), provided that it is at all times validly .licensed and operable. c) At no time shall the stored item be located on a corner lot within thirty (30) feet of the intersection of the street lot lines or projection of such lines. d) At no time shall the stored or parked item encroach in, over, across or upon the sidewalk. No Mobilehome, Recreational Vehicle, utility trailer, unmounted camper top, boat, car, truck, or other vehicle parked or stored on a lot shall be occupied for living, sleeping, or any other purpose except as legally allowed in a bona-fide trailer park. No Mobilehome, Recreational Vehicle, utility trailer, unmounted camper top, boat, car, truck, or other vehicle parked upon any public right-of-way shall be occupied for living or sleeping purposes._ A Mobilehome, Recreational Vehicle, utility trailer, unmounted camper top, boat, car, truck, or other vehicle stored as herein provided shall be owned by the occupants of the premises upon which it is stored. F. Section 8-63.2 is amended to read as follows: "Section 8-63.2 PARKING SPACES: ACCESSIBILITY. These regulations are intended to provide off-street spaces for the parking of the automobiles of tenants of the premises and visitors in the cases of residential uses, and for clients, customers, employees and callers in the case of nonresidential uses. Off-street spaces are required to be kept accessible for these purposes continuously, and the use of any such required space or spaces, or of any driveway or maneuvering space necessary to provide access thereto for the storage of inoperable motor vehicles, structures, materials or goods of any kind shall constitute discontinuance thereof in violation of Section 8-63.1." SECTION 2 EFFECTIVE DATE AND POSTING OF ORDINANCE This Ordinance shall take effect and be in force ninety (90) days from and after the date of its passage. The City Clerk of the City of Dublin shall cause this Ordinance to be posted in at least three (3) public places in the City of Dublin in accordance with Section 36933 of the Government Code of the State of California. -2- PASSED AND ADOPTED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF DUBLIN on this 10th day ' of March, 1986, by the following votes: AYES: NOES: ABSENT: Mayor ATTEST: City Clerk -3- z AREAS ON A TYPICAL RESIDENTIAL LOT 1) Rear Yard 2) Area between Rear Yard- and rear of Main Building MAIN BUILDING , 3 ) Side Yard I 4) Area. between Side Yard LJ and adjacent side wall 5) Front Yard _ i a) Front Yard = driveway b) Front Yard = narrower of two areas along side of driveway 6) Area between Front Yard and front of Main Building ao � 5a -301 SIDEWALK SIDEWALK