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ORDINANCE NO. 4768
ORDINANCE OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PALO
ALTO AMENDING PALO ALTO MUNICIPAL CODE
SECTION 18.88.160 PERTAINING TO VEHICLE
EQUIPMENT REPAIR AND STORAGE
The Council of the City of Palo Alto does ORDAIN as
SECTION 1. Legislative Findings.
declares as follows:
The Council finds and
A. The public interest requires that periodic
revision of the municipal code is necessary in order to make
editorial changes for clarification and to make revisions that
are consistent with current practice and public policy.
B. Palo Alto Municipal Code Section 18.88.160
pertaining to vehicle equipment repair and storage requires
revision in order to be consistent with current practice and
public policy.
SECTION 2. Section 18.88.160 of the Palo Alto Municipal
Code is hereby amended to read as follows:
18.88.160 Vehicle and Equipment Repair and Storage.
Except as otherwise provided, parking is allowed in all
residential districts and on all sites in any other district
used for residential occupancy:
(a) No person shall service, repair, assemble,
disassemble, wreck, modify, restore, or otherwise work on any
vehicle, motor vehicle, camper, camp trailer, trailer, trailer
coach, motorcycle, motor-driven cycle, house car, boat, or
similar conveyance except when conducted wi thin a garage or
accessory building, or during the hours of 8: 00 a .m. and 9: 00
p.m. when conducted in an area screened from view from the
street and adjoining lots by a legally located fence, wall, or
equivalent screening. Notwithstanding the foregoing, this
section shall not be construed to prohibit occasional minor
maintenance such as changing spark plugs, oil, belts and hoses.
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(b) No person shall store, place or park any of the
conveyances designated in subsection (a), or any part thereof,
which is disabled, unlicensed, unregistered, inoperative, or
from which an essential or legally required operating part is
removed, including an unmounted camper, camp trailer, trailer,
trailer coach and similar nonmotorized conveyance, or any other
structure or device exceeding .46 cubic meters (sixteen cubic
feet) in volume to be carried upon or in any such conveyance, or
any equipment, machinery, or similar material unless conducted
wi thin a garage or accessory bui lding , or in an area screened
from view from the street and adjoining lots by a legally
located fence, wall, or equivalent screening.
(c) No person shall service, repair, assemble,
disassemble, wreck, modify, restore, or otherwise work on, or
store, place, and park any of the conveyances designated in this
section (excluding [1] passenger vehicles other than house cars,
and [2] "pickup" motor trucks on which no equipment other than a
camper is mounted), whether disabled or fully operative, for an
aggregate period of over seventy-two hours during any continuous
period of ninety-six hours in any open areas on a lot only in
locations where an accessory building or principal building of
equivalent height or bulk would be permitted by the provisions
of this title.
(d) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsections (a)
and (b), emergency repairs and short-term or temporary parking
of any conveyance listed in subsection (a), when owned by a
person residing on the lot, may be conducted for an aggregate
period of up to seventy-two hours in any continuous period of
ninety-six hours exclusive of the screening requirements.
(e) For the purpose of this section, references to
types of conveyances shall have the same meanings as defined in
the Vehicle Code of the state of California, where such
definitions are available.
(f) Chapter 18.94 shall not be applicable to this
section.
(g) Subject to securing a permit therefor from the
building official and otherwise complying with applicable law,
the use of a recreational vehicle, as defined in this title, may
be permitted for sleeping purposes only for a period not to
exceed thirty consecutive days in any calendar year for not more
than two nonpaying guests of the occupant of a single-family
dwelling in accord with all applicable regulations governing
parking and storage of vehicles.
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(h) Except in the OS (open space) and AC
(agricultural conservation) districts, no person shall store,
place, or park any of the conveyances designated in this
section, whether disabled or fully operative, in any areas
visible from a public street unless it is parked or stored upon
either permeable or impermeable paving surface.
(i) No person shall store, place, or park any of the
conveyances designated in this section within the thirty-five
foot triangle of property at the intersection of streets
improved for vehicular traffic.
(j) No person shall store, place, or park any of the
conveyances designated in this section in a manner that they
cover more than 40 percent of any required front yard.
(k) Violation of this section is a misdemeanor,
punishable as provided in this code. Each day of violation
constitutes a separate offense and may be separately punished.
SECTION 2. The City Attorney shall report to the
Council approximately six months and one year after the
effective date of this ordinance in order to allow Council to
assess further the propriety of misdemeanor penalties.
SECTION 3. The Council finds that this is not a project
under the California Environmental Quality Act and, therefore no
environment impact assessment is necessary.
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SECTION 4. This ordinance shall be effective on the
thirty-rst day after the date of its adoption.
INTRODUCED: October 15, 2002
PASSED: November 12, 2002
AYES: BURCH, FREEMAN, KISHIMOTO, KLEINBERG, LYTLE, MORTON,
MOSSAR, OJAKIAN
NOES:
ABSENT: BEECHAM
ABSTENTIONS:
ATTEST:
Iirn2UJ 4f~ City Clerk Mayor
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
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