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Planning board reviews draft residential parking rules; residents urge clearer enforcement and longer brief parking windows for RVs
Summary
Planning staff asked the Planning & Zoning Board for feedback on a draft that clarifies rules for storing trailers, boats and recreational vehicles in residential areas, including new definitions and whether storage should be confined to side or rear yards and to improved surfaces.
The Planning & Zoning Board held a policy discussion on proposed edits to the city's residential parking rules in Chapter 74 (traffic and vehicles) and Section 70‑482, focusing on definitions and where owners may store recreational vehicles, trailers and boats on residential property.
Planning staff described the draft as largely clarifying existing rules rather than creating new prohibitions: the proposal would add a clear definition of "automobile," tighten the RV definition to parallel state statute language, remove an unenforceable "houseguest" exception for watercraft storage, and move to require that long‑term storage of RVs and watercraft occur in side or rear yards rather than in front yards or within the required front yard setback. "This is just taking what already exists…
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