PZ - UDC Edits
UDC Section Proposed amendment Proposed language Notes/reason
11-1A-1 Add definition of DISMANTLED VEHICLE: Any vehicle, or parts Code Enforcement had a case regarding a
“dismantled vehicle” thereof, which: violation of UDC section 11-4-3-37 (specific use
1. Cannot be safely operated under its own standards for major/minor vehicle repair). The
power; violation (among other things) was that
2. Is missing any one of the following: foot dismantled vehicles were not properly
brakes, hand brakes, headlights, taillights, screened. The lack of definition of “dismantled
horn, muffler, rearview mirrors, windshield vehicle” presented a bar to conviction.
wipers, or adequate fenders;
3. Has been declared salvage, or has been
physically damaged to the extent that the cost
of parts and labor minus the salvage value
would make it uneconomical to repair or
rebuild such vehicle; or
Is otherwise in a wrecked, inoperative, or
dilapidated condition.
11-1A-1 Update definition of Vehicle wrecking or junk yard. Any area, lot, To intent is that where two qualifying vehicles are
“vehicle wrecking or land, or parcel where two (2) or more vehicles in the yard, it is a wrecking yard. But as written, if
junk yard” without current registration or two (2) or more there is one unregistered vehicle and one
inoperable or dismantled vehicles that are not in dismantled vehicle, it is by definition not a
operating condition (or parts thereof) are wrecking yard, because the definition envisions
stored, dumped, dismantled, partially two unregistered vehicles or two dismantled
dismantled or wrecked; or as defined by Idaho vehicles.
Code § 40-111, the use of a site that is
maintained, operated, or used for storing,
keeping, buying, or selling junk, or for the
maintenance or operation of an automobile
graveyard, garbage dumps and sanitary fills. The
following uses are excluded from this definition.
agricultural equipment on a farm as herein
defined and vehicles stored or dismantled within
a completely enclosed structure.
11-3C-Update provision 2. Types of vehicles; location of parking. Only 1. UDC defines “required yard” and “street
4(A)(2) regarding vehicles that automobiles and motorcycles displaying license yard,” but does not define “required street
can be parked in the plates assigned to the vehicle with current yard.” Remove the word “required” to avoid
street yard of single-registration may be parked in the required confusion.
family dwellings street yard. All other vehicles, including, but not 2. Allowing one RV, boat, or trailer to be stored
limited to, vehicles without current registration, in the street yard will improve visibility and
vehicles without license plates, recreational safety by moving them off the roadways.
vehicles, personal recreational items, boats, 3. Neighborhoods that prefer no RV/boat/
trailers and/or other vehicles shall only be trailer storage on residential properties can
parked in the rear or side yard and shall be privately enforce CC&Rs.
screened by a solid fence, six (6) feet in height. 4. Code’s enforcement of this provision results
in the greatest number of citizen complaints
2. Types of vehicles; location of parking. regarding dissatisfaction with the City and
a. Street yard. The following vehicles may be with Code Enforcement, especially in
parked in the street yard: neighborhoods without CC&Rs. Several of
(1) Automobiles and motorcycles our older neighborhoods were built prior to
displaying license plates assigned to the the parking standard; at many homes the City
vehicle with current registration; and has even issued permits for electrical
(2) One (1) other vehicle, which may hookups to their RV pad in the street yard.
include a recreational vehicle or trailer (11-3C-4(A)(2) establishes a standard, not a
displaying license plates assigned to the land use, so nonconforming provisions do not
vehicle with current registration, or one apply.) These citizens are frustrated when the
(1) boat, off-highway vehicle, or City then requires them to remove their RV
specialty off-highway vehicle. from the pad. This standard is especially
Vehicles with a gross vehicle weight rating frustrating for citizens where there is a
of 16,000 pounds or more shall not be “neighborhood norm” of parking RVs, boats,
parked in the street yard. Vehicles parked and trailers in street yards. Code typically
in the street yard shall not encroach upon sees a domino effect of finger pointing when
any sidewalk or public right-of-way. responding to a complaint in such
neighborhoods. As Code responds to each
b. Side yard, unscreened. If no recreational successive complaint, moving throughout
vehicle, personal recreational item, boat, entire neighborhoods, people again feel like
or trailer is parked in the street yard, one they are being “harassed.”
(1) of the following vehicles may be parked
in a side yard that is not screened by a solid
fence: a recreational vehicle, personal
recreational item, boat, or trailer.
c. Rear or side yard. Except as otherwise
allowed by this section, the following
vehicles shall be parked in the rear or side
yard and shall be screened by a solid
fence, six (6) feet in height:
(1) Vehicles other than automobiles and
motorcycles;
(2) Vehicles without current registration;
and/or
(3) Vehicles without license plates
assigned to the vehicle.
11-3C-4(B) Update provision B. Improvements. Enforcement of standards for parking area
regarding surface of 1. Except as allowed in subsection (B)(2) of this surface in rear yard, behind fence/screen, is
off-street parking areas section, all off Off street parking areas in the impractical. Requiring concrete or asphalt
at single-family street yard and driveways into and through a parking surface in front yard adequately serves
dwellings parking area in the street yard shall be improved the public purpose of this provision (dust
with a compacted gravel base, not less than four suppression, aesthetic).
(4) inches thick, surfaced with concrete or
asphaltic pavement. No person shall park, or
allow to be parked, an automobile or motorcycle
any vehicle in the required street yard on any
surface other than compacted gravel base, not
less than four (4) inches thick, surfaced with
concrete or asphaltic pavement.
2. Where the parking area is screened by a solid
fence, six (6) feet in height, the off street
parking areas and driveways shall be improved
with a dustless material, including, but not
limited to, vegetation, asphaltic pavement, rock,
concrete, pavers, bricks, or recycled asphalt
(asphalt grindings). Gravel is not a preferred
improvement material because it must be
chemically treated every three (3) months to
remain dustless. Such surface will only be
allowed at the discretion of the Director for
temporary or short-term parking.