HomeMy WebLinkAbout140 - 10/01/2002 - DECLARING THE PARKING OF VEHICLES IN FRONT YARDS TO BE A NUISANCE AND PROHIBITING THE SAME ORDINANCE NO. 140, 2002
OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT COLLINS
DECLARING THE PARKING OF VEHICLES IN FRONT YARDS TO
BE A NUISANCE AND PROHIBITING THE SAME
WHEREAS,Section 3.2.2(D)(3)(b)of the Land Use Code contains provisions regulating the
parking of vehicles in front yards of lots on which single-family or two-family dwellings exist; and
WHEREAS, the parking of vehicles in front and side yards that abut public streets presents
a traffic safety hazard because no orderly ingress and egress to a public street is provided and
because such parking practice promotes the tracking of mud and dirt onto the public street; and
WHEREAS, such parking practice also presents a disorderly and unappealing aesthetic
appearance to the neighborhood; and
WHEREAS,for these reasons,the City Council has determined that the parking of vehicles
in front or side yards that abut a public street is a general public nuisance and should be prohibited
under the nuisance provisions contained in Chapter 20 of the City Code; and
WHEREAS,once such activities are prohibited as a general public nuisance,the regulations
contained in the Land Use Code pertaining thereto should be repealed.
NOW, THEREFORE,BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT
COLLINS as follows:
Section 1. That Chapter 20 of the Code of the City of Fort Collins is hereby amended by the
addition of a new Article VII and by renumbering of all subsequent articles accordingly, to read as
follows:
ARTICLE VII. PARKING.
Sec. 20-105. Nuisance declared and prohibited.
No person shall park,or knowingly permit to be parked,any motor vehicle other
than a motorcycle or moped in the front yard or side yard of a lot on which exists a
single-family or two-family dwelling for any purpose except the washing of such
vehicle. The parking of a motor vehicle in violation of this Section is hereby
declared to constitute a nuisance and danger to the public health, safety and welfare
and is prohibited, unless such motor vehicle is parked on an improved area having
a surface of asphalt, concrete, rock, gravel or other similar inorganic material, and
such improved area has a permanent border. This prohibition shall apply to side
yards only if such side yards abut a public street other than an alley. For purposes of
this Section, the terms "yard," "front yard" and "side yard" shall have the meaning
ascribed to them in § 20-41 of the Code. No area of a yard governed by this Section
that is improved after October 10, 2002, to allow for the parking of motor vehicles
shall constitute more than forty percent (40%) of any front or side yard unless said
improved area abuts only a collector or arterial street upon which parking is
prohibited.
Section 2. That Section 3.2.2(D)(3)(b) of the Land Use Code is hereby repealed and all
subsequent subsections are relettered accordingly.
Introduced and considered favorably on first reading and ordered published this 17th day of
September, A.D. 2002, and to be presented for final passage on the 1 st day of October, A.D. 2002.
Mayor
ATTEST:
City Clerk
Passed and adopted on final reading this 1 st day of October, A.D. 2002.
Mayor
ATTEST:
City Clerk