§ 78-24. Parking of motor vehicles on private residential property.

(a)

Definitions. The following words, terms and phrases, when used in this section, shall have the meanings ascribed to them in this subsection, except where the context clearly indicates a different meaning:

Driveway shall mean that part of the passage located on private property that provides vehicular ingress and egress to a property fronting on a public street.

Motor vehicle shall include, without limitation, any automobile, van, truck, pickup, trailer, motorcycle, tractor, travel trailer, camper, motor home, tent trailer, boat, boat trailer, snowmobile, snowmobile trailer, camping trailer and all other motor vehicles of any kind.

Person shall mean every natural person, firm, copartnership, association, corporation, or organization of any kind.

Village means the Village of South Chicago Heights, Illinois.

(b)

Motor vehicle parking.

(1)

No motor vehicle may be parked upon premises zoned as or employed for residential use unless within a garage or upon a driveway. No more than one trailer, mobile home, travel trailer, camper, tent trailer, boat, boat trailer, snowmobile trailer, camping trailer or similar vehicle shall be parked on a driveway, and no such vehicle shall be parked on any driveway between the front building line of the residence and the roadway. No such vehicle parked on a residential lot shall exceed 24 feet in length. Any such vehicle with an interior enclosed space shall be locked or otherwise secured so as to prevent children or unauthorized persons from entering the vehicle. This restriction on trailers, mobile homes, travel trailers, campers, boats, boat trailers, snowmobile trailers, camping trailers or similar vehicles shall not apply to any residential lot greater than one acre.

(2)

No parking will be allowed upon any unimproved surface. As used in this section, the term "unimproved surface" includes, but is not limited to grass and dirt surfaces.

(c)

Commercial parking prohibited . Nothing contained in this section shall be deemed or construed to allow the use of property situated in a residential zone for any commercial parking purpose, and it shall be unlawful for any person to use property in a residential zone for parking purposes except in connection with, or as an accessory use to, the use of such property for residential purposes or other permitted uses.

(d)

Location of off-street parking spaces . Required off-street parking spaces may not be located between the front property line and the setback line established by the zoning ordinance.

(e)

Surfacing of off-street parking areas . Every off-street parking area on residential property, including parking spaces and driveway areas, shall be surfaced with an asphaltic or Portland cement binder pavement so as to provide a durable and dustless surface, shall be so graded and drained as to dispose of all surface water accumulated within the area.

(f)

Other ordinances .

(1)

Nothing in this section shall be interpreted to repeal any off-street parking regulation imposed pursuant to the zoning or vehicle code.

(2)

It is the intention of the village board that each separate provision of this section shall be deemed independent of all other provisions herein, and it is further the intention of the village board that if any provisions of this section be declared invalid or unconstitutional, all other provisions hereof shall remain valid and enforceable.

(g)

Penalty . Any person, firm or corporation violating any of the provisions of this section shall be subject to a penalty as set forth in section 1-8 for each offense, and a separate offense shall be deemed committed on each day during or on which a violation occurs or continues.

(Ord. No. 2000-1, § 1, 2-7-2000; Ord. No. 2009-20, § 1, 10-19-2009)