§ 72.06. Restriction on parking and use of portable storage units, recreational camping vehicles, and trailers.

(A)

Definitions. For the purposes of this section, the term:

(1)

"Recreational camping vehicle" shall mean a recreational vehicle-type unit primarily designed as temporary living quarters for recreational, camping, or travel use, which either has its own motor power or is mounted on or drawn by another vehicle, including but not limited to those recreational vehicles identified in F.S. §§ 320.01(b)1—8.

(2)

"Trailer" shall mean any vehicle without motor power required to display a state license plate to operate upon a public street and designed to be coupled to or drawn by a motor vehicle, other than a vehicle defined in subsection (A)(1) above.

(3)

"Portable storage unit" shall mean any fully or partially enclosed structure which may be used for the storage of furniture, equipment or materials of any sort or description and which unit is, or is intended to be, mounted permanently or temporarily upon a trailer, including, by way of illustration but not limitation, those structures referred to as "pods" or "storage pods".

(4)

"Principal structure" shall mean the largest structure by volume occupying an identified lot without regard to overhangs, steps, porches or appurtenances to, of, or upon that structure.

(5)

"Side yard plane" shall mean, with respect to any side yard on any property, a line that runs parallel to the street setback line from the nearest front corner of the principal structure on such property to the nearest side line.

(B)

Public parking restrictions. It shall be unlawful for any person to park, place, or locate any recreational camping vehicle or trailer, for more than nine hours within any 24-hour period on any of the following:

(1)

Public streets.

(2)

Public or municipal parking lots.

(3)

Public or municipal rights-of-way.

(4)

Private parking facilities which are open to the public generally or to any particular segment thereof.

(C)

Private parking restrictions. It shall be unlawful for any person to park, place, or locate, or for the owner of the lot, tract, or parcel to allow to park, place, or locate any recreational camping vehicle, portable storage unit, or trailer on any lot, tract, or parcel of land within the town for more than five days in any 30-day period, except as follows:

(1)

Entirely within a carport, garage, or other building.

(2)

In a permitted mobile home park.

(3)

In a parking area of an existing motel or hotel.

(4)

In a parking area of a multifamily project.

(5)

Trailers will be allowed to be parked in rear yards or in side yards of a single-family parcel provided such trailer is located behind the applicable side yard plane on a single-family parcel and is screened from public view or adjacent properties with a six-foot fence, wall, gate or vegetation with 80 percent opacity. For purposes of this subsection 72.06(C)(5), "public view" shall not include any view from an alley.

(D)

Not withstanding any other provision of this section, no person shall use any recreational camping vehicle within the town for sleeping accommodations, to cook food therein, to serve any food cooked therein, or to connect such vehicles to any source of electrical power or potable water, except when it is located in a permitted mobile home park.

('71 Code, § 14-3; Ord. 73-5, passed 4-18-73; Ord. 2013-03, passed 2-3-14)

Editor's note

Section 5 of Ord. 2013-03 states the ordinance and proposed amendments shall take effect 180 days from the date of the second reading in accordance with law and the Charter of the Town of Longboat Key.

Cross reference

Penalty, § 72.11