CITY OF CASSELBERRY UNIFIED LAND DEVELOPMENT REGULATIONS Section 3-10.9. Parking of vehicles in residential districts. The parking of prohibited vehicles, permitted vehicles, and recreational equipment in residential districts shall be regulated as follows: A. Prohibited Vehicles. The following vehicles are prohibited from parking in all residential districts, including the right-of-way, unless the vehicle is parked in accordance with the criteria provided in this Section and the vehicle is in the process of making deliveries, or is actively engaged in service work. These requirements do not include recreational equipment. 1. Any vehicle greater than twenty- two (22) feet in length, including attachments. 2. Any vehicle greater than eight (8) feet in height, including attachments. 3. Vehicles and equipment, including but not limited to: farm, grading or industrial equipment; step vans; stakebed trucks; flatbed trucks; non-recreational utility trailers equal to or greater than twenty-five (25) feet in length, including hitches; dump trucks; trucks without a bed; buses; tractor cabs; tractor trailers; wreckers; hearses; tow dollies; vehicles with three or more axles; utility bed trucks; trucks of any size which have operating motorized cooling units; and trucks with scrolling signs. B. Permitted Use Vehicles. Vehicles that are permitted to be parked within the residential districts. 1. Personal vehicles. Any personal use motor vehicle that is less than or equal to twenty-two (22) feet in length or eight (8) feet in height, may have four (4) square feet or less of total sign copy area, not to exceed two square feet on either side of the vehicle, and shall park in the following locations: a. Garage b. Carport c. Driveway accessing the carport or garage. This includes that portion of a side yard that accesses a side-entry garage or carport. d. Front yard on a prepared parking area e. Parking of personal vehicles is permitted in the rear yard in a legally permitted attached or detached garage if a prepared parking area extends from the garage to the roadway. 2. Business related vehicles. Any motor vehicle that is used for business purposes that is less than or equal to twenty-two (22) feet in length or eight (8) feet in height and may also have either copy area or attachments. A maximum of one (1) business related vehicle is allowed on a residential site. a. Types of business related vehicles. 1) Vehicles with sign copy area. Any vehicle with commercial sign copy area greater than a total of four square feet, or that exceeds two square feet of sign copy area on any one side, or has sign copy area on the front or rear of the vehicle. 2) Vehicles with attachments or accessories. Any vehicle with attachments or accessories (racks and similar structures) designed to haul, store, or transport ladders, pipes, hoses, cord, scaffolding and the like. 3) Utility trailers that are less than twenty-five feet in length. b. Approved parking locations for business related vehicles. 1) Single family district parking a) Garage. b) Carport. c) Screened side yard. Only one side yard may be utilized for business related vehicles or recreational equipment parking. One side yard shall remain open and free of vehicles. d) Screened rear yard. 2) Multi-family district parking a) Individual parking locations provided on the approved site plan.
b) An approved parking lot/area that is screened from adjacent residential properties and the business related vehicle is permitted by the management company or a homeowner's or condo association. 3. Additional requirements for business related vehicles. a. Sign copy area. 1) Business related sign copy area/advertising is measured in the same manner as "sign area," as defined in Article XVI, Signs, of the Unified Land Development Regulations. 2) Sign copy may be reduced on a vehicle by the use of a one-piece, solid-colored magnetic cover of the same or similar color as the vehicle to enable front yard parking as provided in Section 3-10.9 B(1). 3) Reflective signage shall be viewable from the right of way. 4) Dealer and manufacturer added identification or lettering on a vehicle shall not be considered as commercial copy area. b. No more than one Business related vehicle may be parked on a residential lot other than a Business related vehicle that is providing an immediate service to the residence. c. Governmental emergency response vehicles. Sedan, pick-up, sport utility vehicles (SUV), and/or van type vehicles that are owned or operated by governmental entities that are used to respond to emergency situations, and that exceed the maximum four square feet of copy sign area requirement, have sign copy area on the front and/or rear of the vehicle, or have reflective copy area, may be parked on residential property and shall be exempted from the requirements of this Section related to sign copy. The vehicle may also have emergency type attachments such as lights, sirens, and nudge bars. The subject vehicle may not exceed any of the other criteria provided in ULDR Section 3-10.9 A. C. Recreational equipment. Recreational equipment includes recreational vehicles (RV); motor homes; boats; trailers designed to carry recreational equipment; all-terrain vehicles (ATV's); campers; pickups with a mounted camper; and similar equipment; motorized or not, for the resident's individual and personal use and licensed to the property owner/resident where it is located. 1. Approved parking locations for recreational equipment. a. Single-family and two-family residential district parking (R-8, R-9, R-12.5, R-2F, RMH-8, and detached residential in a PRD) shall be in any of the following locations: 1) Garage 2) Carport 3) Screened side yard. Only one side yard may be utilized for business related vehicles or recreational equipment parking. 4) Screened rear yard b. Multi-family residential district parking. Parking in multi-family residential districts (RMF-13, RMF-20, PMX-L, PMX-H, RMHP, and PRD) shall be regulated as follows: 1) Three to 24 dwelling units. Parking of recreational equipment on site is prohibited. 2) Twenty-five dwelling units or more: i) Recreational equipment shall be parked only in areas specifically designated for such parking purposes. The management company and/or homeowners' association are encouraged to actively enforce the requirements of any lease or restrictive covenants on the common areas that relate to recreational equipment parking. ii) A minimum of one space per 25 units shall be provided for the purpose of parking and storing recreational equipment. Any fraction of 25 shall require spaces rounded up to the next whole number. 3) The recreational equipment storage area shall be at a distance as remote as possible from surrounding residential districts or uses and from the dwelling units within the complex.
4) The recreational equipment storage area shall be a paved surface consistent with the rest of the parking area within the development, and shall provide ample ingress and egress and space for easy maneuverability for the types of vehicles and equipment using the area. 2. Additional requirements for recreational equipment. a. At no time shall recreational equipment be used as a residence while stored or parked on residential property. b. Recreational equipment may be parked in the driveway or designated parking area for a maximum period of 24 hours for the sole purpose of loading, unloading, or cleaning. c. If the recreational equipment cannot be parked in the locations provided in Section 3-10.9.C, the recreational equipment shall be removed from the residential district. d. Storage or long-term parking of recreational equipment within any street or right-of-way is prohibited. e. Only one recreational vehicle/motor home is permitted at a single family residence. D. General Requirements applied to permitted vehicles and recreational equipment (Sketch A). 1. Business related and recreational equipment parking is limited to one vehicle in a side yard. 2. Screening requirements. a. Screening is defined as visual shielding or obscuring of a vehicle or equipment by a solid opaque fence or wall or healthy landscape material. The height of the screen material should be sufficient to obscure the vehicle from the adjacent property up to eight (8) feet in height. (1) Business related vehicles. The height of the screen material shall be eight (8) feet in height. (2) Recreational equipment. The height of the screen material shall be between six and eight feet in height, regardless of the height of the equipment. Enforcement of this screening requirement shall become effective February 1, 2012. b. Screening shall be provided between adjacent properties, lakes, and other water bodies. c. Recreational and business-related vehicles stored in the side yard shall be screened at the front from the roadway by use of a fence, gate, or landscaping. d. Screen material shall run parallel or perpendicular to property lines to ensure a rectangular-like and orderly screen and to eliminate the potential of an unorganized/angular screen. 3. Lot requirements. a. Business related vehicles and recreational equipment shall be parked behind the front facade(s) of the principal structure. The intent is to eliminate the possibility of parking forward of any portion of the principal structure. b. Side yard parking shall be behind the rearmost front façade of the principal structure, on the side of the yard the vehicle or equipment is parked, as demonstrated by Sketch B. Sketch B c. Corner lots. A corner lot shall have one side yard, one back yard, and two front yards. The front yards are those yards that abut both streets. The maximum one-third front yard coverage shall be applied to only one front yard.
d. Through lots. Parking shall be allowed in the back rear yard, if substantially screened from adjacent lots. 4. Only one (1) personal vehicle with a temporary registration and temporary license plate is permitted per residential structure at any point in time. E. Prepared parking area. Parking shall only occur on a prepared parking area located in the front yard or within that portion of the side yard that provides access to a side entry garage or carport. Driveways and designated parking areas are designated parking areas. 1. Definitions. The following definitions apply to Section 3-10.9 of the ULDR. a. Circular driveway. A circular driveway is an access designed as a semi-circle with two aprons onto the right-of-way. b. Driveway. A path designed for vehicles that connect a residential unit or garage/carport with a public or private street. c. Designated parking area (DPA). An outdoor area in the front yard of a residential lot which is designed in accordance with the requirements of this section for the parking of personal vehicles. d. Front yard. The area forward of the front facades extending to the street property line and between the side property lines. 2. General requirements for prepared parking areas. Sketch C Garage/carport Designated Parking Area (DPA) Driveway a. Location and design. 1) Single family residential districts. See Sketch C. a) Parking on the driveway and/or designated parking area shall be confined to no more than one third of the front yard. b) The driveway/designated parking area shall be cohesive and restricted to one side of the yard or the other. The driveway/designated parking area shall be located to the side of the property where the carport or garage is located. c) The driveway/designated parking area shall not be located in the middle of the front yard unless the driveway is designed to be circular or unless the lot configuration, natural topography, natural feature, or entrance alignment with a public or private street prevent the driveway from being located elsewhere. d) A landscaped or grassed area shall be provided between the circular driveway and the right-of-way. e) Exemptions. The following parking situations shall be allowed:
i) Circular driveways may exceed the maximum one-third (1/3) width for the front yard. A designated parking area is not permitted in addition to a circular driveway. ii) Rear yard parking. The detached garage shall be a legally permitted structure. As required for front yard parking, the driveway/designated parking area shall be on one side of the rear yard and adjacent to the carport or garage. 2) Duplex-residential unit or R-2F zoning district. One designated parking area with a maximum ten (10) foot width is permitted immediately adjacent to each driveway. b. Materials. 1) The driveway/designated parking area may be constructed of pervious or impervious materials. 2) Pervious parking areas shall have a border to define the area and restrict migration of materials. Such border may include healthy landscape plants, landscape timbers, pavers, brick or similar materials. c. General requirements. 1) Vehicles parked on the driveway/designated parking area shall not encroach into the sidewalk. The sidewalk shall be defined in Section 316.003, Florida Statutes, and shall include any portion of a sidewalk that traverses a driveway. 2) Impervious area. The impervious surface ratio (ISR) for each residential site shall not exceed the maximum allowed ISR provided in Table 2-5.4, Size and Dimension Regulations, except for those properties where the front yard has been reduced due to eminent domain actions. In those cases, maximum lot coverage may not exceed 60% ISR. 3) Permit. A site construction permit shall be required from the Building Division whenever impervious materials are used to construct a driveway or designated parking area on any residential lot. 4) Conformance. An existing driveway or designated parking area that is not consistent with criteria E.2. (a) Location and E.2. (b) Materials shall become compliant on or before February 1, 2010, except for those driveways and designated parking areas that have been constructed based on a permit issued by the City of Casselberry. Where a City permit was issued, the driveways and designated parking areas shall be considered lawful non-complying structures for purposes of Chapter II, Article VIII of the City s ULDR. F. Unlicensed and/or Inoperable Vehicles. All vehicles located on a residential site shall be fully licensed and operable. An unlicensed and/or inoperable vehicle on any residential site shall either be: (1) currently licensed and be rendered operable, or (2) the unlicensed/inoperable vehicle must be parked in a garage or removed from the property.