Chapter 17.02 – GENERAL PROVISIONS – ABATEMENT OF NUISANCE ON PRIVATE PROPERTY

17.02.010 – General provision. Any thing or condition, including but not limited to violations of this Code or state law, which threatens injury or damage to the health, safety, welfare or property of members of the public, which obstructs the free use of property of others or interferes with the comfortable enjoyment of life or property is a nuisance. Any thing or condition, including but not limited to violations of this Code or state law, which fails to provide minimum standards of safety and habitability in housing for any citizen of the city is a nuisance. Such nuisances are prohibited within the City of San José and no person shall create or participate in the creation or maintenance of such a nuisance.

Chapter 17.72 – COMMUNITY PRESERVATON

17.72.600 – Parking on unpaved surfaces prohibited.

A. No person shall keep, store or park any trailer, boat or motor vehicle on any portion of a front yard or corner lot side yard facing a street of a property designed or used as a residence, except on an area that is paved.

B. No owner, tenant, manager, or occupant of property used as a residence shall allow or suffer another person to keep, store or park any trailer, boat or motor vehicle on any portion of a front yard or corner lot side yard facing a street, except on an area that is paved.

17.72.610 – Recreational vehicle parking and storage limitations.            

A. No person shall park or store any recreational vehicle in the front yard of property designed or used as a residence unless the recreational vehicle is parked or stored perpendicular to the street.

B. An owner or operator of a recreational vehicle parked or stored on property designed or used as a residence shall be an occupant of the property upon which the recreational vehicle is parked or stored, except as set forth in Section 17.72.580 of this chapter.

C. No property owner or tenant shall allow or suffer another person to park or store a recreational vehicle on property designed or used as a residence in a manner prohibited by any provision of this Code.

17.72.620 – Other parking restrictions. 

Nothing contained in this part is intended to nor shall be construed or interpreted to allow parking that is prohibited or restricted by any other provision of this Code or by any other provision of law.

17.72.580 – Activities prohibited on property designed or used as a residence.

Subject to Section 17.72.585, the following activities on any property designed or used as a residence constitute property blight:

A. Wrecking, dismantling, disassembling, manufacturing, fabricating, building, remodeling, assembling, repairing, painting, or servicing, in any setback area, of any airplane, aircraft, motor vehicle, special mobile equipment, boat, trailer, machinery, equipment, appliance or appliances, furniture or other personal property.

B. The use of any motor vehicle for living or sleeping quarters in any place in the city, except in a location lawfully operated as a mobilehome park or travel trailer park, subject to the following:

1. 1. 1. 1. Nothing contained in this section shall be deemed to prohibit bona fide guests of a city resident from occupying a recreational vehicle upon residential premises with the consent of the resident for a period not to exceed seventy-two hours; and
         2. Any recreational vehicle so used shall not discharge any waste or sewage into the city’s sewer system except through the residential discharge connection of the residential premises on which the recreational vehicle is parked.