Madera

Private streets and alleys shall be designed to public street standards (where applicable), or propose modifications, and be privately owned and maintained for their intended purpose without public cost or maintenance responsibility.

All uses not otherwise prohibited by law shall be permitted provided that a use permit shall first be secured for any use to be established in any U zone.

Every building hereafter erected in the city shall be provided with parking spaces as provided in § 10-3.1202 of this subchapter, subject to the other provisions of this subchapter.

the number of off-street parking spaces required shall be as follows: ... Employee parking shall be provided at a rate of one space per every two employees.

the parking requirements for such new, different, or expanded use may be satisfied by the payment to the city, prior to the issuance of a building permit, of the sum of $4,500 per parking space

None of the requirements of this subchapter for off-street parking spaces shall apply to the use of a building in existence on August 1, 1978.

Every lot used as a public or private parking area and having a capacity of five or more vehicles shall be developed and maintained in the following manner: ...

Each off-street parking space shall have a width of not less than nine feet and a length of not less than 19 feet...

The building or use for which application is being made for authority to utilize the existing off-street parking facilities provided by another building or use shall be located within 150 feet of such parking facility.

In any zone, in connection with every building, or part thereof, erected on, or after, August 4, 1978, having a floor area of 5,000 square feet or more, which building is to be occupied by manufacturing, storage, warehouse, goods display, retail store, wholesale storage, market, hotel, hospital, mortuary, laundry, dry cleaning, or other uses similarly requiring the receipt or distribution by vehicles of material or merchandise, there shall be provided and maintained on the same parcel with such building at least one off-street loading space, plus one additional loading space for each additional 20,000 square feet, or fraction thereof, of gross floor area.

Every parking area located in an R zone shall be governed by the following provisions in addition to those required by § 10-3.1206 of this subchapter:

Every parking area located in an R zone shall be governed by the following provisions in addition to those required by § 10-3.1206 of this subchapter.

No building permit shall be issued in any case where a use permit is required by the terms of this chapter unless and until such permit has been granted by the Commission or Council...

No person shall operate a large family day care home in any single-family residential zone without first obtaining a use permit...

Variance procedures for relief from strict application of zoning regulations.

Procedures for amending the zoning code, including notice, hearings, and special zoning exceptions.

The use of any trailer, camper, recreational vehicle, or motor vehicle for living or sleeping quarters in any place in the city outside of a lawfully operated mobile home park or travel trailer park. This shall not prevent bona fide guests of a city resident from occupying a trailer, camper, or recreation vehicle on residential premises with the consent of the resident or land-owner for a period not to exceed 72 hours.

The placing, hanging, affixing, maintaining or otherwise displaying upon any fence, wall, tree, bush, plant, or any other structure or portion thereof, any clothes, linens, rugs, fabrics, carpets, rags, or any other similar item except upon a clothesline apparatus constructed and maintained for the purpose of placing such items outside for drying. The placement of such clothesline(s) shall be prohibited within any required front yard or street side yard setback area.

The maintaining of trees, weeds, or other types of vegetation that are dead, decayed, infested, diseased, overgrown, likely to harbor rats, vermin or other nuisances or which obstruct the view of drivers on public streets or private driveways, or which impede, obstruct or deny pedestrian or other lawful travel on sidewalks, walkways, or other public rights-of-way. The following conditions of vegetation shall be deemed to be a non-exclusive list of nuisances: (a) A tree with limbs overhanging a street or sidewalk where such limbs are less than ten feet above such street or sidewalk; (b) A hedge, bush or shrub overhanging a street or sidewalk; (c) A hedge, bush or shrub on a corner lot within the triangular area formed by a line connecting points 20 feet from the intersection of projected street property lines with the point of the intersection of street property lines if such hedge, bush or shrub is more than 30 inches high from the surface of the ground; (d) ... (e) Turf in excess of eight inches in height.

To abandon or vacate any structure so that it becomes readily available to unauthorized persons, including, but not limited to, juveniles and vagrants. Such abandonment or vacation shall be presumed when a building or structure which is uninhabited or unused is unsecured and when the public can gain entry without consent of the owner or is a partially constructed, reconstructed, or demolished building or structure upon which work is abandoned, such abandonment being deemed to exist when there is no valid and current building or demolition permit or where there has not been any substantial work on the project for a period of six months or more.