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There are car parts on the street and sidewalk. This is a code enforcement issue. The twenty other cars associated with this business are parked along Third street and up and down Lemon street this is a traffic issue. 16.309.03 - Operating standards.
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A.Work Areas.1.All work shall be conducted within an enclosed building, except pumping motor vehicle fluids, checking and supplementing fluids, and mechanical inspection and adjustments not involving any disassembly.2.Automobile repair facilities performing body and fender work or similar noise-generating activities shall be conducted in fully enclosed structures with walls of concrete block or similar materials and doors in maximum half open position during operating hours. All painting shall occur within a fully enclosed booth.3.Existing automobile repair facilities with structures that have doors on opposite ends of individual service bays shall be required to leave any such door facing a residential district or use fully closed during repair activities.4.Outdoor lifts are prohibited.B.Spray/Paint Booths. Spray booth stacks shall be screened from arterial streets and shall be separated a minimum of five hundred feet from residential zoning districts, parks, schools, and daycare centers. the planning commission or director may reduce this separation to no less than one hundred feet if a human health risk assessment (HHRA), prepared by a qualified professional, demonstrates to the satisfaction of the planning commission or director that levels of spray booth chemicals present in the ambient air at adjacent properties will be below applicable thresholds of concern for human health.C.Vehicles Awaiting Repair. All vehicles awaiting repair shall be parked on-site. No vehicles shall be parked on a public street, or an adjoining sidewalk including those towed to the automobile repair facility. The hoods of vehicles awaiting parts or repair parked outside shall remain closed at all times while work is not being performed. Any disassembled vehicles awaiting parts or repair for twenty-four hours or longer shall be stored inside of a building.D.Noise. All building enclosures for body and fender or similar noise generating activity shall include sound-attenuating measures incorporated into the building design and construction to absorb noise. Bay openings shall be oriented so as to minimize the effects of sound emanating from the auto repair building towards residential uses, outdoor restaurant seating, and outdoor reception areas. Compressors shall be located within separately enclosed, sound-attenuated rooms.E.Air Quality.1.Use of brake washers shall be required in service stalls or areas that perform service on brakes employing asbestos or other materials known to be harmful when dispersed in the air.2.All mechanical ventilating equipment shall be directed to top story exhaust vents, which face away from abutting or adjacent residential properties.3.Exhaust systems shall be equipped with appropriate and reasonably available control technology to minimize or eliminate noxious pollutants, which would otherwise be emitted.F.Hours of Operation. Unless otherwise approved by the director or planning commission, if the automobile/vehicle repair use is within one hundred feet of a residential zoning district, operation of the use shall be prohibited between the hours of 10:00 p.m. and 7:00 a.m.
16.308.03 My guess is that this does not apply because the City has issued a number of variances to this business.