In unincorporated St. Clair County residential districts, the zoning ordinance excludes parking of commercial vehicles and trucks over three-quarter-ton capacity from permitted off-street parking. Larger trucks are not an allowed residential use unless zoning provides otherwise.
The St. Clair County Zoning Ordinance lists permitted uses in residential districts (Sec. 40-4) that include 'Off-street parking spaces but not including parking for commercial vehicles or trucks of more than three-quarter (3/4) ton class, camp trailers, motor home and other recreation vehicles or boats, unless parking spaces are specifically provided therefore in the rear yard only in addition to the off-street parking spaces required for dwelling units.' In effect, keeping a heavy commercial truck or semi at a home in a residential district is not a permitted use. Commercial off-street parking areas in business and industrial districts must be paved with an all-weather surface and properly drained (Sec. 40-6-10(E)). Municipalities set their own commercial-vehicle rules within their limits.
Storing a prohibited commercial vehicle in a residential district is a zoning violation subject to a removal notice and enforcement by the Zoning Administrator.
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