a. Accumulation, collection, or storage of solid waste without prior approval of the Manager, unless the owner is licensed by lawful authority to operate a business specifically for those purposes.

b. An abandoned, discarded or unattended icebox, refrigerator or other container with a compartment of more than one and one-half cubic feet capacity and a door or lid which locks or fastens automatically when closed and which cannot be easily opened from the inside.

a. Any vehicles not parked on an approved surface of asphalt, concrete, or ¾ minus gravel designed and constructed in accordance with Public Works Construction Standards will be considered a nuisance an subject to abatement;

b. Any abandoned vehicle upon private or public property, unless the owner of the property is lawfully authorized to operate a business specifically for that purpose; non-recreational vehicles on any public street in excess of 48 hours will be considered abandoned and subject to abatement procedure outlined in Chapter 10.24

c. A commercial vehicle which exceeds eight thousand pounds gross weight, twenty-one feet in length, or eight feet in height parked in the driveway or parking area in a residential zone unless it is a vehicle that is routinely on standby and necessary to use under emergency circumstances.

d. Any vehicle or other personal property such as a trailer, boat, recreation vehicle, or pleasure craft, parked or stored in such a way as to obstruct the public sidewalk.

e. Unlawfully parking or placing any recreational vehicle (RV) in use for but not limited to sleeping or living purposes within the city for any period of time exceeding eight hours, except in an RV park, and no cooking shall be done in an RV outside an RV park. An RV used for sleeping or living purposes may be parked in the city on private property with owner’s permission, for a period of time not to exceed ten days in a calendar year.

f. Vehicle storage and repair in residential neighborhoods unless lawfully permitted pursuant to the Wood Village Zoning Code.

g. Storage of a discarded vehicle upon any private property within the City unless the vehicle is completely enclosed within a building or unless it is in connection with a lawfully conducted business dealing in junked or stored vehicles. For the purposes of this chapter, "discarded vehicle" includes any vehicle that does not have an affixed and unexpired license plate and is inoperative, wrecked, fully or partially dismantled, abandoned, or junked. "Discarded vehicle" also includes major parts of such vehicles, including but not limited to bodies, engines, transmissions, and rear-ends.

a. A pond or pool of stagnant water which emits an obnoxious odor or is a source of vector breeding or otherwise presents a threat to the public health, safety, and welfare.

b. Dead or decaying trees and tree limbs that present a safety hazard to the public or to abutting property owners.

c. Signs, hedges, shrubbery, natural growth, or other obstructions at or near intersections which hinder the view necessary for the safe operation of vehicles.

d. Obstruction to public sidewalks or roadways by trees, bushes, roots, other natural growth, soil, or solid waste.

e. Uncontrolled or uncultivated growth of weeds, brush, poison oak, poison ivy, tansy ragwort, or grasses over ten (10) inches in height which have the potential to offer harborage to vectors and rodents, contribute noxious pollens to the atmosphere, constitute a fire hazard, or unreasonably interfere with the use and enjoyment of abutting public or private property.

f. An animal carcass not buried or destroyed within twenty-four hours after death.

a. Any property, whether vacant or improved buildings, residential structure, or accumulation of any materials, which is infested by vectors or rodents.

b. Any vacant building left unsecured and unattended and accessible to the public.

c. Any building or structure as defined in the Wood Village Building Code (Section 15.04.020) which is structurally unsafe, not provided with adequate egress, which constitutes a fire hazard, is unsanitary, or is otherwise dangerous or constitutes a health hazard to humans. This includes any use of buildings or structures constituting a hazard to safety, health, or public welfare by reason of inadequate maintenance, dilapidation, obsolescence, fire hazard, disaster, damage, or abandonment is hereby declared an unsafe use. Parapet walls, cornices, spires, towers, tanks, statuary, and other appendages or structural members which are supported by, attached to, or a part of a building and which are in deteriorated condition or otherwise unable to sustain the design loads which are specified in the Building Code are hereby declared unsafe building appendages.

d. Any premises maintaining an attractive nuisance which may prove harmful to inquisitive minors, including unsecured machinery, unsecured building materials, solid waste, insufficiently secured buildings, excavations, abandoned motor vehicles, unsecured and structurally unsound structures, or similar conditions on property.

e. An open pit, well, quarry, cistern, excavation or other hole of a depth of four feet or more and a top width of 12 inches or more without reasonable safeguards or barriers to prevent them from being accessible to children.

f. Any excavation which endangers the lateral support or causes cracking, settling, or other damage to streets, sidewalks, or other public property.

g. A fence, barrier, partition or obstruction located in a residential zone and which is partially or totally constructed with barbed wire or is electrically charged in such a manner as to transmit an electrical shock or charge upon contact.

h. Connection of any electric, water, sewer, gas, or telephone line from any source to a motor home, travel trailer, camper, or utility trailer if any portion of such line between the connection at the termination and the point of connection at the source extends over, across, or under any public street, sidewalk, alley, or other public right-of-way or portion thereof.

i. Any explosive or radioactive substance unless the possession is authorized by law.

a. Maintenance of poultry, livestock, or non-domesticated animals except for Chickens as stated in Chapter 6.06.

b. Unlawful camping prohibited

c. Any activity or behavior that requires a law enforcement response including but not limited to the following: harassment; intimidation; disorderly conduct; public indecency; prostitution; alcohol violations; offensive littering; possession, manufacture, or delivery of controlled substances; illegal gambling; criminal mischief; curfew violations; unlawful use of a weapon; and criminal trespass.

d. Noise. By definition noise is not considered a nuisance, however, excessive noise is addressed in Section 9.12.

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