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. affected properties. (No fences or significant landscaping could be installed in the easement areas.) (Amended by ordinance 89-12, 7/26/89) Subdivision 5. Off-Street Parking and Loading (see also "Design and Performance -Standards for Off Street Parking") a. Regulation ofoff-street parking and loading spaces in this Code is to alleviate or prevent congestion of the public right-of--way and to promote the safety and general welfare of the public by establishing minimum requirements for off-street parking, loading and unloading from motor vehicles in accordance with the utilization of the various parcels of land and structures. b. Permits prior to effective date -structures or uses for which a building permit has been issued prior to the effective date of this Code, but for which work has not been completed shall be exempt from the hereinafter stated parking requirements if the structure is completed within six (6) months after the effective date of this Code. c. Surfacing and drainage. Off-street parking areas shall be improved with a durable and dustless paved surface. Such areas shall be so graded and drained as to dispose of all surface water accumulation within the • parking area. d. Parking shall be permitted on hard surfaced areas designed for that purpose and for providing access to garage, carport or open parking area and provided that no driveway oroff-street open parking area shall be located closer than five (5) feet from the property line on that side. The five (5) feet of property known as the side yard shall be landscaped as shall the remainder of the front yard applying to the residential portion of the house and continuing to the far lot line removed from the access and/or parking driveway. Parking shall not be permitted in any part of landscaped yards, boulevards, grass portion of street right-of--way or other such areas (except as allowed for boats and unoccupied trailers under "exterior storage" provision of this code). And provided further that from November 15 to April 1, the unsurfaced portion of the front yard of any property in a residential district may be used for parking one passenger vehicle registered in the name of a resident, if there is a single driveway, and the vehicle is parked parallel to the driveway and on one uniform side of the driveway, and the width of the parking area does not exceed eight feet. For purposes of this Code a "passenger vehicle" shall mean a two or four-door sedan or van used primarily for transporting passengers, and shall not include pickups, trucks, campers, recreational vehicles or buses. e. Number of off-street parking spaces. At least two (2) and not more than four (4) parking spaces permitted for each dwelling unit. At least one • of the parking spaces must be enclosed. 4