Tucson has a rule about the car on your own driveway, and it is the one most likely to matter before you ever call a yard. The city bars storing a junked or inoperable vehicle on private property, with exceptions for licensed businesses and for vehicles enclosed in a garage or carport or screened behind opaque fencing at least five feet high. That is what turns a project car into a deadline.
Tucson Code section 16-15 provides that "no person owning, occupying or in control of any private property within the city may store any junked or inoperable vehicle on the owned or occupied property, or on any abutting sidewalks, streets or alleys, except as otherwise permitted under this section".
The section carries exceptions, including for licensed businesses where such storage is necessary to the business, and for a vehicle enclosed within a garage or carport or screened behind opaque fencing at least five feet high.
That's the provision that turns a project car into a deadline, and it's the reason a Tucson seller often approaches a yard sooner than a seller elsewhere.
Tucson's Unified Development Code defines salvaging and recycling as "the reclamation and recovery of used materials and the processing of discarded scrap materials for commercial purposes", naming auto salvage yards and junkyards as examples. The use is permitted in the P-I, I-1 and I-2 zones, and available as a special exception in I-2.
The code also carries use-specific standards for salvage operations. We could not retrieve those reliably and we are not going to summarize a section we could not read cleanly, so anything turning on the detailed standards is a question for Tucson's Planning and Development Services rather than for this page.
In Tucson the clock on the vehicle at home is often the reason for the call, so the first questions are about how quickly it can go.
Not in the open. Tucson Code section 16-15 bars a person owning, occupying or in control of private property in the city from storing any junked or inoperable vehicle on that property, or on abutting sidewalks, streets or alleys, except as the section permits.
Licensed businesses where such storage is necessary to the business, and a vehicle enclosed within a garage or carport, or screened behind opaque fencing at least five feet high.
Because it puts a deadline on a project car that a seller elsewhere would not face, which is why a Tucson owner often approaches a yard sooner.
The Unified Development Code defines salvaging and recycling as the reclamation and recovery of used materials and the processing of discarded scrap materials for commercial purposes, naming auto salvage yards and junkyards as examples. The use is permitted in the P-I, I-1 and I-2 zones, and available as a special exception in I-2.
The code carries use-specific standards, but they could not be retrieved cleanly and are not summarized here. Anything turning on that detail is a question for Tucson's Planning and Development Services.