Antioch City Zoning Code

The business districts ("B districts") are intended primarily for retail, service, and commercial land uses. The various business districts are intended to maintain and promote a variety of commercial activities within the village.

   A.   B-1 Neighborhood Convenience District: This district is intended to provide convenience shopping for persons living in adjacent residential areas. Permitted uses are those that satisfy basic daily or frequent shopping needs. The district is also intended to promote pedestrian access to shopping and services. This zoning district corresponds, approximately, to the smaller areas planned for general commercial use in the comprehensive plan.

   B.   B-2 Highway Business District: This district is intended to accommodate a broad range of retail, service, and commercial uses, and allows for the highest intensity of such uses. Unlike the other business districts, where pedestrian travel to and from the commercial activity is encouraged, virtually all patrons will arrive by automobile. This zoning district corresponds to larger tracts planned for general commercial land use in the village's comprehensive plan. (Ord. 19-12-43, 1-13-2020)

   A.   Specific Standards For B Districts: Specific minimum and maximum standards for lots, buildings and yards in the B districts are listed in division D, business district standards, of this section.

      1.   Setback Buffer: All structures on the B-zoned lot must be setback a distance that is equal to or greater than the setback requirement for the R-zoned lot. If the B-zoned property abuts two (2) different R districts, then the greater setback shall apply.

      2.   Landscape Buffer: A landscape buffer must also be maintained. This buffer shall extend the length of the lot line or segment of the lot line that abuts the residential district and shall be at least forty feet (40') wide and planted with landscaping that provides one hundred percent (100%) opacity. No landscaped buffer is required where a street, alley, railroad or other public right of way that is at least ten feet (10') wide separates the B-zoned and R-zoned lots.

      3.   Buffer Restrictions: The landscape buffer landscape buffer shall not be used for the purposes of parking, loading, servicing, or storage.

      4.   Screening: Permanent opaque walls or opaque fences at least four feet (4') in height or densely planted shrubbery or plant material at least four feet (4') in height must be maintained. Chain-link fences may not be used to comply with this screening requirement. Additionally, the village board may require a fence in cases where it finds that plant material is insufficient to protect the health, safety and welfare of the adjacent landowners and occupants.

   B.   Outdoor Operations: All business, service and commercial activities must be conducted within completely enclosed buildings unless otherwise expressly allowed in 10-7-3, or this section. This requirement does not apply to automated teller machines, or to off-street parking and loading or drive-through operations that are otherwise permitted by this title. The village board may waive this provision by designating certain days on which special promotions may be conducted outside the building.

   C.   Outdoor Dining And Drinking: On-site outdoor seating areas for the patrons of eating and drinking establishments are allowed as an accessory use so long as the establishment complies with any permitting requirements that the village, from time to time, may establish.

   D.   Business District Standards:

 

 

 

 

 

(Ord. 19-12-43, 1-13-2020)

   A.   In no instance shall outside display and sales, storage or service of merchandise be located within, nor encroach upon, a fire lane, maneuvering aisle, or a parking space necessary to meet the minimum parking requirements of the use(s) on the property.

   B.   Where public sidewalks are present, no outside display or sale of goods shall be permitted on the public sidewalks, unless the outdoor sales or displays takes place during a special downtown event or applicant obtains an "outdoor sales" permit from the village for a maximum of five (5) days per permit. A maximum of six (6) permits per year may be obtained by any individual applicant. No entrance area to a building shall be blocked by the display of outdoor goods for sale.

   C.   Junk or rubbish is not permissible outdoor storage unless the use is a permitted junkyard/salvage yard or landfill.

   D.   1.   Outdoor display and sales of goods are limited to the following areas:

         a.   Front yard if the goods are located within five feet (5') of the store or ten feet (10') from any public right of way.

         b.   Any side yard not facing a public right of way.

         c.   Any rear yard.

      2.   Automobile dealers, other vehicle dealers and rental and leasing services, lumberyards and nurseries are exempt from this provision.

   E.   Outdoor display or inventory cannot be displayed or stored in landscape areas or buffers; within ten feet (10') of public right of way or on private access roads; in parking spaces or on elevated pads, ramps and similar structures.

   F.   Outdoor display or inventory must be setback at least ten feet (10') from adjacent residential properties or alternatively, a six foot (6') privacy fence must be installed along the interior side yard.

   G.   Where outdoor display is located adjacent to a building, an unoccupied area of not less than three feet (3') in width shall be provided for pedestrian access between any outside display and vehicle overhang areas of any adjacent parking lot.

   H.   The short-term sale of agricultural products that are seasonal in nature, including, but not limited to, produce, nursery stock, Christmas trees, pumpkins, farmers' markets, and other similar products are subject to the issuance of a temporary outdoor sales permit issued by the community development department. (Ord. 19-12-43, 1-13-2020)

The following special uses relating to recreational cannabis may be permitted in specific situations in accordance with the procedures outlined in the recreational cannabis mercantile regulations, chapter 10-19, as appropriate: recreational cannabis dispensing organization. (Ord. 19-12-44, 12-19-2019)