9.1 M-1 light industry district.

Conditions of use. All permitted uses are subject to the following conditions:

Any production, processing, cleaning, servicing, testing, repair or storage of goods, materials, or products shall conform with the performance standards set forth below.

All business, production, servicing and processing shall take place within completely enclosed buildings unless otherwise, specified. Within one hundred and fifty (150) feet of a residence district, all storage shall be in completely enclosed buildings or structures, and storage located elsewhere in this district may be open to the sky but shall be enclosed by solid walls or fences (including solid doors or gates thereto) at least eight (8) feet high, but in no case lower in height than the enclosed storage and suitably landscaped.

However, open off-street loading facilities and open off-street parking of motor vehicles under one and one-half (1½) tons capacity may be enclosed throughout the district, except for such screening of parking and loading facilities as may be required under the provisions of section X.

Uses established on the effective date of this ordinance and, by its provisions, are rendered nonconforming, shall be permitted to continue, subject to the provisions of section.

Uses established after the effective date of this ordinance shall conform fully to the performance standards hereinafter set forth for the district.

Permitted uses. The following uses are permitted:

Retail and services uses, as follows:

Animal pounds and shelters.

Automobile service stations where the retail sale of gasoline and oil for motor vehicles, including minor services customarily incidental thereto, may be conducted out-of-doors. Lubricating and washing facilities, including auto laundries, are permitted only if in a completely enclosed building.

Battery and tire service stations.

Beverages, nonalcoholic, bottling and distributing.

Contractor or construction shops, such as building, cement, electrical, refrigeration, air conditioning, masonry, painting, plumbing, roofing, heating and ventilating.

Fuel sales, with storage of fuel oils, gasoline and other flammable products limited to one hundred twenty thousand (120,000) gallons per tank, with the total storage on a zoning lot not to exceed five hundred thousand (500,000) gallons.

Garages and parking lots, other than accessory, and subject of the provisions of section X.

Greenhouses.

Ice sales, linen, towel, diaper and other similar supply services.

Riding academies and stables, horse.

Production, processing, cleaning, testing or repair, limited to the following uses and products:

Advertising displays.

Apparel and other products manufactured from textiles.

Automobile painting, upholstering, repairing, reconditioning, and body and fender repairing, when done within the confines of a structure.

Awnings, venetian blinds.

Bakeries.

Beverages, nonalcoholic.

Blacksmith shops.

Books, hand binding and tooling.

Bottling works.

Brushes and brooms.

Building equipment, building materials, lumber, coal, sand and gravel yards, and yards for contracting equipment of public agencies, or public utilities, or materials or equipment of similar nature.

Canning and preserving.

Canvas and canvas products.

Carpet and rug cleaning.

Carting, express hauling or storage yard.

Cement block manufacture.

Ceramic products, such as pottery and small glazed tile.

Cleaning and dyeing establishments.

Clothing.

Cosmetics and toiletries.

Creameries and dairies.

Drugs.

Electric appliances such as lighting fixtures, irons, fans, toasters and electric toys.

Electrical equipment assembly, such as home radio and television receivers and home movie equipment, but not including electrical machinery.

Electrical supplies, manufacturing and assembly of, such as wire and cable assembly, switches, lamps, insulation and dry cell batteries.

Food products, processing and combining of (except meat and fish), baking, boiling, canning, cooking, dehydrating, freezing, frying, grinding, mixing and pressing.

Fur goods, not including tanning and dyeing.

Glass products, from previously manufactured glass.

Hair, felt, and feather products (except washing, curing and dyeing).

Hat bodies of fur and wool felt.

Hosiery.

House trailers.

Ice, dry and natural.

Ink mixing and packaging and inked ribbons.

Insecticides.

Jewelry.

Laboratories, medical, dental, research, experimental and testing, provided there is no danger from fire or explosion nor offensive noise, vibration, smoke, dust, odors, heat, glare or other objectionable influences.

Laundries.

Leather products, including shoes and machine belting.

Luggage.

Machine shops for tool, die and pattern making.

Meat products.

Metal finishing, plating, grinding, sharpening, polishing, cleaning, rustproofing, and heat treatment.

Metal stamping and extrusion of small products, such as costume jewelry, pins and needles, razor blades, bottle caps, buttons and kitchen utensils.

Musical instruments.

Orthopedic and medical appliances, such as artificial limbs, braces, supports, and stretchers.

Paper products, small, such as envelopes and stationery, bags, boxes, tubes and wallpaper printing.

Perfumes and cosmetics.

Pharmaceutical products, compounding only.

Plastic products, but not including the processing of the raw materials.

Poultry and rabbits, slaughtering.

Precision instruments, such as optical, medical and drafting.

Products from finished materials, plastic, bone, cork, feather, felt, fibre, fur, glass, hair, horn, leather, paper, precious and semiprecious stones, rubber, shell or yarn.

Public utility electric substations and distribution centers, gas regulation centers and underground gas holder stations.

Repair of household or office machinery or equipment.

Rubber products, small, and synthetic treated fabrics (excluding all rubber and synthetic processing), such as washers, gloves, footwear, bathing caps and atomizers.

Silverware, plate and sterling.

Soap, and detergents, packaging only.

Soldering and welding.

Sporting and athletic equipment, such as balls, baskets, cues, gloves, bats, racquets and rods.

Statuary, mannequins, figurines, and religious and church art goods, excluding foundry operations.

Storage and sale of trailers, farm implements and other similar equipment on an open lot.

Storage of flammable liquids, fats or oil in tanks each of fifty thousand (50,000) gallons or less capacity, but only after the locations and protective measures have been approved by local governing officials.

Textiles, spinning, weaving, manufacturing, dyeing, printing, knit goods, yarn thread and cordage, but not including textile bleaching.

Tobacco curing and manufacturing, and tobacco products.

Tool and die shops.

Tools and hardware, such as bolts, nuts and screws, door-knobs, drills, hand tools and cutlery, hinges, house hardware, locks, non-ferrous metal castings and plumbing appliances.

Toys.

Truck, tractor, trailer or bus storage yard, but not including a truck or motor freight terminal which shall be treated under the subsection, special uses.

Umbrellas.

Upholstering (bulk), including mattress manufacturing, rebuilding and renovating.

Vehicles, children's, such as bicycles, scooters, wagons and baby carriages.

Watches.

Wood products, such as furniture, boxes, crates, baskets and pencils and cooperage works.

Any other manufacturing establishments that can be operated in compliance with the performance standards of subsection "performance standards," without creating objectionable noise, odor, dust, smoke, gas, fumes or vapor; and that is a use compatible with the use and occupancy of adjoining properties.

Wholesale and warehousing, local cartage and express facilities (but not including motor freight terminals).

Public and community service uses, as follows:

Bus terminals, bus garages, bus lots, street railway terminal, or street car houses.

Electric substations.

Fire stations.

Municipal or privately owned recreation buildings or community centers.

Parks and recreation areas.

Police stations.

Sanitary land fill.

Sewage treatment plants.

Telephone exchanges.

Water filtration plants.

Water pumping stations.

Water reservoirs.

Residential uses, as follows:

Dwelling units for watchmen and their families when located on the premises where they are employed in such capacity.

Miscellaneous uses, as follows:

Accessory uses.

Radio and television towers.

Temporary buildings for construction purposes, for a period not to exceed the duration of such construction.

Off-street parking and loading, as permitted or required in section X.

Special uses. The following uses may be allowed by special use permit in accordance with the provisions of the administrative section:

Any use which may be allowed as a special use in the B-1 through B-4 business districts, including cannabis business establishments.

Planned developments, industrial.

Motor freight terminals.

Stadiums, auditoriums and arenas.

Any use permitted in the M-2 general manufacturing district, provided the performance standards of subsection, "performance standards," can be met in their entirety.

Yard areas. No building or structure shall hereafter be erected or structurally altered unless the following yards are provided and maintained in connection with such building:

(1)

Front yard. On every zoning lot a front yard of not less than twenty-five (25) feet in depth shall be provided. However, where lots within the same block and comprising forty (40) percent of the frontage on the same street are already developed on the effective date of this ordinance with front yards with an average depth of less than twenty-five (25) feet, then such average depth shall be the required front yard depth for such frontage in said block.

(2)

Side yards. On every zoning lot a side yard shall be provided along each side lot line. Each side yard shall be not less in width than ten (10) percent of the lot width, but need not exceed twenty (20) feet in width.

(3)

Rear yard. On every zoning lot a rear yard shall be provided and maintained of not less than twenty (20) feet in depth, except that the inner ten (10) feet may be used for off-street parking.

Performance standards. Any use established hereafter in any M-1 manufacturing district shall be so operated as to comply with the performance standards set forth as follows:

Noise. Sound levels shall be measured with a sound level meter and associated octave band filter manufactured according to standards prescribed by the American Standards Association. Measurements shall be made using the flat network of the sound level meter. Impulsive type noises shall be subject to the performance standard hereinafter prescribed provided that such noises shall be capable of being accurately measured with such equipment. Noises capable of being so measured, for the purpose of this ordinance, shall be those noises which cause rapid fluctuations of the needle of the sound level meter with a variation of no more than plus or minus two (2) decibels. Noises incapable of being so measured, such as those of an irregular and intermittent nature, shall be controlled so as not to become a nuisance to adjacent uses.

At no point either on the boundary of a residence district or a business district or at one hundred twenty-five (125) feet from the nearest property line of a plant or operation, whichever distance is greater, shall the sound pressure level of an individual operation or plant (other than the operation of motor vehicles and other transportation facilities) exceed the decibel levels at the designated octave bands shown hereafter for the districts indicated:

Smoke and particulate matter. No stack shall emit more than ten (10) smoke units during any one (1) hour, nor shall smoke of a density in excess of Ringelmann No. 2 be emitted, provided that during a single one-hour period in each twenty-four-hour day, each stack may emit up to twenty (20) smoke units when blowing soot or cleaning fires, and during such cleaning of fires, smoke of a density of Ringelmann No. 3 may be emitted, but not for longer than four (4) minutes each period.

No emission of smoke or particulate matter shall exceed a density of Ringelmann No. 3, except for a plume consisting entirely of condensed steam. For the purposes of grading the density of emission, the Ringelmann Chart published and used by the United States Bureau of Mines shall be employed.

The rate of emission of particulate matter from all sources within the boundaries of any lot shall not exceed a net figure of one (1) pound per acre of lot area during any one (1) hour.

Dust and other forms of air pollution borne by air and wind from such sources as storage area, yards, roads, etc., within lot boundaries shall be kept to a minimum by appropriate landscaping, paving, oiling, or other acceptable means. The emission of particulate matter from such sources shall conform with the requirements of the preceding paragraph.

In addition to the performance standards specified herein, the emission of smoke and particulate matter in such manner or quantity as to be detrimental to or endanger the public health, safety, comfort or welfare is hereby declared to be a public nuisance.

Odorous matter. The emission of odorous matter from any property in such concentrations as to be readily detectable at any point along the boundaries of said property or in such concentrations as to create a public nuisance or hazard beyond such boundaries is prohibited.

Vibration. Any process or equipment which produces intense earth-shaking vibration, such as are created by heavy drop forges or heavy hydraulic surges, shall be set back at least five hundred (500) feet from the property boundaries on all sides, except for a property line adjoining an M-2 district, where such setback shall not be mandatory. However, in no case shall any such vibrations be allowed to create a public nuisance or hazard beyond the property boundaries.

Toxic or noxious matter. No use on any property shall discharge across the boundaries of said property toxic or noxious matter in such concentrations as to be detrimental to or endanger the public health, safety, comfort or welfare, or cause injury or damage to other property or business.

Glare or heat. Any operation producing intense glare or heat shall be performed within a completely enclosed building and effectively screened in such a manner as not to create a public nuisance or hazard along property boundaries.

Fire and explosive hazards. Fire and explosive hazards shall be controlled as follows:

Activities involving the storage or manufacture of materials or products which decompose by detonation are not permitted in the M-1 districts.

The storage, utilization or manufacture of materials or products ranging from free or active burning to intensive burning, as determined by the zoning administrator, is permitted under the following conditions:

(1)

All storage, utilization or manufacture of such materials or products shall be within completely enclosed buildings or structures having incombustible exterior walls; and

(2)

All such buildings or structures shall be set back at least forty (40) feet from property boundaries, or in lieu thereof, shall be protected throughout by an automatic sprinkler system complying with standards for installation prescribed by the National Fire Protection Association.

Materials or products which produce flammable or explosive vapors or gases under ordinary weather temperatures shall not be permitted in this district, with the exception of the following, which shall be permitted:

(1)

Materials required for emergency or standby equipment;

(2)

Materials used in secondary processes which are auxiliary to a principal operation, such as paint-spraying of finished products; and

(3)

Flammable liquids and oils stored, sold and used in conjunction with the operation of an automobile service station and customarily required or used in such operations.

9.2 M-2 heavy industry district.

Condition of use. All permitted uses are subject to the following conditions:

All production, processing, cleaning, servicing, testing, repair or storage of goods, materials or products shall conform with the performance standards set forth in subsection, Performance standards.

Within one hundred fifty (150) feet of a residence district, all business production, servicing, processing and storage shall take place or be within completely enclosed buildings, except that storage of materials may be open to the sky provided the storage area is enclosed with a solid wall or fence at least eight (8) feet high.

However, within such one hundred fifty (150) feet of a residence district, off-street loading facilities and off-street parking of motor vehicles under one and one-half (1½) tons capacity may be enclosed, except for such screening of parking and loading facilities as may be required under the provisions of dection X.

Permitted uses. The following uses are permitted:

Any use permitted in the M-1 districts.

Any production, processing, cleaning, servicing, testing or repair or storage of materials, goods or products which conform to the performance standards established for this district.

Any sexually oriented entertainment business.

Any wholesale or retail business involving the viewing, sale or rental of sexually oriented materials, including but not limited to videotapes, videodiscs, motion pictures, books, magazines, posters, photographs, and sexual devices or paraphernalia.

Special uses. Any use which may be allowed as a special use in the M-1 district may be allowed as a special use in this M-2 district, including cannabis business establishments.

Amortization of pre-existing regulated use. Any nonconforming building, structure, lot or regulated use which existing lawfully at the time of the adoption of article IX and article X of chapter 15 of the Municipal Code of the City of Calumet City, Cook County, Illinois, which shall become nonconforming upon the adoption of those articles may be amortized as hereinafter provided.

a.

Upon written notice from the department of inspectional services to the owners or interests therein, that any building, structure, lot or regulated use is nonconforming under the subdivision and zoning ordinance of the City of Calumet City, the owners or interests therein shall, within three (3) months from the date of such notice, apply to the department of inspectional services for a certificate of nonconformance and amortization schedule.

b.

Failure to apply for a certificate of nonconformance and amortization schedule within three (3) months of the notice provided for above will require the amortization of the nonconformance within six (6) months of the notice provided for above.

c.

Nonconformances that have obtained a certificate of nonconformance and amortization schedule from the department of inspectional services shall be discontinued within one (1) year of the notice provided for above.

Yard areas. All yard areas shall be the same as required or permitted in the M-1 limited manufacturing district.

Maximum floor area ratio. The maximum floor area ratio shall not exceed 3.0.

Performance standards. Any use established hereafter in an M-2 general manufacturing district shall be so operated as to comply with the performance standards set forth as follows:

Noise. The performance standards governing noise in the M-1 district shall apply.

Smoke and particulate matter. No stack shall emit more than twenty (20) smoke units during any one (1) hour, nor shall smoke of a density in excess of Ringelmann No. 2 be emitted provided that during fire cleaning periods each stack may emit four (4) minutes of smoke up to thirty (30) smoke units, twice for blowing soot and twice for cleaning fires, and during such cleaning for fires, smoke of a density of Ringelmann No. 3 may be emitted.

No emission of smoke or particulate matter shall exceed a density of Ringelmann No. 3, except for a plume consisting entirely of condensed steam. For the purpose of grading the density of emissions, the Ringelmann Chart published and used by the United States Bureau of Mines shall be employed.

The rate of emission of particulate matter from all sources within the boundaries of any lot shall not exceed a net figure of three (3) pounds per acre of lot area during any one (1) hour.

Dust and other forms of air pollution borne by the wind from such sources as storage areas, yards, roads, etc., within lot boundaries shall be kept to a minimum by appropriate landscaping, paving, oiling, or other acceptable means. The emission of particulate matter from such sources shall conform with the requirements of the preceding paragraph.

In addition to the performance standards specified herein, the emission of smoke or particulate matter in such manner or quantity as to be detrimental to or endanger the public health, safety, comfort or welfare is hereby declared to be a public nuisance.

Odorous matter. The emission of odorous matter from any property in such concentrations as to be readily detectable at any point along the boundaries of said property when diluted in the ratio of one (1) volume of odorous air to four (4) or more volumes of clean air, or in such concentrations as to produce a public nuisance or hazard beyond the property boundaries is prohibited.

Vibration. Any process or equipment which produces intense earth-shaking vibrations, such as are created by heavy drop forges or heavy hydraulic surges, shall be set back at least five hundred (500) feet from the property boundaries on all sides. However, in no case shall such vibrations be allowed to create a public nuisance or hazard beyond the property boundaries.

Toxic or noxious matter. No use on any property shall discharge across the boundaries of said property toxic or noxious matter in such concentrations as to be detrimental to or endanger the public health, safety, comfort, or welfare, or cause injury or damage to other property or business.

Glare or heat. Any operation producing intense glare or heat shall be performed within an enclosure and effectively screened in such a manner as not to create a public nuisance or hazard along property boundaries.

Fire and explosive hazards. Fire and explosive hazards shall be controlled as follows:

Activities involving the storage or manufacture of materials or products which decompose by detonation are not permitted in the M-2 districts unless licensed by the city. However, in no case shall such materials or products be stored or manufactured within two hundred (200) feet of the boundary of any other district.

The storage, utilization and/or manufacture of materials or products ranging from incombustible to moderate burning, as determined by the zoning administrator, is permitted.

The storage, utilization or manufacture of materials or products ranging from free to active burning, to intense burning, as determined by the zoning administrator, is permitted, provided that within forty (40) feet of the boundary of a residence or business district the following restrictions shall apply:

(1)

All storage, utilization or manufacture of such materials, or products, shall be within completely enclosed buildings or structures having incombustible walls; and

(2)

All such buildings or structures shall be protected throughout by an automatic sprinkler system complying with standards for installation by the National Fire Protection Association.

Materials or products which produce flammable or explosive vapors or gasses under ordinary weather temperature shall not be permitted in this district, with the exception of the following, which are permitted:

(1)

Materials required for emergency or standby equipment;

(2)

Materials used in secondary processes which are auxiliary to a principal operation, such as paint spraying of finished products;

(3)

Flammable liquids and oils stored, sold and used in conjunction with the operation of an automobile service station and customarily required or used in such operation.

9.3 OR office research district.

(1)

Description and intent of district. The OR district is intended to allow for a mix of office uses, research and testing facilities and restricted manufacturing, warehousing and distribution in high-quality, well designed, low- to medium-density settings.

(2)

Permitted uses. The following uses are permitted in the OR district.

Banks and other financial institutions.

Business schools.

Display or catalog showroom.

Dry cleaning and/or laundry facilities.

Glass products production.

Laboratories, research and testing.

Linen supply.

Lithography.

Offices, business, professional, medical arts.

Paper products assembly.

Plastic products assembly.

Wholesale establishments.

Mail order houses.

Self-service storage facility.

Warehousing and distribution, excluding motor freight terminals.

Health and athletic clubs.

Precision instruments manufacturing.

Electronic component manufacturing and assembly.

Printing and publishing services.

Radio and television studios.

Research and development testing facilities.

Show rooms and sales area accessory to principal uses and within the principal structure not occupying more than ten (10) percent of the gross floor area.

Woodworking and wood products.

Commercial uses within the principal structure occupying not more than ten (10) percent of the gross floor area and limited to the following uses: Beauty/barber shop, food store florist, gift shop, photocopy shop, and letter and parcel services.

Accessory uses.

(3)

Special uses. The following special uses may be authorized in conformance with subsection 12.7 of this ordinance.

Animal hospital and clinic.

Cannabis craft growers.

Cannabis cultivation centers.

Cannabis dispensaries.

Cannabis infusers.

Cannabis processors.

Cannabis transporters.

Child day care center and preschool.

Planned development.

Public utilities, facilities and services.

Restaurant, sit down only.

Park and recreation uses.

Parking lot or structure.

Institutional uses.

Accessory uses.

(4)

Lot size requirements.

(a)

The lot area of each zoning lot shall not be less than twenty-five thousand (25,000) square feet.

(b)

The minimum lot width of each zoning lot shall not be less than one hundred (100) feet.

(5)

Yard requirements. The following yards shall be maintained in the OR district:

(6)

Maximum lot coverage. The total lot area occupied by any principal buildings and accessory buildings, together with all impervious surfaces, shall not exceed seventy-five (75) percent.

(7)

Maximum floor area. The maximum allowable floor area ratio in the OR district is .7.

(8)

Maximum building height. No building or structure shall be erected or altered to exceed a height of forty-five (45) feet.

(9)

District standards.

(a)

The minimum gross land area of any office research zoning district shall be ten (10) acres.

(b)

All on-site utility lines, but excluding high tension power lines, shall be located underground.

(c)

All business storage, and display of goods and services shall be conducted within a completely enclosed structure, except:

1.

Off-street parking and loading;

2.

Recreational uses;

3.

Accessory uses;

4.

Uses allowed as part of a special use permit.

(d)

All development shall meet the performance standards requirements of subsection 9.1, M-1 light industrial district.

(10)

Related regulations and requirements. Other pertinent regulations contained within this ordinance that shall be observed, include, but are not limited to:

(a)

Section IV [XII], subsection 12.9, state street—State line road redevelopment area site development plan review;

(b)

Section IV [XII], subsection 12.10, landscape plan approval;

(c)

Section X, off-street parking and loading;

(d)

Section XI, signs.

(Code 1980, App. B, § IX; Ord. No. 88-17, § 2, 7-14-1988; Ord. No. 96-30, § 1(Exh. A), 5-23-1996; Ord. No. 96-73, §§ 1, 2, 11-14-1996; Ord. No. 20-19, § 4, 4-9-2020)