The purpose of Article 8 is to promote the public health, safety, comfort, morals, convenience and general welfare and provide a level of industrial development which provides residents with needed goods and services, complements and serves residential development and enhances the City tax base.

No lot, parcel, or tract of land shall be used and no building or structure shall be erected, altered, or remodeled for any of the following uses: acid manufacture; arsenals; crematories; creosote treatment or manufacture; fat rendering; fertilizer manufacture; fireworks or explosive manufacture or storage; dumping or reduction of garbage, dead animals, offal or refuse; ore reduction; petroleum processing or refining; pyroxylin manufacture; gutta-percha manufacture of treatment; salt works; sauerkraut manufacture; soap manufacture; molters; stock yard or slaughter of animals or fowls; tallow, grease or land manufacture or treatment; tanning, curing, or storage of rawhides or skins; tar distillation or manufacture; glue manufacture.

No activities involving the storage, utilization, or manufacture of materials or products which decompose by detonation shall be permitted, except such as are specifically licensed by the City of Country Club Hills. Such materials shall include, but not be confined to, all primary explosives such as lead oxide, lead styphnate, and tetracaine; all high explosives such as TNT, RDX, HM, PETN, and picric acid; propellants and components thereof such as nitrocellulose, black powder, boron hydrides, hydrazide and its derivatives; pyrotechnics and fireworks such as magnesium powder, potassium chlorate and potassium nitrate; blasting explosives such as dynamite and nitro-glycerine; unstable compounds such as acidulates, tetrazoles, perchloric acid, perchlorates, chlorates, hydrogen peroxide in concentrations greater than thirty-five percent; and nuclear fuels, fissionable materials and products and reactor elements such as Uranium 235 and Plutonium 239.

All activities involving the manufacturing, fabricating, assembly, repairing, storing, cleaning, servicing, and testing materials, products and goods shall be within completely enclosed buildings, or may be out of doors if completely screened by a solid wall or uniformly painted solid fence at least 2.5 meters (8') in height, if there is no open storage at a greater height than that of the enclosing fence.

No buildings, structures, or parcel of land shall be used for the manufacturing, fabricating, assembly, repairing, storing, cleaning or servicing of materials, products, or goods, within one hundred feet of any lot line of a lot located in a residence district.

Any use established in a manufacturing district which involves the manufacturing, fabricating, assembly, repairing, storing, cleaning, servicing, or testing of materials, goods, or products, shall be operated in such manner as to comply with applicable performance standards governing noise, smoke, particular matter, toxic or noxious matter, odors, glare or heat. Compliance with the applicable performance standards shall be based upon a certification from a testing laboratory selected from a panel approved by the City Council. Site plans detailing use should be presented to the City Council for review.

The floor area ratio shall not exceed 1.5.

Building height shall not exceed 12.2 meters (40 feet).

A green belt buffer zone shall be provided between all residential and manufacturing areas. This green belt buffer zone shall contain adequate screening such as trees, shrubs, hedges, walls, fences, etc. and shall be approved by the City Council. The green belt buffer zone may fall within the rear yard and side yard set back area.

All yards adjacent to residential districts and across the street from residential districts shall have minimum depths and widths of 12.2 meters (40 feet).

Only the following uses are permitted and certification of operations conforming with performance standards required by this Article shall be furnished upon request of the Zoning Administrator.

Animal Hospitals Automobile Service Stations Boat Showrooms.

Building Material Sales Cartage and Express Facilities Contractors' Shops and Outdoor Storage Currency Exchanges.

Dry Cleaning, Dyeing and Rug Cleaning Establishment.

Frozen Food Lockers Fuel and Ice Sales Garages, Public.

Greenhouses Without restriction as to gross floor area.

Heliports.

Laundries With no limitation on the number of employees Linen, Towels, Diaper and other similar supply services Machinery Sales Establishments.

Mail Order Sales and Warehousing Monument Sales Establishments Motor Vehicle Sales.

Open-sales Lots Packaging and Crating Parking Lots, Commercial.

Printing and Publishing Establishments.

Public Utility and Public Services Uses, including Electric Substations, Railroad Rights-of-Way, Telephone Exchanges, microwave relay towers, telephone transmission equipment buildings, Transit and Public Transportation facilities including shelters, terminals, parking areas and other similar uses.

Research and Testing Laboratories.

Storage, Warehousing and Wholesale Establishments.

Accessory Uses to the above permitted uses.

Any use concerned with the operation of an establishment for the manufacturing, assembly, fabricating, repairing, storing, cleaning, servicing, or testing of materials, goods, or products, provided operation standards of such use conform with applicable regulations and performance standards set forth in this Article.

Wireless Communication Service Facilities.

Places of Public Worship, Convents, Monasteries, Rectories, Parish Houses, Parsonages.

Planned developments, manufacturing. Theological Schools and accessory uses.

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 noise shall be subject to the performance standards hereinafter prescribed, provided that such noises shall be capable of being accurately measured with such equipment. Noises capable of being so measured, for the purposes 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 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 on the boundary of a residence or commercial district shall the sound intensity level of any individual operation or plant (other than the operation of motor vehicles or other transportation facilities) exceed the decibel levels in the designated octave bands shown on the following table:

Smoke and Particular Matter. The emission of smoke or particulate matter in such manner or quantity as to endanger or be detrimental to the public health, safety, comfort or welfare, is, hereby, declared to be a public nuisance and shall henceforth be unlawful. For the purpose of grading the density of smoke, the Ringelmann Chart, published and used by the United States Bureau of Mines shall be employed.

The emission of smoke or particulate matter of a density greater than No. 2 on the Ringlemann Chart is prohibited at all times, except as otherwise provided hereinafter.

The emission from all sources within any lot area of particulate matter containing more than ten percent by weight of particles having a particle diameter larger than forty-four microns is prohibited. Dust and other types of air pollution, borne by the wing from such sources as storage areas, yards, roads, and the like within lot boundaries, shall be kept to a minimum by appropriate landscaping, paving, oiling, fencing, or other acceptable means. Emission of particulate matter from such sources, in excess of the weight limitation hereinafter specified, is prohibited.

The emission of more than eight smoke units per hour per stack is prohibited, including smoke of a density in excess of Ringelmann No. 2. However, during one one-hour period in each 24-hour day, each stack may emit up to sixteen smoke units when blowing soot or cleaning fires. Only during fire-cleaning periods, however, shall smoke of Ringelmann No. 3 be permitted, and then for not more than three minutes.

Toxic or Noxious Matter. No use shall for any period of time discharge across the boundaries of the lot wherein it is located 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 property or business.

Odors. The emission of odorous matter in such a quantity as to be readily detectable at any point along lot lines, or as to produce a public nuisance or hazard beyond lot lines is prohibited.

Glare or Heat. Any operation producing intense glare or heat shall be performed within a completely enclosed building in such a manner as not to create a public nuisance or hazard along lot lines.