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Downers Grove City Zoning Code

ARTICLE 28

V Allowed Uses

Sec 28.5.010 Allowed Uses

  1. Use Table. Principal uses are allowed in base zoning districts in accordance with Table 5-1.
  2. Understanding the Use Table
    1. Uses. Uses are listed in the first column of Table 5-1. See DGMC Section 28.5.020 for an explanation of the use categorization system.
    2. Permitted and Special Uses
      1. Uses identified with a “P” are permitted as-of-right in the subject zoning district.
      2. Uses identified with an “S” may be allowed in the subject zoning district if reviewed and approved in accordance with the special use procedures of DGMC Section 28.12.050.
      3. Permitted and special uses are subject to compliance with identified supplemental regulations and all other applicable regulations of this zoning ordinance.
    3. Prohibited Uses. Uses identified with an “–” are prohibited. Uses that are not listed in the table and that cannot reasonably be interpreted to fall within one of the use categories described in DGMC Section 28.5.020 are also prohibited, as determined by the Community Development Director in accordance with DGMC Section 28.5.020(d).
    4. Supplemental Regulations and Specific Limitations. The “supplemental regulations” column identifies additional regulations that apply to some uses. In addition, some uses may be subject to “specific limitations,” which are identified by a bracketed number (e.g., “[1]”). Corresponding limitations are listed immediately following the table in DGMC Section 28.5.010(d). Compliance with supplemental regulations and specific limitations is required for permitted and special uses.
  3. Accessory Uses. Allowed accessory uses, such as home occupations, are not identified in Table 5-1. Customary accessory uses are permitted in conjunction with allowed principal uses, subject to compliance with all applicable accessory use regulations of DGMC Section 28.6.010.
  4. Specific Limitations


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HISTORY
Amended by Ord. 5832 ZO - Cannabis on 12/8/2020
Amended by Ord. 5868 ZO Medical Facilities on 6/8/2021
Amended by Ord. 6116 Fairview Focus Area on 4/16/2025

Sec 28.5.020 Use Categorization System

This Section establishes and describes the use categorization system used to classify principal uses in this zoning ordinance.

  1. Use Categories. This zoning ordinance classifies principal land uses into eight (8) major groupings. These major groupings are referred to as “use categories.” The use categories are as follows:
    1. Residential. See DGMC Section 28.5.030.
    2. Public, Civic and Institutional. See DMGC Section 28.5.040.
    3. Commercial. See DGMC Section 28.5.050.
    4. Wholesale, Distribution and Storage. See DMMC Section 28.5.060.
    5. Industrial. See DGMC Section 28.5.070.
    6. Recycling. See DGMC Section 28.5.080.
    7. Agricultural. See DGMC Section 28.5.090.
    8. Other. See DGMC Section 28.5.100.
  2. Use Subcategories. Each use category is further divided into more specific “subcategories.” Use subcategories classify principal land uses and activities based on common functional, product or physical characteristics, such as the type and amount of activity, the type of customers or residents, how goods or services are sold or delivered and site conditions.
  3. Specific Use Types. Some use subcategories are further broken down to identify specific types of uses that are regulated differently than the subcategory as a whole.
  4. Determination of Use Categories and Subcategories
    1. The Community Development Director is authorized to classify uses on the basis of the use category, subcategory and specific use type descriptions of this Chapter.
    2. When a use cannot be reasonably classified into a use category, subcategory or specific use type, or appears to fit into multiple categories, subcategories or specific use types, the Community Development Director is authorized to determine the most similar and thus most appropriate use category, subcategory or specific use type based on the actual or projected characteristics of the principal use or activity in relationship to the use category, subcategory and specific use type descriptions provided in this Section. In making such determinations, the Community Development Director must consider:
      1. the types of activities that will occur in conjunction with the use;
      2. the types of equipment and processes to be used;
      3. the existence, number and frequency of residents, customers or employees;
      4. parking demands associated with the use; and
      5. other factors deemed relevant to a use determination.
    3. If a use can reasonably be classified in multiple categories, subcategories or specific use types, the Community Development Director must categorize the use in the category, subcategory or specific use type that provides the most exact, narrowest and appropriate “fit.”
    4. If the Community Development Director is unable to determine the appropriate use category for a proposed use, the Community Development Director is authorized to classify the use as a prohibited use and deny permits and certificates for establishment of the proposed use. This decision may be appealed to the Planning and Zoning Commission in accordance with appeal procedures of DGMC Section 28.12.100.
HISTORY
Amended by Ord. 6058 PC & ZBA on 11/1/2024

Sec 28.5.030 Residential Use Category

This category includes uses that provide living accommodations for one (1) or more persons. The residential use subcategories are as follows:

  1. Household Living. Residential occupancy of a dwelling unit by a household. When dwelling units are rented, tenancy is arranged on a month-to-month or longer basis. Uses where tenancy may be arranged for a shorter period are not considered residential; they are considered a form of lodging. The following are household living specific use types:
    1. Detached House. A detached house is a principal residential building occupied by one dwelling unit located on a single lot with private yards on all sides. Detached houses are not attached to and do not abut other dwelling units.
    2. Attached House. An attached house is a dwelling unit that is attached to one or more dwelling units, each of which is joined together by party wall or walls or is located on its own lot with a common or abutting wall along the dwelling units’ shared lot lines. Each dwelling unit has its own external entrance.
    3. Two-unit House. A two-unit is a residential building occupied by two (2) dwelling units, both of which are located on a single lot. The dwelling units are attached and may be located on separate floors or side-by-side.
    4. Apartment/condo. An apartment/condo building is a residential building on a single lot that is occupied by three (3) or more dwelling units that share common walls and/or common floors/ceilings.
    5. Manufactured Housing Unit. A manufactured housing unit is a residential building that complies with the National Manufactured Housing Construction and Safety Standards Act of 1974 (42 U.S.C. §§5401, et seq.). Manufactured housing units are expressly prohibited in the Village.
    6. Mobile Home. A vehicle without motive power used or adaptable for living, sleeping, business or storage purposes, having no foundation other than wheels, blocks, skids, jacks, horses, or skirting, that does not meet building code requirements and has been or reasonably may be equipped with wheels or other devices for transporting the structure from place to place. Mobile homes are expressly prohibited in the Village.
    7. Mobile Home Park. A mobile home park is a lot upon which mobile homes or manufactured housing units are available for lease or upon which spaces for mobile homes or manufactured housing units are available for lease. Mobile home parks are expressly prohibited in the Village.
    8. Caretaker/Security Dwelling. A single dwelling unit that is accessory to an allowed use and that is occupied solely by an individual who is responsible for maintenance or security in association with the principal non-residential use of the property.
  2. Group Living. Residential occupancy of a building or any portion of a building by a group other than a household. Group living uses typically provide communal kitchen/dining facilities. Examples of group living uses include group homes, convents, monasteries, nursing homes, assisted living facilities, sheltered care facilities, retirement centers, homeless centers, shelters and halfway houses. The group living subcategories are as follows:
    1. Group Home. A detached house shared by persons with disabilities who live together as a single housekeeping unit in a long-term, household-like environment in which staff persons provide care, education, and participation in community activities for the residents with a primary goal of enabling the resident to live as independently as possible. Group homes do not include pre-release, work-release, probationary, or other programs that serve as an alternative to incarceration. See also DGMC Section 28.6.050.
    2. Nursing Home. A “long-term care facility,” as defined in 210 ILCS 45/1-113, that provides skilled nursing care. See also DGMC Section 28.6.080.
    3. Sheltered Care. A “long-term care facility,” as defined in 210 ILCS 45/1-113, that provides maintenance and personal care.
HISTORY
Amended by Ord. 5828 ZO revisions 2020 on 10/20/2020

Sec 28.5.040 Public, Civic And Institutional Use Category

This category includes public, quasi-public and private uses that provide unique services that are of benefit to the public at-large. The public, civic and institutional subcategories are as follows:

  1. Aircraft Landing Area. Areas used or made available for the landing or takeoff of aircraft, including areas classified as a restricted landing areas by the Illinois Department of Transportation Division of Aeronautics, and including any areas that are used or suitable for use for structures or facilities incidental to aircraft services.
  2. Cemetery. Land or structures used for burial or permanent storage of the dead or their cremated remains. Typical uses include cemeteries and mausoleums. Also includes pet cemeteries.
  3. College or University. Institutions of higher learning that offer courses of general or specialized study and are authorized to grant academic degrees.
  4. Community Center. A structure, including its surrounding premises, that is owned, leased or otherwise controlled by a unit of local government or a school district and that contains rooms or other facilities limited to use for purposes of meetings, gatherings or other functions or activities carried on or performed by or under the supervision of a unit of local government, a school district or a civic, educational, religious or charitable organization. The authorization for the establishment of a community center may include authorization for the incidental and accessory sale or resale of food, merchandise or services in connection with and in support of the principal activity or function being carried on or performed by such unit of local government, school district or organization.
  5. Fraternal Organization. The use of a building or lot by a not-for-profit organization that restricts access to its facility to bona fide, annual dues-paying members and their occasional guests and where the primary activity is a service not carried on as a business enterprise.
  6. Governmental Facility. Uses related to the administration of local, state or federal government services or functions.
  7. Hospital. Uses providing medical or surgical care to patients and offering inpatient (overnight) care.
  8. Library. Collections of books, manuscripts and similar materials for free public lending, studying and reading.
  9. Museum or Cultural Facility. Museum-like preservation and exhibition of objects in one (1)or more of the arts and sciences, gallery exhibitions of works of art and similar institutions.
  10. Natural Resources Preservation. Undeveloped land left in a natural state for specific use as visual open space or environmental purposes. Typical uses include wildlife or nature preserves, arboretums and flood management projects.
  11. Parks and Recreation. Recreational, social or multi-purpose uses associated with public parks and open spaces, including playgrounds, playfields, play courts, swimming pools, community centers and other facilities typically associated with public parks and open space areas. Also includes public and private golf courses and country clubs.
  12. Religious Assembly. Religious services involving public assembly that customarily occur in churches, synagogues, temples, mosques and other facilities used for religious worship. See also DGMC Section 28.6.120.
  13. Safety Service. Facilities provided by the Village, tate or federal government that provide fire, police or life protection, together with the incidental storage and maintenance of necessary vehicles. Typical uses include fire stations and police stations.
  14. School. Schools at the primary, elementary, junior high or high school level that provide basic, compulsory state-mandated education.
  15. Utilities and Public Service Facility
    1. Minor
      1. Infrastructure services that need to be located in or close to the area where the service is provided. Minor utilities and public service facilities generally do not have regular employees at the site and typically have few if any impacts on surrounding areas. Typical uses include water and sewer pump stations; gas regulating stations; underground electric distribution substations; electric transformers; water conveyance systems; stormwater facilities and conveyance systems; telephone switching equipment and emergency communication warning/broadcast facilities.
      2. The production, collection or distribution of renewable energy, water or other similar resources at a neighborhood, district or campus scale are classified as minor utilities and public service facilities. This includes distributed energy facilities that produce or distribute energy from renewable sources and neighborhood stormwater facilities.
      3. Energy production systems that generate energy from the byproducts of the principal use are considered accessory uses, including net metered installations and installations that generate power to sell at wholesale to the power grid.
    2. Major. Infrastructure services that typically have substantial visual or operational impacts on nearby areas. Typical uses include but are not limited to water and wastewater treatment facilities, high-voltage electric substations, utility-scale power generation facilities (including wind, solar and other renewable and nonrenewable energy sources), sanitary landfills and utility-scale water storage facilities, such as water towers and reservoirs.
  16. Wireless Telecommunications. Towers, antennas, equipment, equipment buildings and other facilities used in the provision of wireless communication services. The following are specific types of wireless telecommunications uses:
    1. Freestanding Towers. A structure intended to support equipment that is used to transmit and/or receive telecommunications signals including monopoles and guyed and lattice construction steel structures. See also DGMC Section 28.6.170.
    2. Building or Tower-Mounted Antennas. The physical device that is attached to a freestanding tower, building or other structure, through which electromagnetic, wireless telecommunications signals authorized by the Federal Communications Commission are transmitted or received. See also DGMC Section 28.6.170.

Sec 28.5.050 Commercial Use Category

The commercial use category includes uses that provide a business service or involve the selling, leasing or renting of merchandise to the general public. The commercial use subcategories are as follows:

  1. Adult Entertainment Establishment. Adult entertainment establishments are defined in the village’s adult use licensing ordinance (see Chapter 8 of this Code). See also DGMC Section 28.6.020.
  2. Animal Service. Uses that provide goods and services for care of companion animals.
    1. Grooming. Grooming of dogs, cats and similar companion animals, including dog bathing and clipping salons and pet grooming shops.
    2. Boarding or Shelter/Kennel. Animal shelters, care services and kennel services for dogs, cats and companion animals, including boarding kennels, pet resorts/hotels, pet day care, pet adoption centers, dog training centers and animal rescue shelters. For purposes of this ordinance, the keeping of more than four (4) dogs, cats or similar household companion animals over four (4) months of age or the keeping of more than two (2) such animals for compensation or sale is deemed a boarding or shelter-related animal service use and is allowed only in those zoning districts that allow such uses.
    3. Veterinary Care. Animal hospitals and veterinary clinics.
  3. Assembly and Entertainment. Uses that provide gathering places for participant or spectator recreation, entertainment or other assembly activities. Assembly and entertainment uses may provide incidental food or beverage service. Typical uses include arenas, billiard centers, video game arcades, auditoriums, bowling centers, cinemas and theaters. The following uses are included in the assembly and entertainment use subcategory but are expressly prohibited in the Village, regardless of any underlying or overlay zoning designation:
    1. off-track wagering locations (as defined in 230 ILCS 5/1); and
    2. hookah lounges, which are defined as facilities or locations whose business operation, whether as a principal use or as an accessory use, includes the smoking of tobacco or other substances through one or more hookah pipes (also commonly referred to as a hookah, waterpipe, shisha or narghile), including but not limited to establishments known variously as hookah bars, hookah parlors or hookah cafés.
  4. Broadcast or Recording Studio. Uses that provide for audio or video production, recording or broadcasting.
  5. Commercial Service. Uses that provide for consumer or business services and for the repair and maintenance of a wide variety of products.
    1. Building Service. Uses that provide maintenance and repair services for all structural and mechanical elements of structures, as well as the exterior spaces of a premise. Typical uses include contractor offices, janitorial, landscape maintenance, extermination, plumbing, electrical, HVAC, window cleaning and similar services.
    2. Business Support Service. Uses that provide personnel services, printing, copying, photographic services or communication services to businesses or consumers. Typical uses include employment agencies, copy and print shops, caterers, telephone answering services and photo developing labs.
    3. Consumer Maintenance and Repair Service. Uses that provide maintenance, cleaning and repair services for consumer goods on a site other than that of the customer (i.e., customers bring goods to the site of the repair/maintenance business). Typical uses include laundry and dry cleaning pick-up shops, tailors, taxidermists, dressmakers, shoe repair, picture framing shops, locksmiths, vacuum repair shops, electronics repair shops and similar establishments. Business that offer repair and maintenance service technicians who visit customers’ homes or places of business are classified as a “building service.”
    4. Personal Improvement Service. Uses that provide a variety of non-medical services associated with frequent, recurrent, and instructional needs.
      1. General Personal Improvement Services. Uses serving individual necessities, such as personal grooming and general well-being. Typical uses include barbers, beauty and nail salons, day spas, microblading and businesses purporting to offer fortune-telling or psychic services.
      2. Health and Fitness Services. Uses that provide physical fitness services and leisure time activities. Typical uses include health clubs, yoga studios, martial arts studios, dance studios, and gymnastics studios
      3. Studio or Instructional Services. Uses in an enclosed building that focus on providing education, individual or group instruction or training in music, drama, fine arts, arts studios, language or similar activities. Also includes artist studios and photography studios.
      4. Massage Therapy Services. Establishments whose primary business is that of providing massage – defined as any method of pressure on or friction against, or stroking, kneading, rubbing, tapping, pounding, vibrating or stimulating of the external soft parts of the body with the hands or with aid of any mechanical electrical apparatus or appliances with or without rubbing alcohol, liniments, antiseptics, oils, powder, creams, lotions, ointments or other similar preparations used in this practice, under such circumstances that it is reasonably expected that the person to whom treatment is provided, or some third party on such persons behalf, will pay money or give other consideration or any gratuity therefor. See also DGMC Section 28.6.070.
      5. Tattoo and body piercing establishments as defined in 410 ILCS 54/1.
    5. Research Service. Uses engaged in scientific research and testing services leading to the development of new products and processes. Such uses resemble office buildings or campuses and do not involve the mass production, distribution or sale of products. Research services do not produce odors, dust, noise, vibration or other external impacts that are detectable beyond the property lines of the subject property.
  6. Day Care. Uses providing care, protection and supervision for children or adults on a regular basis away from their primary residence for less than twenty-four (24) hours per day. Examples include state-licensed child care centers, preschools, nursery schools, head start programs, after-school programs and adult day care facilities. Day care expressly includes state-accredited adult day care facilities and facilities for child care, as defined in the Illinois Child Care Act.
    1. Day Care Center. A facility licensed by the State of Illinois that provides day care for more than eight (8) children or any number of adults. See also Sec. 6.030.
    2. Day Care Home. A dwelling unit licensed by the State of Illinois in which day care is provided for a maximum of eight (8) children, excluding all natural, adopted and foster children of the residents of the dwelling unit. See also DGMC Section 28.6.030.
  7. Eating and Drinking Establishments
    1. Restaurant. Uses that prepare and serve food and beverages for on- or off-premise consumption as their principal business. Typical uses include cafés, restaurants, cafeterias, ice cream/yogurt shops, coffee shops and similar establishments, which may include a bar area that is customarily incidental and subordinate to the principal use as an eating establishment and that complies with Chapter 3 of this Code.
    2. Wine and/or Beer Boutique. An establishment where the retail sale of wine and/or beer, wine and/or beer tastings and wine and/or beer education seminars/classes are conducted on a regular basis and on-site consumption of wine and beer is allowed subject to provisions of the wine and/or beer boutique license classification (see Chapter 3 of this Code).
  8. Financial Service. Uses related to the exchange, lending, borrowing and safekeeping of money. Typical examples are banks, credit unions and consumer loan establishments. All of the following are also included in the financial service use subcategory but are expressly prohibited in the Village, regardless of any underlying or overlay zoning designation:
    1. pawnshops and pawn brokers (as defined in 205 ILCS 510 and in Chapter 8 of this Code);
    2. establishments that provide (vehicle) title-secured loans or payday loans (as defined in 815 ILCS 122) and similar services; and
    3. establishments primarily engaged in buying gold or other precious metals (e.g., cash-for-gold businesses).
  9. Funeral or Mortuary Service. Uses that provide services related to the death of humans or companion animals, including funeral homes, mortuaries, crematoriums and similar uses.
  10. Lodging. Uses that provide temporary lodging for less than thirty (30) days where rents are charged by the day or by the week. Lodging uses may provide food or entertainment on premises.
    1. Bed and Breakfast. An owner-occupied private residence that offers sleeping accommodations to guests for rent, in the owner’s principal residence. Food may only be served to overnight guests of the bed and breakfast establishment.
  11. Office. Uses in an enclosed building, customarily performed in an office, that focus on providing executive, management, administrative, professional or medical services. Specific use types include:
    1. Business and Professional Office. Office uses for companies and non-governmental organizations. Examples include corporate office, law offices, architectural firms, therapists, counselors, insurance companies and other executive, management or administrative offices for businesses and corporations. See also DGMC Section 28.6.090.
    2. Medical, Dental and Health Practitioner. Office uses related to diagnosis and treatment of human patients’ illnesses, injuries and physical maladies that can be performed in an office setting with no overnight care. Surgical, rehabilitation and other medical centers that do not involve overnight patient stays are included in this subcategory, as are medical and dental laboratories.
  12. Parking, Non-Accessory. Parking that is not provided to comply with minimum off-street parking requirements and that is not provided exclusively to serve occupants of or visitors to a particular use, but rather is available to the public at-large. A parking facility that provides both accessory and non-accessory parking will be classified as non-accessory parking if it leases twenty-five percent (25%) or more of its spaces to non-occupants of or persons other than visitors to a particular use.
  13. Retail Sales. Uses involving the sale, lease or rental of new or used goods to the ultimate consumer within an enclosed structure, unless otherwise specified.
    1. Convenience Goods. Retail sales uses that sell or otherwise provide: (1) sundry goods; (2) products for personal grooming and for the day-to-day maintenance of personal health or (3) food or beverages for off-premise consumption, including grocery stores and similar uses that provide incidental and accessory food and beverage service as part of their primary retail sales business. Typical uses include drug stores, grocery and specialty food stores, wine or liquor stores, gift shops, newsstands and florists.
    2. Consumer Shopping Goods. Retail sales uses that sell or otherwise provide wearing apparel, fashion accessories, furniture, household appliances and similar consumer goods, large and small, functional and decorative, for use, entertainment, comfort or aesthetics. Typical uses include clothing stores, department stores, appliance stores, TV and electronics stores, bike shops, book stores, costume rental stores, uniform supply stores, stationery stores, art galleries, hobby shops, furniture stores, pet stores and pet supply stores, shoe stores, antique shops, second-hand stores, record stores, toy stores, sporting goods stores, variety stores, video stores, musical instrument stores, office supplies and office furnishing stores and wig shops. Stores whose primary business is the sale of guns and/or firearm supplies are expressly prohibited in the Village.
    3. Building Supplies and Equipment. Retail sales uses that sell or otherwise provide goods to repair, maintain or visually enhance a structure or premises. Typical uses include hardware stores, home improvement stores, paint and wallpaper supply stores and garden supply stores.
  14. Self-service Storage Facility. An enclosed use that provides separate, small-scale, self-service storage facilities leased or rented to individuals or small businesses. Facilities are designated to accommodate only interior access to storage lockers or drive-up access only from regular size passenger vehicles and two-axle non-commercial vehicles. See also DGMC Section 28.6.130.
  15. Trade School. Uses in an enclosed building that focus on teaching the skills needed to perform a particular job. Examples include schools of cosmetology, modeling academies, computer training facilities, vocational schools, administrative business training facilities and similar uses. Truck driving schools are classified as “trucking and transportation terminals” (wholesale, distribution and storage use category).
  16. Vehicle Sales and Service. Uses that provide for the sale, rental, maintenance or repair of new or used vehicles and vehicular equipment. The vehicle sales and service subcategory includes the following specific use types:
    1. Commercial Vehicle Repair and Maintenance. Uses, excluding vehicle paint finishing shops, that repair, install or maintain the mechanical components or the bodies of large trucks, mass transit vehicles, large construction or agricultural equipment, aircraft or similar large vehicles and vehicular equipment. Includes truck stops and truck fueling facilities.
    2. Commercial Vehicle Sales and Rentals. Uses that provide for the sale or rental of large trucks, large construction or agricultural equipment, aircraft, or similar large vehicles and vehicular equipment.
    3. Fueling Station. Uses engaged in retail sales of personal or commercial vehicle fuels, including natural gas fueling stations and rapid vehicle charging stations and battery exchange facilities for electric vehicles. See also DGMC Section 28.6.040.
    4. Personal Vehicle Repair and Maintenance. Uses engaged in repairing, installing or maintaining the mechanical components of autos, small trucks or vans, motorcycles, motor homes or recreational vehicles including recreational boats. Also includes uses that wash, clean or otherwise protect the exterior or interior surfaces of these vehicles. Does not include vehicle body or paint finishing shops. See also DGMC Section 28.6.100.
    5. Personal Vehicle Sales and Rentals. Uses that provide for the sale or rental of new or used autos, small trucks or vans, trailers, motorcycles, motor homes or recreational vehicles including recreational watercraft. Typical examples include automobile dealers, auto malls, car rental agencies and moving equipment rental establishments (e.g., U-haul).
    6. Vehicle Body and Paint Finishing Shop. Uses that primarily conduct vehicle body work and repairs or that apply paint to the exterior or interior surfaces of vehicles by spraying, dipping, flow-coating or other similar means.
    7. Automobile Dealership Off-Site Storage. A use that provides for the storage of for sale personal vehicles that are parked on a separate parcel that is not contiguous to the principal business location. See also DGMC Section 28.6.190.

(Ord. No. 5706, 7/10/18; Ord. No. 5571, §2, 11/22/16)

HISTORY
Amended by Ord. 5828 ZO revisions 2020 on 10/20/2020
Amended by Ord. 6004 ZO Omnibus 2023 on 10/24/2023

Sec 28.5.060 Wholesale, Distribution And Storage Use Category

This category includes uses that provide and distribute goods in large quantities, principally to retail sales, commercial services or industrial establishments. Long-term and short-term storage of supplies, equipment, commercial goods and personal items is included. The wholesale, distribution & storage subcategories are as follows:

  1. Equipment and Materials Storage, Outdoor. Uses related to outdoor storage of equipment, products or materials, whether or not stored in containers.
  2. Trucking and Transportation Terminal. Uses engaged in the dispatching and long-term or short-term storage of trucks, buses and other vehicles, including parcel service delivery vehicles, taxis and limousines. Minor repair and maintenance of vehicles stored on the premises is also included. Includes uses engaged in the moving of household or office furniture, appliances and equipment from one location to another, including the temporary on-site storage of those items.
  3. Warehouse. Uses conducted within a completely enclosed building that are engaged in long-term and short-term storage of goods and that do not meet the definition of a “self-service storage facility” or a “trucking and transportation terminal.”
  4. Wholesale Sales and Distribution. Uses engaged in the wholesale sales, bulk storage and distribution of goods. Such uses may also include incidental retail sales and wholesale showrooms. This subcategory expressly includes the following uses: bottled gas and fuel oil sales, ice distribution centers, monument sales, storage building sales, vending machine sales, auctioneers and frozen food lockers.

Sec 28.5.070 Industrial Use Category

This category includes uses that produce goods from extracted and raw materials or from recyclable or previously prepared materials, including the design, storage and handling of these products and the materials from which they are produced. The industrial subcategories are:

  1. Artisan Industrial. On-site production of goods by hand manufacturing, involving the use of hand tools and small-scale, light mechanical equipment in a completely enclosed building with no outdoor operations or storage. Typical uses include woodworking and cabinet shops, ceramic studios, jewelry manufacturing and similar types of arts and crafts or very small-scale manufacturing uses that have no negative external impacts on surrounding properties.
  2. Limited Industrial. Manufacturing and industrial uses that process, fabricate, assemble, treat or package finished parts or products without the use of explosive or petroleum materials. Uses in this subcategory do not involve the assembly of large equipment and machinery and have very limited external impacts in terms of noise, vibration, odor, hours of operation and truck and commercial vehicle traffic.
  3. General Industrial. Manufacturing and industrial uses that process, fabricate, assemble or treat materials for the production of large equipment and machines as well as industrial uses that because of their scale or method of operation regularly produce odors, dust, noise, vibration, truck/commercial vehicle traffic or other external impacts that are detectable beyond the property lines of the subject property.
  4. Intensive Industrial. Manufacturing and industrial uses that regularly use hazardous chemicals or procedures or produce hazardous byproducts, including the following: manufacturing of acetylene, cement, lime, gypsum or plaster-of-Paris, chlorine, corrosive acid or fertilizer, insecticides, disinfectants, poisons, explosives, paint, lacquer, varnish, petroleum products, coal products, plastic and synthetic resins and radioactive materials. This subcategory also includes petrochemical tank farms, gasification plants, smelting, asphalt and concrete plants and tanneries. Intensive industrial uses have high potential for external impacts on the surrounding area in terms of noise, vibration, odor, hours of operation and truck/commercial vehicle traffic.
  5. Junk or Salvage Yard. An area or building where waste or scrap materials are bought, sold, exchanged, stored, baled, packed, disassembled or handled for reclamation, disposal or other like purposes, including but not limited to scrap iron and other metals, paper, rags, rubber tires and bottles.

Sec 28.5.080 Recycling Use Category

This category includes uses that collect, store or process recyclable material for the purpose of marketing or reusing the material in the manufacturing of new, reused or reconstituted products.

  1. Recyclable Material Drop-off Facility. An establishment that accepts consumer recyclable commodities directly from the consuming party and stores them temporarily before transferring them to recyclable material processing facilities. Recyclable commodities shall be limited to non-hazardous, nonspecial, homogeneous, nonputresable materials such as dry paper, glass, cans or plastic. The term "recyclable material drop-off facility" as used in this Zoning Ordinance shall not include general construction or demolition debris facilities, as defined in 415 ILCS 5/3.160, and/or transfer stations, as defined by 415 ILCS 5/3.500, facilities located within a structure principally devoted to another use, facilities temporarily located on a zoning lot under authority of a temporary use, and facilities for collecting used motor oil which are necessary to an automobile service station. Establishments that process recyclable material are classified as “recyclable material processing facilities.” See also DGMC Section 28.6.110.
  2. Recyclable Material Processing. Establishments that receive and process consumer recyclable commodities for subsequent use in the secondary market.

Sec 28.5.090 Agricultural Use Category

This category includes uses such as gardens, farms and orchards that involve the raising and harvesting of food and non-food crops.

  1. Agriculture, Animal. The (principal or accessory) use of land for the keeping or raising of farm animals. Animal agriculture is expressly prohibited in the village, except in accordance with Chapter 5 of this Code.
  2. Agriculture, Crop. The use of land for growing, raising, or marketing of plants to produce food, feed, or fiber commodities or non-food crops. Examples of crop agriculture include cultivation and tillage of the soil and growing and harvesting of agricultural or horticultural commodities. Crop agriculture does not include community gardens or the raising or keeping of farm animals.
  3. Community Garden. An area managed and maintained by a group of individuals to grow and harvest food crops or non-food crops (e.g., flowers) for personal or group consumption, for donation or for sale that is occasional and incidental to the growing and harvesting of food crops. A community garden area may be divided into separate garden plots or orchard areas for cultivation by one or more individuals or may be farmed collectively by members of the group. A community garden may include common areas (e.g., hand tool storage sheds) maintained and used by the group. Community gardens may be principal or accessory uses and may be located at grade (outdoors), on a roof or within a building. Community gardens do not include the raising or keeping of farm animals.

Sec 28.5.100 Other Use Category

This category includes uses that do not fit the other use categories.

  1. Drive-in or Drive-through Facility. Any use with drive-through windows or drive-through lanes or that otherwise offer service to the occupants of motor vehicles. Typical uses include drive-through restaurants, drive-through pharmacies and drive-in restaurants.
  2. Medical Cannabis Cultivation Center, Medical Cannabis Dispensing Organization (as defined in 410 ILCS 130/1 et seq.) and Adult Use Cannabis Business Establishments are also subject to the following:
    1. Prohibited adjacent to residential districts.
    2. Requires a one thousand three hundred foot (1,300') separation from pre-existing daycare centers, schools and public parks.
    3. A maximum limit of three (3) total special use permits may be issued to Adult Use Cannabis Dispensing Organizations and Medical Cannabis Dispensing Organizations at any given time.
    4. Submission of a parking plan, subject to review and approval by the Community Development Director that denotes additional parking (including off-site) which can be used to meet the increased parking demands of the dispensary upon its initial opening.

(Ord. No. 5804, 12/17/19)

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