In the application of this code, the rules and definitions contained in this section shall be observed and applied except when the context clearly indicates otherwise; terms not defined in this section shall have their standard English dictionary meanings.
(A) Rules. Words denoting the masculine gender shall be deemed to include the feminine and neuter genders. Words used in the present tense shall include the future, and words used in the singular number shall include the plural number, and the plural, the singular. The word "shall" is mandatory and not discretionary; the word "may" is permissive. The word "lot" shall include the words "plot," "piece," and "parcel." The phrase "used for" shall include the phrases "arranged for," "designed for," "intended for," "maintained for" and "occupied for." The word "city" shall refer to and be interpreted to mean Greenville, Illinois. The following words and terms, wherever they occur in this code, shall be interpreted as herein defined.
(B) Definitions for this code.
ABANDONMENT. An action to give up one's rights or interests in property.
ABUTTING. A common lot line or district line (synonym for "adjacent" or "adjoining").
ACCESS WAY. A curb cut, ramp, driveway, or other means for providing vehicular access to an off-street parking or loading area.
ACCESSORY APARTMENT. A dwelling unit located within the principal dwelling, which is accessory, supplementary and secondary to the principal dwelling unit. May be constructed as an attached addition to the principal use or be occupied as an accessory to the principal use and is located within the same building as the principal dwelling unit.
ACCESSORY BUILDING OR STRUCTURE. A detached subordinate building or structure, the use of which is customarily incidental to that of the main use of the land, and which is located on the same lot with the main building or use. Accessory uses shall include garages, carports, utility/tool sheds, greenhouses, tennis courts, swimming pools, decks, patios, and gazebos.
ACCESSORY DETACHED DWELLING UNIT. A dwelling unit that is accessory, supplementary and secondary to the principal dwelling, which may be constructed as an addition to the principal structure or as an accessory to the principal structure. An accessory dwelling unit is detached from the principal dwelling.
ACCESSORY USE. Any structure or use that is:
(a) Subordinate in size or purpose to the principal structure or use which is served; and
(b) Necessary or contributing to the comfort and convenience of the occupants of the principal structure or use served; and
(c) Located on the same lot as the principal structure or use served.
AGRICULTURE, FORESTRY, FISHING, AND HUNTING. These establishments grow crops, raise animals, harvest timber, and harvest fish and other animals from a farm, ranch, or their natural habitats. They may be described as farms, ranches, dairies, greenhouses, nurseries, orchards, or hatcheries. A farm, as an establishment, may be one or more tracts of land, which may be owned, leased, or rented by the farm operator. Farms may hire employees for a variety of tasks in the production process.
AISLE. A vehicular traffic-way within an off-street parking area, used as a means of access/egress from parking spaces.
ALLEY. A public access way which affords only a secondary means of access to abutting property and is not intended for general traffic circulation.
ALTER. As applied to a building or structure, a change or rearrangement in the structural parts or in the existing facilities, or an enlargement, whether by horizontal extensions or by increasing in height, or the moving from one location or position to another.
AMENDMENT. A change in the provisions of this code (including the district map), properly effected in accordance with state law and the procedures set forth herein.
AMPHITHEATER. Modern versions have fixed seating (about 40% of capacity) under a roof (but no walls) and the remaining spectators spread out on sloping lawns. They are very popular for summer music concerts.
AMUSEMENT OR THEME PARK. Amusement or theme parks operate a variety of attractions, such as mechanical rides, water rides, games, shows, theme exhibits, refreshment stands, and picnic grounds. These establishments may lease space to others on a concession basis.
AMUSEMENT, SPORTS OR RECREATION ESTABLISHMENT (NOT SPECIFICALLY ENUMERATED). Establishments in this category operate facilities offering activities (i.e. sports, recreation, amusement, or gambling) and provide services, such as facilitating amusement in places operated by others, operating recreational sports groups, and guiding tours (without transportation equipment). The following subcategories highlight particular establishment types. Note that this category does not cover all establishments providing recreational services; many are classified in other categories.
ANIMAL HOSPITAL. Any building, or portion thereof, designed or used for the care, observation, or treatment of domestic animals.
ANIMAL, WILD. Wild animals are those animals, fowl, reptiles, and fish of the North American Continent not domesticated such as bears, raccoons, squirrels, alligators, and Gila monsters; animals, fowl, reptiles, and fish from other continents shall automatically be considered wild.
ANIMALS, DOMESTIC. A domesticated animal is one which has extensively and historically been a part of a family or household for pleasure, companionship, and protection. Domesticated animals are household pets, and are inclusive of animals, reptiles and fish such as dogs, cats, parakeets, goldfish, and painted turtles.
ANIMALS, FARM. Farm animals are those which have historically been bred, reared, and utilized for the production of meat, wool, leather and similar products. This definition is inclusive of all farm animals, fowl, reptiles, and fish, such as horses, cattle, rabbits, sheep, geese, chickens, ducks, snakes, and catfish.
APARTMENT. A suite of rooms or a room in a building arranged and intended for a place of residence of a single family or a group of individuals living together as a single housekeeping unit, each with its own set of housekeeping facilities and usually leased as a dwelling.
APIARY AND OTHER RELATED STRUCTURES. This is a catch-all category for all specialized structures and facilities, such as the following: apiary, which is a bee house or a place where beehives are stored; dovecote, a pigeon or doves house that is usually set above ground; a duckhouse (for ducks), falconry, a facility for housing, training, and breeding birds of prey; etc.
AQUARIUM. An establishment where aquatic organisms are kept and exhibited.
ARCADE. These operate arcades and parlors (except gambling, billiard, or pool) for amusement.
AREA, GROSS. The entire area within the boundary lines of the territory proposed for subdivision, including the area to be dedicated for street and alley rights-of-way and public use.
AREA, NET. The entire area within the boundary lines of the territory proposed for subdivision, less the area to be dedicated for streets and alley rights-of-way and public use.
AREA OF ZONING LOT. The total horizontal area (square footage) within the property lines of a lot, excluding public streets and alleys, meeting the district requirement of this code.
ASSEMBLY AND CONSTRUCTION-TYPE PLANTS. A typical heavy manufacturing facility.
ASSISTED LIVING SERVICES. These services are provided by board-and-care establishments, such as adult foster care homes and adult care group homes. Services include daily activity assistance, such as dressing, grooming, bathing, etc. These establishments may be located in single-family homes and share the house with the care provider's family.
ATTACHED BUILDING. A building attached to another building by a common wall (such wall being a solid wall with or without windows and doors) and a common roof.
AUDITORIUM. A room, hall or building made a part of a church, theater, school, recreation building, or other building assigned to the gathering of persons as an audience, to hear lectures, plays and other presentations.
AUTOMOBILE AND TRAILER SALES AREA. An open area, other than a street, used for the display or sale of new or used automobiles or trailers, and where no repair work is done except for minor incidental repair of automobiles or trailers to be displayed and sold on the premises.
AUTOMOBILE PARKING AREA. A lot or part thereof used for the storage or parking of motor vehicles with or without the payment of rent or charges.
AUTOMOBILE PARKING FACILITIES. Any building, structure, land, right-of-way, equipment or facility used or useful in connection with the construction, enlargement, development, maintenance or operation of any area or building for off-street parking of motor vehicles.
AUTOMOBILE REPAIR AND SERVICE STRUCTURES. Includes service garages and other structures that have bays for automobile service. These are specialized structures for auto repair and service.
AUTOMOBILE SERVICE STATION. A building or premises or portion thereof used for the retail sale of gasoline, oil or other fuel, automotive parts, supplies, or accessories for motor vehicles and which may include, as an incidental use only, facilities used for polishing, greasing, washing or otherwise cleaning or light servicing of motor vehicles but not including liquefied petroleum gas distribution facilities.
AUTOMOTIVE WRECKING AND GRAVEYARDS, SALVAGE YARDS AND JUNKYARDS (JUNKYARD). Any premises where junk, articles or materials, including junked, wrecked or inoperable vehicles, that are ready for destruction or that have been collected are stored for salvage or conversion to some use. Also known as salvage yard.
AUTOMOBILE WRECKING YARD. Any place where two or more motor vehicles, not in running condition, or parts thereof, are stored in the open and are not being restored to operation, or any land, building or structure used for wrecking or storing of such motor vehicles or parts thereof, and including any used farm vehicles or farm machinery, or parts thereof, stored in the open and not being restored to operating conditions; and including the commercial salvaging of any other goods, articles or merchandise.
BARRIER (NATURAL OR ARTIFICIAL). Any street, highway, river, pond, canal, railroad, levee, embankment, screening by a fence or hedge, or similar obstruction.
BARS AND TAVERNS. These establishments, also known as bars, taverns, nightclubs or drinking places, primarily prepare and serve alcoholic beverages for immediate consumption. These establishments may also provide limited food and entertainment (primarily music) services.
BASEMENT. A story having more than one-half of its height below the average level of the adjoining ground.
BED AND BREAKFAST ESTABLISHMENT. A type of lodging that is smaller than a hotel and may be in a private residence licensed for guests which offers overnight accommodation and breakfast but usually does not offer other meals.
BEER, WINE, AND LIQUOR STORE (OFF PREMISES CONSUMPTION OF ALCOHOL). These establishments primarily retail packaged alcoholic beverages, such as ale, beer, wine, and liquor for consumption off premises.
BICYCLE, MOTORCYCLE, ALL-TERRAIN VEHICLE DEALERS. This class comprises establishments retailing new or used motorcycles, motor scooters, motor bikes, mopeds, and off-road all-terrain vehicles; or, in retailing these vehicles in combination with repair services and selling replacement parts and accessories.
BILLBOARD. Any single- or double-faced sign displaying messages or advertising not associated with the premises on which the sign is located or to which it is affixed.
BLOCK. An area of land entirely bounded by streets, highways, barriers, or ways (except alleys, pedestrian ways, or exterior boundaries of a subdivision unless exterior boundary is a street, highway, or way) or a combination of streets, public parks, cemeteries, railroad rights-of-way, shorelines or waterways, or corporate boundary lines.
BOARD OF ADJUSTMENTS OFFICER. The person or persons appointed by the City Mayor to conduct hearings for requests for variances and the conduct hearings for appeals from decisions of city administrative officials.
BOARD OF APPEALS. The Zoning Board of Appeals of the city.
BOARDING KENNEL. Any establishment where pet animals owned by another person are temporarily boarded for pay or compensation.
BOAT OR MARINE CRAFT DEALER. These establishments retail new or used boats, personal watercraft, or new or used outboard motors, boat trailers, and may also provide repair services, sell replacement parts and accessories for such craft, and offer other related marine equipment supplies.
BOWLING, BILLIARDS, POOL AND THE LIKE. This subcategory comprises establishments operating bowling billiards, or pool centers. These establishments often provide food and beverage services.
BUFFER. An area within a property or site, generally adjacent to and parallel with the property line, either consisting of natural vegetation or created by the use of trees, shrubs, fences, and/or berms designed to limit continuously the view of and/or sound from the site to adjacent sites or properties.
BUILDABLE AREA. The space remaining on a zoning lot after the minimum setback requirements of this code have been complied with.
BUILDING. Any structure, whether temporary, semi-permanent or permanent, designed or intended for the support, enclosure, shelter, or protection of persons, property, chattels, animals, or substances of any kind.
BUILDING CODE. The editions of the International Building Code (IBC) and International Residential Code (IRC), as published by the International Code Council (ICC) and adopted from time to time by the City of Greenville.
BUILDING HEIGHT. The vertical distance measured from the average elevation of the proposed finish grade at the front wall of the building to the highest point of the coping of a flat roof or to the deck line of mansard roof, or to the mean height level between eaves and ridge for gable, hip, or gambrel roofs.
BUILDING LINE. See SETBACK LINE.
BUS, TRACK, MOBILE HOME, OR LARGE VEHICLE DEALERS. These establishments retail new or used larger vehicles (not included in car dealers category), such as buses, recreational vehicles (RVs), mobile homes, and trucks. Often these establishments also provide repair services and sell replacement parts and accessories.
CAMPS, CAMPING AND RELATED ESTABLISHMENTS. Some of these establishments operate sites to accommodate campers and their equipment, including tents, tent trailers, travel trailers, and recreational vehicles; others provide overnight recreational camps, such as children's camps, family vacation camps, hunting and fishing camps, and outdoor adventure retreats that offer trail riding, white-water rafting, hiking, and similar activities. These establishments may provide facilities and services, such as cabins, washrooms, food services, recreational facilities, and equipment, and organized recreational activities.
CAR CARE CENTER. Structurally, they are similar to other store buildings, but some may include repair garages, car washes, and other similar automobile-specific construction. Typical functions include sales of auto parts, auto repairs, tires, and other auto-related merchandise. Track the establishments in this type of structure by applying the appropriate code(s) from the function dimension.
CAR DEALER. Car dealers retail new or used compact automobiles and light trucks (such as sport utility vehicles, and passenger and cargo vans). These vehicles may be sold in combination with activities, such as repair services, and selling replacement parts and accessories.
CAR RENTAL AND LEASING. These establishments rent or lease passenger cars without drivers.
CAR WASHES. These establishments primarily engage in cleaning, washing, and/or waxing automotive vehicles, such as passenger cars, trucks, and vans, and trailers.
CEMETERY, MONUMENT, TOMBSTONE OR MAUSOLEUM. Any site containing at least one burial, marked or previously marked, dedicated to and used or intended to be used for the permanent interment of the human dead, including perpetual care and non-perpetual care cemeteries.
CHECK CASHING BUSINESS. An establishment primarily engaged in providing currency and coinage for a fee to individuals presenting checks drawn from a bank or other source. This shall not include banks or savings and loan institutions, or other businesses wherein the cashing of checks is merely incidental to other primary business activities being conducted on the premises.
CHIEF BUILDING AND ZONING OFFICIAL. The person or persons designated by the city to enforce and administer the provisions of the Zoning Code (inclusive of the Building Code, Electrical Code, and Plumbing Code), Subdivision Code, and Property Maintenance Code.
CHILD AND YOUTH SERVICES. These establishments offer services such as adoption, foster care, drug prevention services, and life-skills training.
CHILD CARE INSTITUTION (BASIC). A child care facility licensed by the state that provides care for more than 12 children for 24 hours a day. Does not include a 24-hour a day program offered by a specialized child care institution.
CHILD CARE INSTITUTION (SPECIALIZED). A child care facility licensed by the state that provides specialized care for more than 12 children for 24 hours a day. Includes residential treatment centers, emergency shelters, halfway houses, therapeutic camps and institutions serving mentally retarded children.
CHURCHES, TEMPLES, SYNAGOGUES, MOSQUES AND OTHER RELIGIOUS FACILITIES. Any place of worship, including any church, synagogue, temple, mosque or other building or facility, primarily engaged in religious worship. The term church does not include uses, such as schools, recreational facilities, day care or child care facilities, kindergartens, dormitories or other facilities, for temporary or permanent residences, which are connected or related to the church or the principal buildings on the site, or are located on the same site, even if the curriculum or services offered as part of such use includes religious services and/or training.
CLINIC. A place used for the care, diagnosis, and treatment of sick, ailing, infirm and injured persons but who are not provided with Council or room nor kept overnight on the premises.
CLUB. A nonprofit association of persons who are bona-fide members organized for some common purposes and paying regular dues, not including a group organized solely or primarily to render a service customarily carried on as a commercial enterprise.
CLUBS OR LODGES. This category comprises establishments that promote the interests of their members, or that promote a particular cause (except labor, political, or professional organizations). These establishments may provide grant-making foundations or charitable trusts, raise funds for social welfare activities, such as health, educational, scientific, and cultural activities. They may solicit contributions and offer memberships. Establishments in this category may operate bars and restaurants for their members.
COLLEGE FRATERNITIES AND SORORITIES. Dormitories explicitly intended for residency by a fraternity or sorority.
COLLEGE OR UNIVERSITY FACILITY (PRIVATELY OWNED). A building or structure, including accessory buildings, grounds or areas, owned and operated by a university, which is not part of a school district or system organized pursuant to state statutes, and which is used for teaching, rest or the preservation of knowledge.
COMMERCIAL BUILDINGS. This category captures all uses that are business related. Use it as a catch-all category for all retail, office, commercial, and industrial activities when the subcategories are either too specific or otherwise unknown (as in comprehensive plan designations).
COMMERCIAL CENTER. Most retail stores fall in this category. Use this as a catch-all category when sufficient detail about structure types are not available (store or shop building). Also, commercial development providing for the sale of general merchandise, convenience goods or services and may include variety stores, discount stores and supermarkets.
COMMERCIAL INDUSTRIAL LAUNDRY. A business that provides washing, drying and ironing services operated by the employees on the premises.
COMMERCIAL PLAYGROUND EQUIPMENT FOR PUBLIC USE. Includes swings, tot-lots, sand lots, and other playground equipment.
COMMISSION. Plan Commission of the city.
COMMON AREA. Any area or space designed for joint use of tenants or owners occupying a mobile home development or other development.
COMMUNICATION TOWERS. A structure designed to support antennas for telecommunications and broadcasting and may include television, cellular phone, or wireless internet or radio signals (Law Insider).
COMMUNITY FOOD SERVICES. These establishments collect, prepare, and deliver food for the needy. They distribute clothing and bedding, run collections for food and donations, and provide meals at fixed or mobile locations. Examples are food banks, meal delivery programs, and soup kitchens.
COMMUNITY HOME. Establishments (e.g., group homes, hospitals, intermediate care facilities) primarily engaged in providing residential care services for persons with intellectual and developmental disabilities. These facilities may provide some health care, though the focus is room, board, protective supervision, and counseling.
COMPREHENSIVE PLAN. The plan or any portion thereof adopted by the city for the coordinated physical development including among other things plans and programs regarding the location, character and extent of highways, transportation routes, bridges, public buildings or uses, utilities, schools, residential, commercial or industrial land uses, parks, forests, dams, drainage facilities and projects affecting the conservation of natural resources of the city.
CONDITIONAL USE PERMIT. A permit issued by the City Council permitting an owner or applicant to use property for a use that is listed as a conditional use in the applicable zoning classification.
CONGREGATE LIVING SERVICES. Funded through the 1978 Congregate Housing Services Act, many of these establishments serve meals and other services in low-income and federally subsidized housing. Now, many establishments provide such services to other non-subsidized housing facilities. Services include housekeeping, laundry, transportation, recreational programs, and other convenience services.
CONSTRUCTION-RELATED BUSINESSES. These establishments either build buildings or structures, or perform additions, alterations, reconstruction, installation, and repairs. They may also provide building demolition or wrecking services. Establishments engaged in blasting, test drilling, landfill, leveling, earthmoving, excavating, land drainage, and other land preparation are included as well. This category reflects the unique processes employed by the establishments.
CONVENIENCE STORES OR CENTERS. Convenience stores or food marts (except those with fuel pumps) primarily retail a limited line of goods that generally includes milk, bread, soda, and snacks. In high traffic or tourism corridors, they also sell gifts, crafts, maps, and other goods normally associated with travel and tourism. Usually configured as a stand-alone store from the smallest size to a few thousand square feet of space. It is typically anchored by a mini-mart, gas station, or a 24-hour general store. Track the establishments in this type of structure by applying the appropriate code(s) from the function dimension. For gas stations, use the gasoline service station category.
CORRECTIONAL OR REHABILITATION FACILITY. These government establishments manage and operate correctional institutions. Their facilities are generally designed for the confinement, correction, and rehabilitation of offenders sentenced by a court (correctional institutions).
COURIER AND MESSENGER SERVICES. Courier and messenger services are establishments that provide air, surface, or combined courier delivery services of parcels and messages within or between metropolitan areas or urban centers. These establishments may form a network including local and point-to point pick up and delivery.
COVERAGE. Total square footage of ground floor area expressed as square footage (see LOT COVERAGE).
COVERED OR PARTIALLY COVERED ATRIUMS AND PUBLIC ENCLOSURES. Often found in downtown locations that provide shelter for large public gatherings and communal activities.
CREMATION FACILITIES. Land-use plans traditionally treated such facilities as serving a community function. Even though many funeral homes now are for-profit enterprises, for lack of a more suitable category, this facility type remains in the community facility category. Many funeral homes may look like large older-style single-family residential structures but have significant structural differences to accommodate funeral functions. They often contain one or more assembly rooms that can hold 25 to 400 people, several smaller rooms for embalming, caskets, showing, and other functions, and because the funeral plant is a 24-hour operation, they often have sleeping quarters for a family (LBCS Structure 4800) (funeral home).
CROP PRODUCTION. The subcategories under crop production reflect biological, physiological, economic, and production similarities. These similarities may include the growing season length, degree of crop rotation, extent of input specialization, labor requirement, or capital demand. Facilities that contribute to the raising and harvesting of plants, tree crops, row crops, or field crops on an agricultural or commercial basis, including packaging and processing.
CUL-DE-SAC. A short minor local street having only one end open for vehicular traffic and other permanently terminated by a turn-around for vehicles.
DAM. A barrier preventing the flow of water or of loose solid materials. These structures are of special concern for emergency management and other disaster recovery applications, they appear in a separate category with subcategories useful for emergency planners. State and federal emergency management applications (as described in the U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency's HAZUS manual) specify these distinctions.
DAY CARE FACILITY. Terms associated with day care facilities shall be defined as follows:
(a) DAY CARE (HOME). A family homes which receive more than three up to a maximum of 12 children for less than 24 hours per day. The maximum of 12 children includes the family's natural, foster, or adopted children and all other persons under the age of 12. The term does not include facilities which receive only children from a single household. (Section 2.18 of the Child Care Act of 1969 [225 ILCS 10/2.18]).
(b) DAY CARE CENTER. Any child care facility which regularly provides day care for less than 24 hours per day for more than eight children in a family home or more than three children in a facility other than a family home, including senior citizen buildings. For a list of facilities which this term does not include, see current state regulation for the Department of Children and Family Services.
DEMOLITION BUSINESSES. A business that demolishes structures, including houses and other buildings, in order to salvage building materials, and that stores those materials before disposing of them.
DEPARTMENT. The Illinois Department of Public Health unless otherwise stated.
DEPARTMENT STORE BUILDING. These buildings are characterized by large commercial spaces for retail or wholesale sales although they may be reconfigured for other uses. Use this category for urban and downtown department stores that look similar to office or standalone store, but have specialized building features (store fronts, display windows, large atriums, etc.).
DEPENDENT MOBILE HOMES. A dependent mobile home shall not be located in any mobile home park within the jurisdiction of the city to be used as a temporary or permanent residence.
DESIGN. The arrangement of uses on the land and use of land for easements, lots and rights-of-way, including materials, alignment, grade, and width of these elements.
DISTRICT. A portion of the territory of the city within which certain uniform regulations and requirements of various combinations thereof apply under the provisions of this code.
DOG DAY CARE FACILITY. A facility providing such services as canine day care for all or part of a day, obedience classes, training grooming, behavior counseling, and other related services.
DORMITORIES. Primarily associated with an institution that provides sleeping units and communal dining facilities. For tracking the number of occupants, guest rooms, or beds, use additional attributes or fields in the land-use database.
DRIVE-IN THEATERS. A cinema laid out so that patrons can be accommodated while remaining in their automobiles.
DRIVE-THROUGH ESTABLISHMENT. A place of business that through design, physical facilities, service, or packaging procedures, encourages customers to receive services, obtain goods, or be entertained while remaining in their motor vehicles. This definition shall include all businesses with a drive-through component.
DRIVEWAY. A minor private way used for vehicles on a zoning or mobile home lot or for common access to a small group of lots, or common parking facilities.
DUPLEX STRUCTURES. A detached house designed for and occupied exclusively as the residence of not more than two families, each living as an independent housekeeping unit.
DWELLING. Any building or portion thereof designed or used exclusively as living quarters for one or more families, other than hotels, motels, tourist homes, clubs, hospitals, or similar uses.
DWELLING UNIT. A residential unit providing complete independent living facilities for one family including permanent provisions for living, sleeping, eating, cooking and sanitation.
DWELLING, MULTIPLE-FAMILY. A building or portion thereof, designed or altered for occupancy by four or more families each living as an independent housekeeping unit.
DWELLING, ONE-FAMILY. A detached principal building designed for or used as a dwelling exclusively by one family as an independent housekeeping unit.
DWELLING, SINGLE-FAMILY. A single structure occupied exclusively by not more than one family.
DWELLING, THREE-FAMILY. A detached principal building designed for or used as a dwelling exclusively by three families each living as an independent housekeeping unit.
DWELLING, TWO-FAMILY. A detached principal building designed for or used as a dwelling exclusively by two families each living as an independent housekeeping unit.
EASEMENT. A vested or acquired right to use land, other than a tenant, for a specific purpose, such right being held by someone other than the owner who holds title to the land.
ELECTRICAL CODE. The National Electric Code, as published by the National Fire Protection Association, and as adopted by the City of Greenville.
EMERGENCY AND RELIEF SERVICES. These establishments provide food, shelter, clothing, medical relief, resettlement, and counseling to disaster victims (LBCS Function 6564).
EMERGENCY OPERATION CENTER. An EOC is a location from which leaders of a jurisdiction or organization coordinate information and resources to support incident management activities (FEMA).
ENCLOSED BUILDING. A building separated on all sides from adjacent open space or other buildings by fixed exterior walls, with openings only for windows and doors, and covered by a permanent roof.
ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING STATION (AIR, SOIL, AND THE LIKE). Facilities that study the air, soil and water in order to measure their current conditions, spot trends and changes, make forecasts and provide early risk warnings, and help policymakers make informed decisions on sustainability and the environment.
ESSENTIAL GOVERNMENTAL OR PUBLIC UTILITY SERVICES. The erection, replacement, construction, alteration or maintenance by public utilities or municipal departments, of underground or overhead gas, electrical, steam, water transmission or distribution systems, collection, communication, supply or disposal systems, including poles, wire, mains, drains, sewers, pipes, conduits, cables, fire alarm boxes, police call boxes, traffic signals, hydrants, and other similar equipment and accessories in connection therewith, reasonably necessary for the furnishing of adequate service by such public utilities or municipal departments or commissions or for the public health or safety or general welfare, but not including buildings.
EXHIBITION, CONVENTION OR CONFERENCE STRUCTURE. A typical exhibition hall facility occupies several city blocks and contains 50,000 to 700,000 square feet of contiguous flat floor space. These halls have high ceilings (25 to 35 feet) and can accommodate a variety of events. Some very large cities (Chicago, for example) have multilevel exhibition halls. Convention structures have both an exhibition hall and a number of meeting rooms. Many also have kitchen and banquet facilities, and an auditorium for special events. Trade shows, public shows, conventions, food functions, receptions, dances, banquets, assemblies, and other activities are typically hosted in these structures. Multipurpose structures have combinations of exhibition, convention, and arena facilities. Some of these may be co-located or created out of a single enclosed space that is reconfigured.
(a) A single individual doing his/her own cooking and living upon the premises as a separate housekeeping unit;
(b) A collective body of persons doing their own cooking and living together upon the premises as a separate housekeeping unit in a domestic relationship based on birth, marriage, adoption, or employment as domestic servants; or
(c) A group of not more than three unrelated persons doing their own cooking and living together on the premises as a separate housekeeping unit pursuant to a mutual housekeeping agreement.
(d) A group of unrelated adult persons living in a State of Illinois certified Community Integrated Living Arrangement (CILA) group home, family home or apartment, who live together on the premises as a separate housekeeping unit, with no more than two persons per bedroom, and who meet all square footage occupancy limits of the City of Greenville whenever said limits are more restrictive than any imposed by the State of Illinois.
(a) An office establishment or business that primarily performs central banking functions (such as issuing currency, management national money supply and international reserves, and acting as fiscal agent for the central government) and accepts deposits (or share deposits) and lends funds from these deposits, and which establishment may include these services to patrons and customers through an accessory, drive-through, as a planned use.
FINANCIAL SERVICES shall also include establishments primarily engaged in one or more of the following.
1. Underwriting securities issues or making markets for securities and commodities;
2. Acting as agents (i.e., brokers) between buyers and sellers of securities and commodities;
3. Providing securities and commodity exchange services; and
4. Providing other services, such as managing portfolios of assets; providing investment advice; and trust, fiduciary, and custody services. Uses include banks; savings associations; savings and loan institutions; investment banking; brokerage for securities or commodities; credit reporting services; certified financial planning; accounting; auditing; bookkeeping; credit service offices, including credit unions; holding and investment services; savings and loans association offices; and consumer and mercantile credit reporting services.
(b) FINANCIAL SERVICES does not include pawn shops, businesses primarily engaged in check cashing or issuing money orders or title loan establishments or other businesses offering short-term consumer loans secured by personal property, certificates of title to such property, estimated tax refunds or other such collateral.
FIRE AND RESCUE STATION. A building in which the members of a fire department and the equipment used to put out fires and other rescue services are located.
FISHING, HUNTING, AND TRAPPING, INCLUDING GAME PRESERVES AND RETREATS. These establishments engage in commercial hunting and trapping, or operate commercial or recreational game or hunting preserves, such as game retreats.
FITNESS, RECREATIONAL SPORTS, GYM OR ATHLETIC CLUB. These establishments operate fitness and recreational sports facilities, or provide services for fitness or recreational sports teams, clubs, or individual activities. The facilities-operating establishments to be classified here include. fitness clubs, gyms, archery and shooting ranges, horseback riding establishments, recreational ball parks and courts, and more.
FLOOD AREA. All land subject to periodic inundation by water as defined by a soils analysis or other appropriate means and includes the overflow of natural waterways, interior ponding and flooding of or resulting from drainage runoff.
FLOOR AREA. The area included within outside walls of a building or portion thereof, including habitable penthouses and attic space but not including vent shafts, courts, or uninhabitable areas below ground level or in attics.
FLOOR AREA RATIO. The ratio of total floor area, in square feet, of all principal and accessory buildings on a lot to total lot area, in square feet, excluding basements.
FOUNTAIN, SCULPTURE OR OTHER AESTHETIC STRUCTURE. Includes other aesthetic structures and streetscape elements, such as benches, planters, fountains, hydrants, flag pedestals, etc.
FUNERAL HOMES. Land-use plans traditionally treated such facilities as serving a community function. Even though many funeral homes now are for-profit enterprises, for lack of a more suitable category, this facility type remains in the community facility category. Many funeral homes may look like large older-style single-family residential structures but have significant structural differences to accommodate funeral functions. They often contain one or more assembly rooms that can hold 25 to 400 people, several smaller rooms for embalming, caskets, showing, and other functions, and because the funeral plant is a 24-hour operation, they often have sleeping quarters for a family.
GARAGE - PARKING, PRIVATE. A building or portion thereof for the storage of vehicles for persons living on the premises.
GARAGE - PARKING, PUBLIC. A building or portion thereof used by the public for the storage or parking of motor vehicles for compensation or otherwise.
GAS OR ELECTRIC POWER GENERATION FACILITY. A facility designed to produce electric energy from another form of energy.
GASOLINE SERVICE. Gas stations are establishments that primarily retail automotive fuels (e.g., diesel fuel, gasohol, gasoline) which may or may not be in combination with convenience stores or food marts. These establishments may further provide services such as automotive repair, automotive oils, replacement parts and accessories, or food and beverage sales.
GASOLINE STATION. Structures that are specialized for selling gasoline with storage tanks, often underground or hidden. They may have bays for car washes. For convenience stores that sell gasoline, use the convenience store category.
GRADE SCHOOL (PRIVATELY OWNED). A building or structure, including accessory buildings, grounds or areas, owned and operated by a school, which is not part of a school district or system organized pursuant to state statutes, and which is used for teaching, rest or the preservation of knowledge.
GREENHOUSES/NURSERIES. This category comprises establishments growing crops of any kind under cover or growing nursery stock and flowers. “Under cover” is generally defined as greenhouses, cold frames, cloth houses, and lath houses. The crops grown are removed at various stages of maturity and have annual and perennial life cycles. The nursery stock includes short rotation woody crops that have growth cycles of ten years or less.
HATCHERIES AND POULTRY HOUSES. These breed, hatch, or raise poultry for meat or egg production.
HILLSIDE AREA. An area with an average slope of 20% or more.
HOME OCCUPATIONS. Any activity carried out for gain by a resident conducted as an accessory use in the resident's dwelling unit.
HOSPITAL. Any building or portion thereof used for diagnosis, treatment, or care of human ailments including sanitariums but not including clinics, rest homes, convalescent homes, or nursing homes.
HOSPITAL BUILDING. Includes general, tuberculosis, and other types of hospitals, and related facilities such as laboratories, outpatient departments, nurses' home facilities, extended care facilities, facilities related to programs for home health services, self-care units, and central service facilities, operated in connection with hospitals, and education or training facilities for health professional personnel operated as an integral part of a hospital, but does not include any facility furnishing primarily domiciliary care (CFR Title 42).
HOTEL. A building designed or used for occupancy normally as the temporary lodging place of individuals, having at least six guest rooms, where a general kitchen and dining room may be provided but where there are no cooking facilities in any guest room.
HOTEL, MOTEL OR TOURIST COURT. These establishments comprise resort hotels that do not have gambling services. They may also offer food services, recreational services, convention hosting services, laundry services, etc. This subcategory includes extended stay hotels.
HOTELS, MOTELS, OR OTHER ACCOMMODATION SERVICES. Establishments in this category serve lodging and short-term accommodations for travelers. They may offer a wide range of services, from overnight sleeping space to full-service hotel suites. They may offer these services in conjunction with other activities, such as entertainment or recreation.
IMPROVEMENT. Refers to site grading, street work and utilities (including water, sewer, electric, gas and storm water) to be installed or agreed to be installed by the subdivider on land to be used for public or private streets, and easements or other purposes as are necessary for the general use of lot owners in the subdivision.
IMPROVEMENT PLANS. The engineering plans showing types of materials and construction details for the physical structures and facilities to be installed both in, or in conjunction with, the subdivision.
INCINERATOR, COMPOSTING OR SIMILAR FACILITY. Mainly industrial in character, these facilities may sometimes be co-located with landfills and other solid waste operations.
INDOOR GAMES FACILITY. Many bowling alleys, golf ranges, skating rinks, etc., do not have large spectator seating areas but cater to a large number of people playing in the facility.
INDUSTRIAL BUILDINGS AND STRUCTURES. Buildings wherein products or materials are fabricated, assembles or processed, such as assembly plants, laboratories, power plants, refineries, gas plants, mills, and factories.
INDUSTRIAL PARKS. Also known as research and development parks, these are one or more buildings used for light industrial activities, often by several independent enterprises, that may share common loading, parking, and business services. Sometimes they are also referred to as business incubators that are similar to a light industrial structure but differ in the duration of tenancy (incubators only lease for a year to two to help a business in its initial development). Industrial malls, structurally, are like business incubators, but without tenancy restrictions.
IRRIGATION FACILITIES. All structures and appurtenant works for the delivery, diversion, and storage of irrigation water. These facilities may be referred to as projects, systems, or irrigation areas.
JUNK YARD. Any area where scrap, metal, paper, rags, or similar materials are bought, sold, exchanged, stored, baled, packed, disassembled, or handled, including auto and building salvage yards.
KENNEL. Any structure or lot on which four or more dogs and/or cats over four months of age are kept.
KENNELS AND OTHER CANINE-RELATED FACILITIES. Any lot or premises on which domestic or wild animals are kept, boarded or raised for sale.
KIOSKS. A small structure with one or more open sides that is used to vend merchandise.
LABORATORY OR SPECIALIZED INDUSTRIAL FACILITY. A building or part of a building devoted to the testing and analysis of any product or animal. No manufacturing is conducted on the premises, except for experimental or testing purposes.
LAND USE PLAN. The long-range plan for the desirable use of land in the city as officially adopted and as amended from time to time by the City Council.
LAUNDROMAT. A business that provides home-type washing, drying, and ironing machines for hire to be used by the customers on the premises.
LARGE AREA DISTRIBUTION OR TRANSIT WAREHOUSE. A subcategory for specifying large warehouse structures that occupy several acres of land.
LEASING TRUCKS, TRAILERS, RECREATION VEHICLES AND THE LIKE. Establishments in this classification rent or lease trucks, truck tractors or buses, semi trailers, utility trailers, RVs (recreational vehicles), or off-highway transportation equipment such as aircraft, railroad cars, steamships, or tugboats. Drivers or operators are not provided.
LIBRARY BUILDING. A building that has a collection of books, documents, music, and sometimes things such as tools or artwork, for people to borrow, usually without payment.
LIFE CARE OR CONTINUING CARE SERVICES. This subcategory comprises church or social welfare organizations running retirement centers. Residents turn over some or all of their assets in exchange for housing, personal care, convenience care, and some health care. Terms used for such establishments are. endowment facilities, founders care facilities, continuing care retirement centers, etc.
LIGHT INDUSTRIAL STRUCTURE AND FACILITIES. Buildings not more than one story in height and not exceeding 10,000 square feet in gross floor area that involve fabrication or manufacturing of noncombustible materials which, during finishing, packing, or processing, are not classified as hazardous use.
LOADING SPACE. An off-street space or berth on the same lot with a building, or contiguous to a group of buildings for the temporary parking of a commercial vehicle while loading or unloading merchandise or materials and which abuts upon a street, alley, or other appropriate means of access.
LOFT BUILDING. Multistoried industrial building, often with higher ceilings and wider columns than a comparable office building. They are popular structures for rehab to residential activities. Other rehab adaptations include art galleries, selling books, computer data centers, mail order centers, and general office space.
LOT. A portion or parcel of land (whether a portion of a platted subdivision or otherwise) occupied or intended to be occupied by a building or use and its accessories together with such yards as are required under the provisions of this code having not less than the minimum area, width and depth required by this code for a lot in the district in which such land is situated and having its principal frontage on a street or on such other means of access as permitted in accordance with the provisions of this code. The minimum area of a lot as defined herein must be an integral unit of land under ownership in fee or in co-tenancy, or under legal control tantamount to such ownership, which ownership or control must continue for the existence of the building or buildings permitted to be situated on the lot.
LOT AREA. See AREA OF ZONING LOT.
LOT, CORNER. A lot abutting upon two or more streets at their intersection or upon two parts of the same street. The point of intersection of the street lines is the "corner."
LOT COVERAGE. The percentage of a lot or parcel which is, or will be, covered by the principal building(s) and accessory structure(s).
LOT, DEPTH. The mean horizontal distance between the front and the rear lot lines measured in the general direction of the side lot lines.
LOT, DOUBLE FRONTAGE. See LOT, THROUGH.
LOT INTERIOR. A lot whose side lines do not abut upon any street.
LOT LINE, FRONT. The line separating the lot from the street. The street on which a building's frontage is oriented shall determine the location of the front lot line provided the front setback is no less than the average setback of existing buildings.
LOT LINE, REAR. The rear lot line is the lot line or lot lines most nearly parallel to and most remote from the front lot line.
LOT LINE, SIDE. Any lot line other than front or rear lot lines. A side lot line separating a lot from a street is called a street side lot line. A side lot line separating a lot from another lot, or lots, is called an interior side lot line.
LOT OF RECORD. A lot which is a part of a subdivision, the plat of which has been recorded in the office of the County Recorder of Deeds.
LOT, THROUGH. A lot having frontage on two parallel or approximately parallel streets.
LOT WIDTH. The mean horizontal width of the lot measured at right angles to its depth.
LUMBERYARD AND BUILDING MATERIALS. Use this classification for lumber yards and heavy building materials retailing establishments. For hardware stores also selling lumber, use the hardware and home centers classification.
MANUFACTURED HOME. A home that is constructed in compliance with the preemptive National Manufactured Housing Construction and Safety Standards of the Federal Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Code, containing a permanently affixed, red emblem. A factory-assembled, completely integrated structure designed for use as a dwelling unit, with a permanent chassis and so constructed as to permit its transport in two or more sections, on wheels temporarily or
permanently attached to its frame, from the place of its construction to the location, with a permanent masonry or concrete foundation and connected to available utilities, including but not limited to provisions for water, sewer, electric and natural gas systems contained therein. Such structures shall conform to lot line and setback regulations as required for site-built construction.
MANUFACTURED HOUSING, RESIDENTIAL DESIGN. A United States Department of Housing and Urban Development Code (HUD Code) manufactured home. For purposes of the floodplain ordinance, a manufactured home means a structure transportable in one or more sections, which is built on a permanent chassis and is designed for use with or without a permanent foundation when connected to the required utilities. Does not include a "recreational vehicle." Also known as manufactured housing.
MANUFACTURING PLANTS. A factory or building where goods are produced.
MARKET SHOPS, INCLUDING OPEN MARKETS. Structures in this category include typical market shops and farmers markets with or without outdoor sales and service areas in single or groups of buildings with stalls for retail or wholesale commercial activities.
MEDICAL CLINIC BUILDING. A building in which ten or more physicians and/or dentists or their allied professional assistants carry on their profession; a building that contains one or more physicians, dentists and their assistants, and a laboratory and/or an apothecary limited to the sale of pharmaceutical and medical supplies. Shall not include inpatient care or operating rooms for major surgery.
MILL-TYPE FACTORY STRUCTURE. These are older single or multistory factories, common in many older industrial area, and supported by large wood beams and columns. They are popular structures for rehab to activities that are not industrial (art galleries, book selling, computer data centers, mail order centers, etc.). For lumber mills, see the agricultural facilities category.
MINIATURE GOLF ESTABLISHMENT. These establishments operate miniature golf courses, and typically provide the necessary equipment to patrons. These establishments are distinct from golf courses and country clubs.
MINI-WAREHOUSE. A storage enterprise dealing with the reception of goods of residential or commercial orientation that lie dormant over extended periods of time. Separate storage units are rented to individual customers who are entitled to exclusive and independent access to their respective units.
MOBILE HOME. A home that is constructed in compliance with the preemptive National Manufactured Housing Construction and Safety Standards of the Federal Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Code, containing a permanently affixed, red emblem. A factory-assembled, completely integrated structure designed for use as a dwelling unit, with a permanent chassis and so constructed as to permit its transport in one section (single-wide), on wheels temporarily or permanently
attached to its frame, from the place of its construction to the location, with a permanent masonry or concrete foundation and connected to available utilities, including but not limited to provisions for water, sewer, electric and natural gas systems contained therein. Such structures shall conform to lot line and setback regulations as required for site-built construction. This definition shall not include a motorized recreational vehicle or camping trailer.
MOBILE HOME, DEPENDENT. A mobile home which does not have toilet and bath or shower facilities.
MOBILE HOME, INDEPENDENT. A mobile home with self-contained toilet and bath or shower facilities.
MOBILE HOME LOT. A parcel of land for the placement of a mobile home and the exclusive use of its occupants.
MOBILE HOME PAD. That part of an individual mobile home space or lot beneath the mobile home, including the concrete portion of the pad.
MOBILE HOME PARK. An area of land under unified ownership and control on which two or more occupied mobile homes are harbored either free of charge or for revenue purposes, and shall include any building, structure, tent, vehicle, or enclosure used or intended for use as part of the equipment of such mobile home park, includes courts, developments, communities.
MOBILE HOME SPACE. Any portion of a mobile home park designed for the use or occupancy of one mobile home.
MODULAR HOME. A structure designed primarily for residential occupancy, designed, and constructed to a state or national model code, which is manufactured in one or more sections in a factory for installation on a permanent foundation at its final location. The term does not include manufactured housing as defined by the National Manufactured Housing Construction and Safety Standards Act of 1974.
MOTEL OR MOTOR HOTEL. A series of attached, semi-attached or detached sleeping or living units, for the accommodation of transient guests and not customarily including individual cooking or kitchen facilities, said units having convenient access to off-street parking spaces for the exclusive use of the guests or occupants.
MOVIE THEATER. A movie theater is a specialized theater for showing movies or motion pictures. The primary structural difference between a theater and a movie theater is the projection screen. However, many movie theaters can be easily adapted for stage performances and many stages have folding screens for movie projections. Other terms used to describe these structures include talkies, cinema theaters, and motion pictures. This category also includes cineplexes: complex structures with multiple movie theaters, each theater capable of providing performances independent of the others in the complex.
MULTIFAMILY DWELLING. A dwelling or group of dwellings on one lot containing separate living units for five or more families, but which may have joint services or facilities.
MUSEUM, EXHIBITION, OR SIMILAR FACILITY. A museum is a not-for-profit, permanent institution in the service of society that researches, collects, conserves, interprets and exhibits tangible and intangible heritage (International Council of Museums).
NONCONFORMING BUILDING. A building or structure or portion thereof conflicting with the provisions of this code applicable to the district in which it is situated.
NONCONFORMING USE. A use of a building or land legally existing at the time of adoption of this code or any amendment thereto and which does not conform with the use regulations of the district in which located.
OFFICE BUILDING (WITH DRIVE-THROUGH FACILITY). An office building with drive-in windows to serve customers in automobiles.
OFFICE OR BANK BUILDING, STAND-ALONE (WITHOUT DRIVE-THROUGH FACILITY). An office building without drive-in windows to serve customers in automobiles.
OFFICE, PROFESSIONAL. An office (other than a service office and other than an office for care and/or treatment of, or medical attention to, animals as distinguished from persons) for the practice of professions, such as the offices of physicians, dentists, attorneys-at-law, architects, engineers, artists, musicians, teachers and others who through training are qualified to perform services of a professional nature.
OFFICE, SERVICE. An office in which are offered services by real estate agents, insurance agents, public stenographers, brokers, or others who through training are duly qualified to perform services of an executive.
OTHER FAMILY SERVICES. Hotline centers, suicide crisis centers, self-help organizations, etc., are some examples of establishments in this class.
OTHER STRUCTURALLY CONVERTED BUILDINGS. This is a catch-all category for all other residential structure types that do not easily classify in any of the other residential categories.
OUTDOOR RESALE BUSINESS. A business that sells used merchandise, other than automobiles, logging equipment or other agricultural equipment, and stores or displays the merchandise outdoors.
OUTDOOR STAGE, BANDSTAND OR SIMILAR STRUCTURE. Either covered or uncovered, these structures serve as stages for performances in outdoor arenas and gathering places.
PARKING AREA, PRIVATE. An open, hard-surfaced area, other than a street or public way, designed, arranged, and made available for the storage of private passenger automobiles only, or occupants of the building or buildings for which the parking area is developed and is accessory.
PARKING AREA, PUBLIC. An open, hard-surfaced area, other than a street or other public way, used for the parking of automobiles or other motor vehicles and available to the public whether for a fee or free for clients or customers.
PARKING LANE. A lane of a street used primarily for vehicular parking.
PARKING SPACE, AUTOMOBILE. Space with a public or private parking area of not less than nine feet by 18 feet, exclusive of access drives, or aisles, ramps, columns, or office and work areas for the storage of a passenger automobile or a commercial vehicle under one and one-half ton capacity.
PARTS, ACCESSORIES, OR TIRES. Primarily comprising of automotive supply stores, these establishments retail new, used, or rebuilt automotive parts and accessories. They may also include repair and installation services. Examples include parts and supply stores, automotive stereo stores, speed shops, truck cap stores, and tires and tube shops.
PASSENGER TERMINAL, MIXED CODE. A public and civic use category characterized by uses providing facilities for the takeoff and landing of airplanes and helicopters, and terminals for taxi, rail, or bus service.
PASSIVE OPEN SPACE. All common open space not meeting the definition of active recreational open space, including, but not limited to critical areas and associated buffers.
PAWNBROKER OR PAWNSHOP. An establishment engaged in the business of lending money on the security of pledged goods or engaged in the business of purchasing tangible property on condition that it may be redeemed or repurchased by the seller for a fixed price within a fixed period of time.
PERFORMANCE THEATER. Includes concert halls and other structures with fixed seats arranged on a sloped or stepped floor; may seat 300 to 3,000 people.
PERMANENT FOUNDATION. A closed perimeter formation consisting of materials such as concrete, mortared concrete block, or mortared brick extending into the ground below the front line, excluding the use of piers.
PERSON. Any agent, individual, firm, association, partnership or corporation or similar entity.
PLANETARIUM. A building in which images of stars, planets, and constellations are projected on the inner surface of a dome for public entertainment or education.
PLANNED DEVELOPMENT. An area of minimum contiguous size, as specified by this code to be planned, developed, operated, and maintained as a unified development and containing one or more residential clusters or planned unit residential developments or one or more public, quasi-public, commercial, or industrial areas in such ranges or ratios of differing uses as specified in this code.
PLANS. All of the drawings including plats, cross sections, profiles, working details and specifications, which the subdivider prepares or has prepared to show the character, extent and details of improvements required in this code, and which plans shall conform to any requirements of the Plan Commission as to scale and details for submittal to the appropriate officials of the city for consideration, approval or disapproval.
PLAT. Any map, plan or chart of a city, town, section, or subdivision, indicating the location and boundaries of individual properties, public improvements, utility locations and which meets the requirements of this code.
PLAT, FINAL. A plat conforming to the requirements of this chapter, of the revised code.
PLAT, PRELIMINARY. The first plat prepared designating generally the methods, dimensions and conditions of land subdivision and the improvements proposed on a specific parcel of land.
PLOT. A parcel of land consisting of one or more lots or portions thereof which is described by reference to a recorded plat or metes and bounds.
PLUMBING CODE. The Illinois Plumbing Code, as promulgated and published by the Illinois Department of Public Health, and as amended from time to time.
POLICE STATION. Policing and police-related activities that typically occur in a police station. It also includes community policing centers located in neighborhoods, which may occupy store-front locations.
POST OFFICES. Establishments that operate the national postal service, or perform one or more postal services, such as sorting, routing, and delivery on a contract basis (except the bulk transportation of mail), are included in this subcategory.
POSTAL TRANSPORTATION SERVICES. Service established to aid the national postal service. Establishments that perform one or more postal services, such as sorting, routing, and delivery on a contract basis (except the bulk transportation of mail), are included in this subcategory.
PRODUCE WAREHOUSE. Specialized warehouse structures for storing, sorting, repackaging, and, sometimes, wholesale selling of produce.
PREMISES. A lot together with all the buildings and uses thereon.
PRINCIPAL BUILDING. The main use of a building on a parcel of land as distinguished from a subordinate or accessory building or structure.
PRINCIPAL USE. The main use of land or buildings as distinguished from a subordinate or accessory use.
PROPERTY LINE. A recorded boundary of a plot or plat.
PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION. All government functions; it includes federal, state, and local government agencies that administer, oversee, and manage public programs and have executive, legislative, or judicial authority. Establishments develop policy, create laws, adjudicate civil and criminal legal cases, and provide for public safety and for national defense.
PUBLIC ASSEMBLY STRUCTURES. Structures for planning applications related to public safety, transportation, and emergency management.
PUBLIC OPEN SPACE. Any publicly owned open area, including, but not limited to the following. parks, playgrounds, forest preserves, beaches, waterways, parkways, and streets.
PUBLIC OR PRIVATE PARK. Land and facilities, such as playgrounds, fountains or swimming pools, used or to be used as a park, as defined in this chapter, regardless of location, including the acquisition of such land, the construction of improvements, provision of pedestrian and vehicular access and purchase of equipment for the facility.
PUBLIC SAFETY-RELATED FACILITY. A government facility for public safety and emergency services, including a facility that provides police, fire protection, and/or emergency medical services and related administrative and training facilities.
PUBLIC WATER AND SEWER SYSTEM. A water and/or sewer system, which is owned and operated by a local governmental authority or by an established public utility company. Such systems are usually existing systems serving a municipality, a township, an urban county, or a water or sewer district established and directly controlled under the laws of this state.
RECREATIONAL VEHICLE. Every camping trailer, motor home, mini motor home, travel trailer, truck camper or van camper used primarily for recreational purposes and not used commercially nor owned by a commercial business.
RECYCLING BUSINESS. A business that is.
(a) Primarily engaged in converting ferrous or non-ferrous metals or other materials into raw material products having prepared grades and having an existing or potential economic value;
(b) Using raw material products of that kind in the production of new products; or
(c) Obtaining or storing ferrous or non-ferrous metals or other materials for a purpose described by subsections (a) or (b) above.
REFRIGERATED WAREHOUSE OR COLD STORAGE. Large industrialized warehouse structures with specialized cold storage and climate control facilities.
RESEARCH-AND-DEVELOPMENT SERVICES (SCIENTIFIC, MEDICAL, AND TECHNOLOGY). Establishments that conduct research, or analyze, in the physical, engineering, cognitive, or life sciences, such as agriculture, electronics, ecology, biology, botany, biotechnology, computers, chemistry, food, fisheries, forests, geology, health, mathematics, medicine, oceanography, pharmacy, physics, veterinary, sociology, psychology, language, behavior, or economics.
RESIDENCE. A stationary detached principal building designed for or used as a dwelling as distinguished from a mobile (dwelling) home.
RESIDENTIAL BUILDINGS. Buildings built for residential purposes. A temporary or permanent dwelling place, abode, or habitation to which one intends to return as distinguished from a place of temporary sojourn or transient visit.
RESIDENTIAL CARE FACILITIES. Any facility, other than a foster home, whether operated for profit or not, which through ownership or management provides residential care of one or more persons who are not related by blood or marriage to either the owner or operator, or one of them, of such facility, or any classification of such facilities as defined in the Minimum Standards, Rules and Regulations, as amended, of the Department of Public Health of the State of Illinois, that provides supervised residential care for a person or persons, who because of age, physical or mental disability, emotional or behavioral disorder, or mental retardation, are incapable of managing their person, whether or not under conservatorship or guardianship.
RESTAURANT, WITH INCIDENTAL CONSUMPTION OF ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES. Restaurant buildings that serve food for customers for consumption on or off premises. These structures may also be characterized by specialized cooking, serving, and health and hygiene equipment. Fifty-one percent of gross retail sales revenue shall be from sales of non-alcoholic beverages and food. Food shall be available at any time that alcoholic beverages are served.
RESTAURANT, WITH NO CONSUMPTION OF ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES PERMITTED. Restaurant buildings that serve food for customers for consumption on or off premises. These structures may also be characterized by specialized cooking, serving, and health and hygiene equipment. Does not sell alcoholic products.
RE-SUBDIVISION. See SUBDIVISION.
RETIREMENT HOUSING SERVICES. Services that offer minimal convenience services but focus on attracting elderly residents so as to provide a social support system among the residents.
RIGHT(S)-OF-WAY. Any street, alley, other land, or waterway, dedicated or commonly used for utility purposes, including utility easements in which the city (or IDOT) has the right and authority to authorize, regulate or permit the locations of facilities.
ROAD, COUNTY. A term denoting a tract of land which is used primarily for the purpose of vehicular movement and includes all of the facilities and improvements within the right-of-way. This tract of land must have been presented to and accepted by the County Superintendent of Highways.
ROADBED. The graded portion of a street upon which the base course, surface course, shoulders and median are constructed.
ROADSIDE STAND, PUSHCARTS, AND THE LIKE. Movable units that may or may not be permanently anchored.
ROADWAY. The entire improved portion of the street, including shoulders, parking lanes, travel way, curbs and gutter which lies between the right-of-way lines.
ROOM. An unsubdivided portion of the interior of a dwelling unit, excluding bathrooms, kitchens, closets, hallways and service porches and the like.
ROOMING AND BOARDING HOUSE. A building other than a hotel where lodging is provided for definite periods for compensation pursuant to previous arrangements.
SATELLITE DISH. Any parabolic/dish-type apparatus, external to or attached to the exterior of a building or structure, capable of receiving, for the benefit of the principal use, television, or radio signals. Satellite dishes are considered an accessory structure.
SCHOOL AND EMPLOYEE BUS TRANSPORTATION. Transportation that provides buses and other motor vehicles to transport pupils to and from school or employees to and from work.
SCHOOL DISTRICT. Any district created or operated under the provisions of "The School Code," of the State of Illinois, approved May 1, 1945, as amended.
SCHOOL OR UNIVERSITY BUILDINGS (PRIVATELY OWNED). A building or structure, including accessory buildings, grounds or areas, owned and operated by a school or university, which is not part of a school district or system organized pursuant to state statutes, and which is used for teaching, rest or the preservation of knowledge.
SEPTIC TANK AND RELATED SERVICES. This class comprises establishments that
(a) Pump (i.e., clean) septic tanks and cesspools;
(b) Rent or service portable toilets; and
(c) Provide other waste management services (except waste collection, waste treatment and disposal, remediation, operation of materials recovery facilities, and waste management consulting services).
SERVICES FOR ELDERLY AND DISABLED. Establishments that serve the elderly and persons with disabilities in a variety of ways (not at their homes). Services typically include group support, companionship, day care, homemaker services, etc. This class does not include housing for the elderly.
SERVICES TO BUILDINGS AND DWELLINGS (PEST CONTROL, JANITORIAL, LANDSCAPING, CARPET/UPHOLSTERY CLEANING, PARKING, AND CRATING). Services to provide services, such as pest control, janitorial activities, landscaping, carpet and upholstery cleaning, and other services for buildings and dwellings.
SETBACK LINE. The distance in linear feet measured on a horizontal plane from the lot line to a building or structure on the lot.
SEWER TREATMENT PLANT. A facility where sewage is cleaned so that it is not harmful or dangerous to the environment.
SHOP OR STORE BUILDING WITH DRIVE-THROUGH FACILITY. A building with drive-in windows to serve customers in automobiles.
SHOPPING CENTER. Shopping center refers to a group of retail establishments that are located (and sometimes managed) as a single property. Most provide on-site parking, and their size and configuration reflect the kinds of merchandise and trade area characteristics. The two basic structure types are malls and open-air strip centers.
SIGHT DISTANCE TRIANGLE. The area bounded by the street right-of-way lines of corner lots and a line joining points along said street lines 30 feet from their points of intersection. Nothing shall be erected, placed, planted, or allowed to grow within this triangular area in a manner as to materially impede vision between a height of two and one-half feet and eight feet above the grades of the outside edge of the street surface of the intersecting surfaces. These requirements shall also apply to driveways serving development off collector and arterial roadways.
SIGN, FREESTANDING. Must comply with Chapter 152 of the City of Greenville Code.
SINGLE-FAMILY ATTACHED DWELLING (VILLA, TWIN HOME, CONDOMINIUM OR TOWNHOME). Single family dwellings sharing a common wall but situated on separate lots designed to be owned and occupied exclusively by separate families.
SINGLE-FAMILY DETACHED DWELLINGS. A single-family dwelling that is not attached to any other dwelling by any means and is surrounded by open space or yards.
SINGLE-ROOM OCCUPANCY UNITS. Living units that are structurally no different from hotels, but many have small cooking facilities (independent or common) and other amenities not associated with a hotel. SROs may also have building code specifications different from hotels and motels.
SITE. A parcel of land consisting of one or more lots or portions thereof which is described by reference to a recorded plat or by metes and bounds.
SKATING RINKS. These establishments operate skating rinks; they may further offer skating products and services.
SKILLED NURSING SERVICES. Establishments that provide 24-hour skilled nursing care. Included are nursing homes and convalescent hospitals for the elderly.
SLOPE. The degree of natural inclination of the existing ground.
SLOPE, STEEP. Lands with a slope of 12% or greater and those lands with a 7% to 12% slope which are especially susceptible to soil erosion.
SMALL LOAN ESTABLISHMENTS. Establishments which (1) engage in the business of providing money to customers on a temporary basis, wherein such loans are secured by post-dated check, paycheck, or car title; or (2) are registered as lenders under state or federal law. This classification does include, but is not limited to; check cashing stores, payday loan stores, and car title loan stores. The classification does not include a state or federally charged bank, savings and loan association, credit union, mortgage company or trust company, or industrial land company. Further, this classification does not include establishments selling consumer goods, including consumables, where the cashing of checks or money order is incidental to the main purpose of the business and does not hold itself out as providing check cashing services.
SOCIAL ASSISTANCE, WELFARE AND CHARITABLE SERVICES (NOT OTHERWISE ENUMERATED). Establishments provide social assistance services directly to individuals. They do not offer residential or accommodation services.
SPACE RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY. Establishments that administer and operate space flights, space research, and space exploration. Included are government establishments operating space flight centers.
SPORTS STADIUM OR ARENA. Structurally, the main distinction between a stadium and an arena is its size. Stadiums are larger than arenas and seat 40,000 to more than 100,000 spectators; arenas typically seat 8,000 to 22,000.
STABLES AND OTHER EQUINE-RELATED FACILITIES. Facilities set apart and adapted for keeping horses. Includes horse trot-tracks, and other horse training or veterinary facilities for horses.
STREET. A general term denoting a public or private way for the purpose of vehicular travel. The term includes all facilities which normally occur within the right-of-way; it shall also include such other designation for a street as. a highway, thoroughfare, parkway, through way, road, pike, avenue, boulevard, lane, place, drive, court or as otherwise designated, but excluding an alley or a way for pedestrian use only.
STREET, ARTERIAL. A street designed or utilized primarily for high vehicular speeds or for heavy volumes of traffic on a continuous route with intersections at grade and which may have direct access to abutting properties and on which geometric design and traffic control measures are used to expedite the safe movement of through traffic.
STREET, COLLECTOR. A street which carries or is proposed to carry intermediate volumes of traffic from local streets to arterial streets and which may or may not be continuous.
STREET, LOCAL. A street used primarily for access to abutting properties, providing for minimum speeds and traffic volumes.
STREET, MARGINAL ACCESS, OR SERVICE ROAD. A local street, parallel and adjacent to arterial streets providing access to abutting properties.
STRUCTURE. Anything constructed or erected which requires permanent or temporary location on the ground or is attached to something having a permanent or temporary location on the ground or is attached to something having a permanent or temporary location on the ground but not including poles, lines, cables, and other transmission or distribution facilities of public utilities.
SUBDIVIDE. See SUBDIVISION.
SUBDIVIDER. Any person, firm, partnership, association, corporation, estate, or other group or combination acting as a unit, dividing, or proposing to divide land in a manner that constitutes a subdivision as herein defined.
SUBDIVISION. A division of land into two or more parts, any of which is less than five acres, except as set forth in the Plat Act (765 ILCS 205/1 et seq.).
SUBDIVISION, MINOR. A division of land into two but not more than four lots, all of which front upon an existing street, and not involving any new streets or other rights-of-way, easements, improvements, or other provisions for public areas and facilities.
SUPPORT FUNCTIONS FOR AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY. Support establishments employed by the agriculture and forestry industries. They perform activities associated with production and distribution of forest and agricultural products. Forestry support establishments perform support activities related to timber production, wood technology, forestry economics and marketing, and forest protection. They provide activities for forestry, such as estimating timber, forest fire-fighting, forest pest control, and consulting on wood attributes and reforestation.
TATTOO PARLORS. Any establishment where tattooing and/or body piercing is made available.
TAXI AND LIMOUSINE SERVICE. Establishments provide passenger transportation by automobile or van, not over regular routes or regular schedules. Taxicab owner/operators, taxicab fleet operators, and taxicab organizations are included. Also included are limousine and luxury sedan establishments, which may provide an array of specialty and luxury passenger transportation services.
TELECOMMUNICATION TOWERS. Metal structures that have transmitting or receiving antennas attached for receiving or transmitting of electronic media.
TEMPORARY STRUCTURES, TENTS AND THE LIKE, FOR SHELTER. Any structure which is designed to be easily transported or dismantled after its function has been fulfilled.
TEMPORARY USE. A use established for a fixed period of time with the intent to discontinue such use upon the expiration of the time period.
TITLE LOAN ESTABLISHMENT. Any person, entity or business that lends money to a borrower and in exchange retains physical possession of the state-issued certificate of title to the personal property of the borrower. The classification does not include a state or federally charged bank, savings and loan association, credit union, mortgage company or trust company, or industrial land company.
TOBACCO OR TOBACCONIST ESTABLISHMENT. Establishments retailing cigarettes, cigars, tobacco, pipes, and other tobacco supplies.
TOWING AND OTHER ROAD SERVICES. Establishments that tow light or heavy motor vehicles, both local and long distance. These establishments may provide incidental services, such as storage and emergency road repair services.
TOWNHOUSES. A building that has single-family dwelling units erected in a row as a single building on adjoining lots, each being separated from the adjoining unit or units by a fire wall (to be constructed in accordance with city codes and ordinances), along the dividing lot line, and each such building being separated from any other building by space on all sides.
TRADE OR SPECIALTY SCHOOL FACILITY (PRIVATELY OWNED). A building or structure, including accessory buildings, grounds or areas, owned and operated by a secondary school teaching the skilled trades, which does not receive public funding.
TRAILER. Every vehicle without motive power in operation, other than a pole trailer, designed for carrying persons or property and for being drawn by a motor vehicle and so constructed that no part of its weight rests upon the towing vehicle.
TRAVEL TRAILER. A trailer, not used commercially, designed to provide living quarters for recreational, camping or travel use, and of a size or weight not requiring an over-dimension permit when towed on a highway.
TRAVEL WAY. That portion of a street used for the movement of vehicles, exclusive of shoulders and auxiliary lanes.
TRUCK AND FREIGHT TRANSPORTATION SERVICES. Service which provides truck and freight transportation for over the road transportation of cargo using motor vehicles, such as trucks and tractor trailers.
WAREHOUSE AND STORAGE SERVICES. Operation that provides warehouse and storage facilities for general merchandise, refrigerated goods, and other warehouse products. They provide the facilities to store goods but do not sell the goods they handle. They may also provide a range of services related to the distribution of goods, such as labeling, breaking bulk, inventory control and management, light assembly, order entry and fulfillment, packaging, pick and pack, price marking and ticketing, and transportation arrangement.
WAREHOUSE DISCOUNT STORE/SUPERSTORE. Primarily warehouse in structural character but also have other structural features convenient for large discount stores and "big box retail" establishments.
WAREHOUSE OR STORAGE FACILITY. Includes public storage, mini-warehouse, ministorage, and other storage buildings.
WAREHOUSE STRUCTURE. A structure or room for the storage of merchandise or commodities. Does not include grain elevator structures; they should be classified in agricultural structures.
WASTEWATER STORAGE OR PUMPING STATION FACILITY, LIFT STATIONS. A storage and collection chamber that lifts and distributes wastewater or sewage when it cannot naturally be carried by gravity.
WATER SUPPLY PUMP STATION. Water pumping stations designed to lift and transport water from the source to the distribution network.
WATER SUPPLY-RELATED FACILITY. Any facility related to the public water system.
WATER TANK (ELEVATED, AT GRADE, UNDERGROUND). A large vessel or container for collecting and storing water.
WATER TREATMENT AND PURIFICATION FACILITY. A facility where raw water is treated to generate clean and safe water.
WEATHER STATIONS OR TRANSMITTERS (NONRESIDENTIAL). A facility for taking, recording, and reporting meteorological observations
WELLS. A hole drilled into an aquifer with a pipe, screen, and pump to pull water out of the ground.
WHOLESALE TRADE-DURABLE GOODS. Establishments that sell or arrange the purchase or sale of capital or durable goods to other businesses. These establishments wholesale products, such as motor vehicles, furniture, construction materials, machinery and equipment (including household-type appliances), metals and minerals (except petroleum), sporting goods, toys and hobby goods, recyclable materials, and parts. Durable goods generally have life expectancy of at least three years.
WHOLESALE TRADE-NONDURABLE GOODS. Establishments that sell or arrange the purchase or sale of nondurable goods to other businesses. These establishments wholesale products, such as paper products, chemicals, drugs, textiles, apparel, footwear, groceries, farm products, petroleum products, alcoholic beverages, books, magazines, newspapers, flowers, and tobacco products. Nondurable goods generally have a life expectancy of less than three years.
YARD. An open space not occupied or obstructed by any structure or portion of a structure, except fences as regulated and otherwise expressly provided for herein.
YARD, FRONT. A yard extending across the full width of the lot between the front lot line and the nearest line or point of the principal building.
YARD, REAR. A yard extending across the full width of the lot between the rear lot line and the nearest line or point of the principal building.
YARD, SIDE. A yard extending from the front yard to the rear yard between the side lot line and the nearest line or point of the building.
ZERO LOT LINE OR ROW HOUSES. The location of a building on a lot in such a manner that one or more of the building's sides rests directly on or immediately adjacent to the lot line.
ZONING MAP. A map that depicts land use zones, overlays, or districts.
ZOOLOGICAL PARKS. Special structures and enclosures for various zoological and botanical habitats. They also have extensive veterinary and animal services along with associated administration buildings.
(Ord. 3354, passed 4-8-2025)