A.

Home occupations shall be governed by the following regulations:

1)

Permitted home occupations shall include only the following uses:

a.

Art studio.

b.

Dressmaking.

c.

Professional offices of a clergyman, lawyer, physician, dentist, architect, engineer or accountant.

d.

Teaching, including musical instruments or dancing, but provided that the occupation does not constitute a public nuisance or otherwise interfere with the quiet use and enjoyment of adjoining or nearby properties.

e.

Day care homes which comply with the requirements of chapter 13 of the Hazel Crest Village Code

2)

Permitted home occupations may include the employment of one (1) person in addition to the occupant of the home in the performance of such services. In connection with a permitted home occupation, a small nonilluminated sign will be permitted which shall not exceed two (2) square feet. There shall be no exterior storage of equipment or materials used in such home occupations.

B.

Signs. Signs shall be in accordance with provisions set forth in subsequent articles of this appendix.

C.

Lot of record—Permitted variation of area.

1)

Any "lot of record" which is located in any residential district and which does not comply as to lot area with the requirements of the district in which it is located, may be used for the use permitted in the district, (R-0, R-1 and R-2 districts), other than a two-family or multiple-family structure provided the side yards, setbacks and other requirements of this appendix are complied with.

2)

Lot of record—Permitted variation of setback: The minimum setback requirement of this appendix may be reduced to seventy-five (75) per cent of the required setback, providing the existing adjoining building lines and setbacks are not exceeded.

A.

Permitted uses. Single-family detached dwellings.

B.

Special uses.

1.

Golf courses.

2.

Municipal or other governmentally owned recreational buildings and community centers.

3.

Parks and playgrounds.

4.

Planned developments, excluding multi-family apartment developments, on a tract of land not less than twenty (20) acres in area.

5.

Utility and public services, including electric substations, fire stations, police stations, water pumping stations.

C.

Lot area. Not less than ten thousand eight hundred seventy-five (10,875) square feet.

D.

Lot width. Not less than seventy-five (75) feet at the building setback line.

E.

Lot length. Minimum one hundred forty-five (145) feet.

F.

Building height. Not to exceed two and one-half (2½) stories or thirty-five (35) feet, whichever is lower.

G.

Floor area ratio. Not to exceed 0.4.

H.

Building area (usable floor area*). Twenty-four hundred (2,400) square feet.

(*Usable floor area shall mean the sum of the net horizontal area of all floors within outside walls of a residential building exclusive of areas in cellars, basements, unfinished attics, garages, open porches and accessory structures, but including any area that is roughed-in but not completed which is designed and intended for human occupancy.

I.

Front yard. Not less than thirty-five (35) feet in depth.

J.

Side yard.

1.

Two (2) side yards having a combined width of twenty (20) feet and neither side yard less than ten (10) feet in width.

2.

A side yard abutting a street not to be less than thirty-five (35) feet wide.

K.

Rear yard. Not less than forty (40) feet in depth.

L.

Off-street parking. Parking spaces in accordance with provisions set forth in article X of this appendix.

M.

Units per acre. 3.31.

A.

Permitted uses.

1)

Single-family detached dwellings.

2)

Home occupations, as regulated in this article.

3)

Parks and playgrounds—Publicly-owned and operated.

4)

Schools, nonboarding: Elementary, junior high, high or community college.

5)

Temporary buildings for construction purposes, only during the time construction or development is actively underway.

6)

Accessory uses to the above permitted uses.

B.

Special uses.

1)

Art galleries and museums.

2)

Churches and religious schools.

3)

Convents, monasteries and seminaries.

4)

Colleges and universities and uses accessory and incidental thereto, but not colleges or trade schools operated for profit.

5)

Golf courses.

6)

Libraries.

7)

Growing of farm crops in the open including truck gardens and nurseries, provided that no livestock, poultry or pigeons are kept and that no offensive odors or dusts are created; and further, that no retail sales are conducted on the premises.

8)

Municipally or nonprofit privately-owned recreational buildings and community centers.

9)

Planned developments, including multi-family apartment developments, on a tract of land not less than twenty (20) acres in area.

A tract of land may be decreased to ten (10) acres where the applicant has shown an exceptional need therefore based on the unique characteristics of the proposed development (Rev. 10/86).

10)

Planned business center: Any commercial development, consisting of one (1) or more buildings containing two (2) or more stores or offices with an aggregate gross floor space of more than twenty-thousand (20,000) square feet, which development may be planned or developed as a coordinated unit or which development may be characterized by an integrated arrangement of stores, offices, buildings, and facilities shall be considered a planned business center. A planned business center shall be considered as a single use for all purposes within the meaning and scope of this appendix and shall be permitted only by special permit as provided in article XIII, section 13.6 hereof.

A planned business center shall be established on tracts of land of not less than two and one-half (2.5) acres.

11)

Utility and public service uses including:

(a)

Electric substations.

(b)

Fire stations.

(c)

Police stations.

(d)

Railroad rights-of-way and passenger stations.

(e)

Telephone: Exchanges and transmission/equipment buildings.

(f)

Water filtration plants, pumping stations and reservoirs.

(g)

Gas regulators.

C.

Lot area (Rev. 5/22/74).

1.

Not less than seventy-two hundred (7,200) square feet.

2.

Corner lots not less than eighty-four hundred (8,400) square feet.

D.

Lot width (Rev. 5/22/74).

1.

Lot less than sixty (60) feet at the building setback line.

2.

Corner lots not less than seventy (70) feet at front building setback line.

E.

Floor area ratio—Nonresidential permitted uses and special uses. Not to exceed 0.6.

F.

Building height—Single-family dwelling uses. Not to exceed two and one-half (2½) stories, or thirty (30) feet, whichever is lower.

G.

Building area, excluding garage, per dwelling unit.

H.

Front yard—Single-family dwelling uses. Not less than twenty-five (25) feet in depth.

I.

Side yards—Single-family dwelling uses.

1.

Two (2) side yards having a combined width of twelve (12) feet and neither side yard less than six (6) feet in width.

2.

A side yard abutting a street not to be less than twenty-five (25) feet wide.

J.

Rear yard—Single-family dwelling uses. Not less than forty (40) feet in depth.

K.

Yards—Nonresidential permitted uses and special uses. Front, side and rear yards, as required for single-family dwelling uses for buildings less than thirty-five (35) feet in height; but for a building thirty-five (35) feet or more in height, each yard—front, side and rear, as required for single-family dwellings—shall be increased in width or depth by two (2) feet for each additional one (1) foot of building height over thirty-five (35) feet.

L.

Off-street loading—Nonresidential permitted uses and special uses. Loading berths in accordance with provisions set forth in article XII of this appendix.

M.

Off-street parking. Parking spaces in accordance with provisions set forth in article XII of this appendix.

A.

Permitted uses. Uses permitted in the R-1 district.

B.

Special uses. Special uses allowed in the R-1 district.

C.

Lot area. Not less than five thousand (5,000) square feet.

D.

Lot width. Not less than forty (40) feet at the building setback line.

E.

Floor area ratio—nonresidential permitted uses and special uses. Not to exceed 0.6.

F.

Building heights—single-family dwelling uses. Not to exceed two and one-half (2½) stories, or thirty (30) feet, whichever is lower.

H.

Front yard—Single-family dwelling uses. Not less than twenty (20) feet in depth.

I

Side yard—Single-family dwelling uses.

1.

Two (2) side yards having a combined width of twelve (12) feet and neither side yard less than six (6) feet in width.

2.

A side yard abutting a street not to be less than twenty (20) feet wide.

J.

Rear yard. Not less than thirty (30) feet in depth.

K.

Yards—Nonresidential permitted uses and special uses. Front, side and rear yards, as required for single-family dwelling uses for building less than thirty-five (35) feet in height; but for a building thirty-five (35) feet or more in height, each yard—front, side and rear, as required for single-family dwellings—shall be increased in width or depth by two (2) feet for each additional one (1) foot of building height over thirty-five (35) feet.

L.

Off-street loading—Nonresidential permitted uses and special uses. Loading berths in accordance with provisions set forth in article XII of this appendix.

M.

Off-street parking. Parking spaces in accordance with provisions set forth in article XII of this appendix.

A.

Permitted uses.

(1)

Two-family detached dwellings.

(2)

Multiple-family dwellings.

(3)

Libraries.

B.

Special uses.

(1)

Special uses allowed in the R-2 district, except libraries.

(2)

Hospitals.

(3)

Municipally-operated health centers.

(4)

Nursing care facilities.

(5)

Schools, boarding-nursery, elementary, junior high and high.

(6)

Domestic violence shelter facilities (Ord. [No.] 3-1984, 2/7/84).

(7)

Nonresidential walk-in counseling services for victims of domestic violence (Ord. [No.] 31-1984, 9/24/84).

C.

Lot area.

(1)

Each lot shall have a minimum area of ten thousand four hundred (10,400) square feet and a minimum width of eighty (80) feet at the building line, and the minimum lot area per dwelling unit shall be not less than five thousand, two hundred (5,200) square feet.

(2)

For multifamily buildings, each lot shall have a minimum area of twenty-four thousand (24,000) square feet and a minimum width at the building line of one hundred (100) feet, and the minimum lot area per dwelling unit and the allowable number of dwelling units per acre shall be in accordance with the following table (Ord. [No.] 6-1988):

*Total combined units per acre will not exceed ten (10) units.

D.

Lot width. For single-family dwellings, as in the R-1 district.

E.

Floor area ratio. Not to exceed 0.6.

F.

Lot coverage. The buildings, including accessory buildings, on any lot shall not cover, in the aggregate, more than thirty (30) per cent of the area of each lot.

G.

Front yard. Not less than twenty-five (25) feet in depth (Ord. [No.] 14-1979, 3/27/79).

H.

Side yard (Ord. [No.] 14-1979, 3/27/79).

(1)

For buildings one hundred (100) feet wide or less, the two (2) side yards shall have a combined width of twenty-four (24) feet. For buildings over one hundred (100) feet wide, each side-yard shall be not less than fifteen (15) feet in width.

(2)

A side yard abutting a street shall be not less than twenty-five (25) feet wide.

I.

Rear yard. Not less than fifty (50) feet in depth.

J.

Yards—General (Ord. [No.] 14-1979, 3/27/79).

(1)

Each side and rear yard as required above shall be increased in depth or width by two (2) feet for each additional one (1) foot of building height over thirty-five (35) feet.

(2)

Where R-3 development abuts an R-1 or R-2 residential area, the R-3 abutting yard shall be increased over base dimension by one (1) foot for each one (1) foot of building height.

K.

Off-street loading. Loading berths shall be provided in accordance with the provisions set forth in article XII of this zoning appendix.

L.

Off-street parking. Parking spaces shall be provided in accordance with the provisions set forth in article XII of this zoning appendix.

All open parking shall be located in the rear yard unless otherwise approved.