A use or structure that:

A facility operated by an organization or business that is licensed by the Illinois Department of Agriculture to cultivate, dry, cure and package cannabis and perform other necessary activities to make cannabis available for sale at an adult-use dispensing organization or use at an adult-use processing organization, per the Cannabis Regulation and Tax Act, as amended, and regulations promulgated thereunder.

A facility operated by an organization or business that is licensed by the Illinois Department of Agriculture to cultivate, process, transport and perform necessary activities to provide cannabis and cannabis-infused products to licensed adult-use cannabis business establishments, per the Cannabis Regulation and Tax Act, as amended, and regulations promulgated thereunder.

A facility operated by an organization or business that is licensed by the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation to acquire cannabis from licensed cannabis business establishments for the purpose of selling or dispensing cannabis, cannabis-infused products, cannabis seeds, paraphernalia or related supplies to adult-use purchasers, per the Cannabis Regulation and Tax Act, as amended, and regulations promulgated thereunder.

An adult-use cannabis cultivation center, adult-use cannabis craft grower, adult-use cannabis processing organization, adult-use cannabis infuser organization, or adult-use cannabis transporting organization.

A facility operated by an organization or business that is licensed by the Illinois Department of Agriculture to directly incorporate cannabis or cannabis concentrate into a product formulation to produce a cannabis-infused product, per the Cannabis Regulation and Tax Act, as amended, and regulations promulgated thereunder.

An adult-use cannabis cultivation center, adult-use cannabis craft grower, adult-use cannabis processing organization, adult-use cannabis infuser organization, adult-use cannabis dispensing organization or adult-use cannabis transporting organization.

A facility operated by an organization or business that is licensed by the Illinois Department of Agriculture to either extract constituent chemicals or compounds to produce cannabis concentrate or incorporate cannabis or cannabis concentrate into a product formulation to produce a cannabis product, per the Cannabis Regulation and Tax Act, as it may be amended from time to time, and regulations promulgated thereunder.

An organization or business that is licensed by the Illinois Department of Agriculture to transport cannabis on behalf of an adult-use cannabis business establishment or a community college licensed under the Community College Cannabis Vocational Training Pilot Program, per the Cannabis Regulation and Tax Act, as amended, and regulations promulgated thereunder.

A room or suite of rooms used as a family dwelling, including bath and kitchen accommodations, located in a building in which there are three or more such rooms or suites.

See "dwelling, multiple."

General repair, engine rebuilding, rebuilding or reconditioning of motor vehicles; collision service, such as body frame or fender straightening and repair, overall painting, subject to the requirements of the Building Code. Storage of unlicensed vehicles, inoperative vehicles, repaired vehicles awaiting payment, or vehicles for the purpose of stripping parts, is prohibited.

A place where gasoline is stored only in underground tanks, kerosene or motor oil and lubricants or grease, for operation of automobiles, is retailed directly to the public on premises, including minor accessories and service for automobiles. Storage of unlicensed vehicles, inoperative vehicles, repaired vehicles awaiting payment, or vehicles for the purpose of stripping parts is prohibited.[1]

A story having part, but not more than 1/2, of its height below grade.

An open structure on two sides attached to and leading from the main building to the garage on the same lot.

Any structure designed or intended for the support, enclosure, shelter or protection of persons, animals, chattels or property. When a structure is divided into separate parts by unpierced walls extending from the ground up, each part is deemed a separate building.

The vertical distance from the first floor to the highest point of the coping of a flat roof or to the ridge of a gable, hip, gambrel or mansard roof.

Any adult-use cannabis dispensing organization or medical cannabis dispensing organization.

Any facility operated by an adult-use cannabis cultivation center, adult-use cannabis craft grower, adult-use cannabis processing organization, adult-use cannabis infuser organization, adult-use cannabis transporting organization, medical cannabis cultivation center, medical cannabis craft grower, medical cannabis processing organization, medical cannabis infuser organization, or medical cannabis transporting organization.

Any adult-use cannabis organization or medical cannabis organization.

An open, unoccupied space, other than a yard, which is bounded on two or more sides by a building or buildings.

A section or sections of the City of Hometown for which the regulations governing the use of buildings and premises or the height of buildings, or the size of yards, or intensity of use are uniform.

Any building, or portion thereof, which is designed or used exclusively for residential purposes.

A building designed for occupancy by one family.

A building designed for or occupied exclusively by two families on two separate lots sharing a single party wall.

A building designed for occupation by more than two families containing two or more dwelling units.

One or more persons, related by blood, adoption or marriage, living and cooking together as a single housekeeping unit, or a number of persons living and cooking together as a single housekeeping unit though not related by blood, adoption or marriage.[2]

An accessory building for housing motor-driven vehicles which are the property of and for the use of the occupants of the lot on which the private garage is located.

Any wall approximately parallel to and not more than five feet from a street line is to be considered as adjoining the street.

Any occupation or profession practiced by a member of the family residing on the premises, and which occupation is clearly incidental and secondary to the residential use of the dwelling. A home occupation is a use located and conducted so that the average neighbor, under normal circumstances, would not be aware of its existence. The operation of a home occupation is also subject to the following conditions and limitations:

An off-street space on the same lot with a building or group of buildings for temporary parking of a commercial vehicle while loading and unloading passengers, merchandise, or material.

A parcel of land intended for occupancy by a use permitted in this chapter, including one main building together with its accessory buildings, the open spaces and parking spaces required by this chapter and having its principal frontage upon a street or upon an officially approved place.

The lines bounding a lot as defined herein.

A lot which is a part of a subdivision, the map of which has been recorded in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of Cook County, Illinois; or a parcel of land, the deed of which was recorded in the Office of the Recorder of Deeds prior to the adoption of the ordinance.

The horizontal distance between the side lot lines, measured at right angles to the lot depth at a point midway between the front and rear lot lines.

A lot abutting upon two or more streets at their intersections.

The mean horizontal distance between the front and rear lot lines.

A lot having a frontage on two nonintersecting streets, as distinguished from a corner lot.

A facility operated by an organization or business that is licensed by the Illinois Department of Agriculture to cultivate, process, transport and perform necessary activities to provide cannabis and cannabis-infused products to licensed medical cannabis organizations, dispensing per the Compassionate Use of Medical Cannabis Program Act[4], as it may be amended from time to time, and regulations promulgated thereunder.

A facility operated by an organization or business that is licensed by the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation to acquire cannabis from licensed cannabis business establishments for the purpose of selling or dispensing cannabis, cannabis-infused products, cannabis seeds, paraphernalia or related supplies to registered qualifying patients, per the Compassionate Use of Medical Cannabis Program Act[5], as it may be amended from time to time, and regulations promulgated thereunder.

Both medical cannabis cultivation centers and medical cannabis dispensing organizations.

A medical cannabis cultivation center, medical cannabis processing organization, medical cannabis infuser organization, or medical cannabis transporting organization.

A facility operated by an organization or business that is licensed by the Illinois Department of Agriculture to directly incorporate cannabis or cannabis concentrate into a product formulation to produce a cannabis-infused product, per the Compassionate Use of Medical Cannabis Program Act, as amended, and regulations promulgated thereunder.

A medical cannabis cultivation center, medical cannabis processing organization, medical cannabis infuser organization, medical cannabis dispensing organization, or medical cannabis transporting organization.

A facility operated by an organization or business that is licensed by the Illinois Department of Agriculture to either extract constituent chemicals or compounds to produce cannabis concentrate or incorporate cannabis or cannabis concentrate into a product formulation to produce a cannabis product, per the Compassionate Use of Medical Cannabis Program Act, as amended, and regulations promulgated thereunder.

An organization or business that is licensed by the Illinois Department of Agriculture to transport cannabis on behalf of a medical cannabis business establishment, per the Compassionate Use of Medical Cannabis Program Act, as it may be amended from time to time, and regulations promulgated thereunder.

Any building or land lawfully occupied by a use at the time of passage of this chapter, or amendments thereto, which does not conform after the passage of this chapter, or amendments thereto, with the use regulations of the district in which it is situated.

A durably surfaced area designed to store one standard-size automobile. All parking stalls shall be at least nine feet in width. All parking spaces shall access directly upon an aisle or driveway of such design as to provide safe and efficient means of vehicular access. All new and existing parking areas shall be improved with paved brick, asphalt or concrete surface over a proper base.

An accessory structure being open on three sides attached to a garage; the overall size of both (garage and patio) may not be more than 20 feet in width and 22 feet in length; open sides can only be covered by ventilated screening or a continuous operable sash providing a minimum of 50% of floor area in ventilating openings except during the months of October through and including February when an operable and/or removable sash may be used in place of ventilating screening. A solid wall may be built around the patio no higher than 30 inches above the finished floor.

An open unoccupied space, other than a street or alley, permanently reserved as the principal means of access to abutting property.

A receptacle for water, or an artificial pool of water, having a depth at any point of more than 18 inches, intended for the purpose of immersion or partial immersion therein of human beings, and including all appurtenant equipment thereto.[6]

All property dedicated or intended for public or private streets, highway, freeway, or roadway purposes or subject to public easements.

That portion of the building, other than a cellar, included between the surface of any floor and the surface of the floor next above it or, if there is no floor above it, then the space between the floor and ceiling next above it.

A dividing line between a lot, tract or parcel of land and a contiguous street.

Anything constructed or erected, the use of which requires permanent location on the ground or attached to something having a permanent location on the ground, including, but without limiting, advertising signs, billboards, backstops, tennis courts, garages, walls or fences.

Any changes in the supporting members of a building, such as bearing walls and partitions, columns, beams, or girders, or any substantial change in the roof or in the exterior walls.

A level and rather narrow plane or platform which may be improved with a surface of concrete, masonry, or stone units which, for the purpose of this chapter, is located adjacent to one or more faces of the principal structure and which is constructed no higher than the height of the finished first floor, except a terrace located in the front yard may have a masonry wall or ornamental iron railings not more than three feet in height above mean grade, provided it does not project into the required front yard more than 12 feet and in a duplex district the wall or railing must be installed simultaneously and symmetrically on both lots of a duplex dwelling. Terraces shall be installed on a nonorganic base only; i.e., sand, concrete, or screening.

The purpose for which land or premises or a building thereon is designed, arranged, or intended, except as otherwise provided in this chapter.

An open space on the same lot with a building unoccupied and unobstructed by any portion of a structure from the ground upward, except as otherwise provided herein. In measuring the yard for the purpose of determining the width of a side yard, the depth of a front yard or the depth of the rear yard, the mean horizontal distance between the lot line and the main building shall be used.[7]

A yard extending across the front of a lot between the side yard lines and being the minimum horizontal distance between the street line and the main buildings or any projection thereof, other than the projection of the usual steps, entrance way, open terrace, bay windows, or eaves.

A yard extending across the rear of a lot measured between the side lot lines and being the minimum horizontal distance between the rear lot line and the rear of the main building or any projections other than steps, unenclosed balconies or unenclosed porches. On corner lots, the rear yard shall be considered as parallel to the street upon which the lot has its least dimension. On both corner lots and interior lots, the rear yard shall in all cases be at the opposite end of the lot from the front yard.

A yard between the main building and the side line or the lot and extending from the front lot line to the rear lot line.