7.   Carports.

      8.   Public utility, communication, electric, gas, water and sewer lines, their supports and incidental equipment.

      9.   Roof-mounted and free-standing standalone ground- mounted solar panels.

ACREAGE: Any tract or parcel of land having an area of one acre or more which has not been subdivided by metes and bounds or platted.

ADULT-USE CANNABIS BUSINESS ESTABLISHMENT OR FACILITY: Facilities operating as an adult-use cannabis cultivation center, craft grower, processing organization, infuser organization, dispensing organization, or transporting organization.

ADULT-USE CANNABIS CRAFT GROWER: 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 a dispensing organization or use at a processing organization, per the Cannabis Regulation and Tax Act, (410 ILCS 705/1-10), as it may be amended from time-to-time, and regulations promulgated thereunder.

ADULT-USE CANNABIS CULTIVATION CENTER: 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, (410 ILCS 705/1-10), as it may be amended from time-to-time, and regulations promulgated thereunder.

ADULT-USE CANNABIS DISPENSING ORGANIZATION: 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 adult-use cannabis business establishments for the purpose of selling or dispensing cannabis, cannabis-infused products, cannabis seeds, cannabis paraphernalia or related supplies to purchasers or to qualified registered medical cannabis patients and caregivers, per the Cannabis Regulation and Tax Act. (410 ILCS 705/1-10), as it may be amended from time-to-time, and regulations promulgated thereunder.

ADULT-USE CANNABIS INFUSER ORGANIZATION OR INFUSER: 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, (410 ILCS 705/1-10), as it may be amended from time-to-time, and regulations promulgated thereunder.

ADULT-USE CANNABIS PROCESSING ORGANIZATION OR PROCESSOR: 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, (410 ILCS 705/1-10), as it may be amended from time-to-time, and regulations promulgated thereunder.

ADULT-USE CANNABIS TRANSPORTING ORGANIZATION OR TRANSPORTER: A facility operated by 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, (410 ILCS 705/1-10), as it may be amended from time-to-time, and regulations promulgated thereunder.

AGRICULTURE: Any one or any combination of the following: the growing of farm or truck garden crops, dairying, pasturage, horticulture, floriculture, or animal/poultry husbandry. The term "agriculture" encompasses the farmhouse and accessory uses and structures customarily incidental to agricultural activities.

AIRPORT AND AIRCRAFT LANDING FIELD: Any landing area, runway or other facility (including heliports) designed, used or intended to be used, either publicly or privately, by any person or persons for the landing and taking off of aircraft, including all necessary taxiways, aircraft storage and tie down areas, hangars and other necessary buildings and open space.

AIRPORT, MAJOR: Any airport or part thereof located within or outside the city limits, which has two (2) or more runways over five thousand feet (5,000') in length, including lengths of waterways, landing strips, or both.

ALLEY: A public way, not less than thirty feet (30') wide and not more than forty feet (40') wide, which affords only a secondary means of access to abutting property.

APARTMENT: A room or suite of rooms in a multiple-family structure, which is arranged, designed, used or intended to be used as a single housekeeping unit. Complete kitchen facilities, permanently installed, must always be included for each apartment.

AUTOMOBILE LAUNDRY: A building, or portion thereof, where automobiles are washed with the use of a chain conveyor and blower or steam cleaning device.

AUTOMOBILE REPAIR, MAJOR: Engine rebuilding or major reconditioning of worn or damaged motor vehicles or trailers; collision service, including body, frame or fender straightening or repair; and overall painting of vehicles.

AUTOMOBILE REPAIR, MINOR: Incidental repairs, replacement of parts and motor service to automobiles, but not including any operation specified under the definition of "automobile repair, major" in this section.

AUTOMOBILE SERVICE STATION: A place where gasoline, stored only in underground tanks, kerosene, lubricating oil or grease, for operation of automobiles, are offered for sale directly to the public on the premises, and including minor accessories and the services for automobiles, but not including major automobile repairs, and including washing of automobiles where no chain conveyor, blower or steam cleaning device is employed. When the dispensing, sale or offering for sale of motor fuels or oil is incidental to the conduct of a public garage, the premises shall be classified as a public garage. Automobile service stations shall not include sale or storage of junkers or junkyards as defined in this section.

AUTOMOBILE WRECKING YARD: Any place where two (2) 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 condition, and including the commercial salvaging of any other goods, articles or merchandise.

BASEMENT: A story, partly or wholly underground. Where more than one-half (1/2) of its height is above the established curb level or above the average level of the adjoining ground where curb level has not been established, a basement shall be counted as a story for purposes of height measurement.

GARAGE, BUS: Any building used or intended to be used for the storage of three (3) or more passenger motor buses, or motor coaches used in public transportation, including school buses.

GARAGE, PRIVATE: A detached accessory building, or portion of the principal building, designed, arranged, used or intended to be used for the storage of automobiles of the occupants of the premises.

GARAGE, PUBLIC: A building, other than a private garage, used for the care, incidental servicing and sale of automobile supplies, or where motor vehicles are parked or stored for remuneration, hire or sale within the structure, but not including trucks, tractors, truck-trailers and commercial vehicles exceeding one and one-half (11/2) tons' capacity.

GARAGE, TRUCK: A building which is used or intended to be used for the storage of motor trucks, truck-trailers, tractors and commercial vehicles exceeding one and one-half (11/2) tons' capacity.

GUESTHOUSE: Living quarters within a detached accessory building located on the same premises with the principal building, for use by temporary guests of the occupants of the premises. Such quarters shall have no kitchen facilities nor be rented or otherwise used as a separate dwelling.

HOME OCCUPATION: A gainful occupation or profession customarily carried on by an occupant of a dwelling unit as a use which is clearly incidental to the use of the dwelling unit for residential purposes. The home occupation shall be carried on wholly within the principal building or within a building accessory thereto, and only by members of the family occupying the premises and two (2) persons outside the family. No article shall be sold or offered for sale on the premises except such as is produced by the occupation on the premises. There shall be no exterior display, no exterior sign, except as allowed by the sign regulations for the district in which such home occupation is located, no exterior storage of materials, and no other exterior indication of the home occupation or variation from the residential character of the principal building, and no offensive noise, vibration, smoke, dust, odors, heat or glare shall be produced. The following uses, as defined in this title, are excluded from the provisions of the home occupation classification: automobile repair, major or minor; automobile wrecking yard; junkyard; used car lot; welding shops.

HOSPITAL OR SANATORIUM: An institution devoted primarily to the maintenance and operation of facilities for the diagnosis, treatment or care, for not less than twenty four (24) hours in any week, of three (3) or more nonrelated individuals suffering from illness, disease, or injury. The term "hospital", as used in this title, does not apply to institutions operating solely for treatment of insane persons, drug addicts, liquor addicts or other types of cases necessitating restraint of patients, and the term "hospital" shall not include convalescent, nursing, shelter or boarding homes.

HOTEL, APARTMENT: A building containing dwelling units or individual guestrooms, the majority of which are for permanent guests. Maid and janitor service may be provided, but kitchen facilities are not necessarily included.

HOTEL OR MOTEL: A building in which more than five (5) rooms or suites are reserved to provide living and sleeping accommodations for temporary guests, with no provisions in said rooms for cooking in any individual room or suite, except microwaves.

HOUSEHOLDER: The occupant of a dwelling unit who is either the owner or lessee thereof.

JUNKER: An automobile, truck or other motor vehicle which has been damaged to such an extent that it cannot be operated under its own power and will require major repairs before being made usable, or such a vehicle which does not comply with state or city vehicle laws or ordinances.

JUNKYARD OR SALVAGE YARD: The use of more than two hundred (200) square feet of any lot where waste, scrap metal, paper, rags or similar materials are bought, sold, exchanged, stored, baled, packed, disassembled or handled including auto and building wrecking yards, but excluding similar uses taking place entirely within a completely enclosed building.

KENNEL: Any lot or premises or portion thereof on which more than three (3) dogs, or more than three (3) cats, or more than three (3) other household domestic animals, excluding puppies, kittens, or other babies under six (6) months of age, are kept or in which more than three (3) such animals are boarded for compensation or kept for sale.

LABORATORY, COMMERCIAL: A place devoted to experimental study such as testing and analyzing. Manufacturing, assembly or packaging of products is not included within this definition.

LINE OF BUILDING (FOR MEASURING YARDS): A line parallel to the nearest lot line drawn through the point of a building or group of buildings nearest to such lot line, exclusive of such features specified as being permitted to extend into a yard.

LOADING AND UNLOADING SPACE, OFF STREET: An open or enclosed hard surfaced area of land, other than a street or public way, the principal use of which is for the standing, loading and unloading of motor trucks, tractors and trailers, to avoid undue interference with the public use of streets and alleys. Such space shall be not less than ten feet (10') in width, fifty five feet (55') in length and fourteen feet (14') in height, exclusive of access aisles and maneuvering space.

LODGING OR ROOMING HOUSE: A building with not more than five (5) guestrooms where lodging is provided for compensation pursuant to previous arrangement, but not open to the public or to overnight guests.

LOT: When used alone, shall mean a "zoning lot" unless the context of this title clearly indicates otherwise.

LOT, CORNER: A parcel of land situated at the intersection of two (2) or more streets or adjoining a curved street at the end of a block.

LOT COVERAGE: The area of a zoning lot occupied by the principal building or buildings and accessory buildings.

LOT DEPTH: The horizontal distance between the front and rear lot lines measured in the mean direction of the side lot lines.

LOT FRONTAGE: The front of a lot shall be that boundary of a lot along a public street; for a corner lot, the owner may elect either street line as the front lot line.

LOT, INTERIOR: A lot other than a corner or reversed corner lot.

LOT LINE, FRONT: The front property line of a zoning lot.

LOT LINE, INTERIOR: A side lot line in common with another lot.

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 lines other than front or rear lot lines are side lot lines.

LOT, REVERSED CORNER: A corner lot, the rear of which abuts upon the side of another lot, whether across an alley or not.

LOT, THROUGH: A lot having frontage on two (2) parallel or approximately parallel streets, and which is not a corner lot.

PARKING SPACE, AUTOMOBILE: Space within a public or private parking area, exclusive of access drives or alleys, ramps, columns, or office and work areas, for the storage of one passenger automobile or commercial vehicle under one and one-half (11/2) tons' capacity.

PET SHOP: See definition of Kennel.

PLANNED UNIT DEVELOPMENT (PUD): A residential or commercial development guided by a total design plan in which one or more of the zoning or subdivision regulations, other than use regulations, shall be permitted to be waived or varied to allow flexibility and creativity in site and building design and location, in accordance with general guidelines.

PORCH: A roofed over structure, projecting out from the wall or walls of a main structure and commonly open to the weather in part.

PUBLIC UTILITY: Any person, firm, corporation or municipal department, duly authorized to furnish under public regulation to the public, electricity, gas, steam, telephone, telegraph, transportation or water.

RAILROAD RIGHT OF WAY: A strip of land with tracks and auxiliary facilities for track operation, but not including depots, loading platforms, stations, train sheds, warehouses, car shops, car yards, locomotive shops or water towers.

RINGELMANN NUMBER: The number of the area on the Ringelmann chart that coincides most nearly with the visual density of emission.

RUNWAY: A strip or area of pavement used exclusively for the landing or taking off of aircraft, or for the movement of vehicles incidental to such use.

SETBACK LINE, BUILDING: See definition of Building Setback Line.

SMOKE UNITS: "Smoke units" represent the number obtained by multiplying the smoke density in Ringelmann numbers by the time of emission in minutes. For the purpose of this definition, Ringelmann density reading is made at least once every minute during the period of observation; each reading is then multiplied by the time in minutes during which it is observed; and the various products are added together to give the total number of "smoke units" observed during the total period under observation.

SPECIAL USE: Any use of land or buildings, or both, described and permitted herein, subject to the provisions of chapter 11 of this title.

STABLE, LIVERY: Any building, other than a private stable, designed, arranged, used or intended to be used for the storage of horses and horsedrawn vehicles, or both.

STORY: That portion of a building included between the surface of any floor and the surface of the floor next above it or, if there be no floor above it, then the space between the floor and the ceiling next above it. Any portion of a story exceeding fourteen feet (14') in height shall be considered as an additional story for each fourteen feet (14') or fraction thereof.

STORY, HALF: That portion of a building under a gable, hip or mansard roof, the wall plates of which, on at least two (2) opposite exterior walls, are not more than four and one-half feet (41/2') above the finished floor of such story. In the case of one-family dwellings, two-family dwellings and multiple-family dwellings less than three (3) stories in height, a half story in a sloping roof shall not be counted as a story for the purpose of this title. In the case of multiple- family dwellings three (3) or more stories in height, a half story shall be counted as a story.