Lisle City Zoning Code
CHAPTER 7
ALLOWED USES
5-7-1: GENERAL:
Principal uses are allowed in all zoning districts in accordance with the use table established in Section 5-7-4. (Ord. 2021-4931, 11-15-2021)
5-7-2: UNDERSTANDING THE USE TABLE:
A. For the purpose of this Zoning Ordinance, uses are classified into use categories and subcategories. Some subcategories are further divided to identify a specific use, business, or activity that is regulated differently than the subcategory. Use categories, subcategories, and specific use types are defined within this chapter.
B. Permitted uses. Uses identified with a “P” in the use table are permitted as-of-right in the subject zoning district. Permitted uses are subject to compliance with any use-specific standards identified in the final column of the table and with all other applicable regulations of this Zoning Ordinance.
C. Special uses. Uses identified with an “S” in the use table may be allowed if reviewed and approved in accordance with the special use permit procedures in Chapter 17 of this Zoning Ordinance. Special uses are subject to compliance with any use-specific standards identified in the final column of the table and with all other applicable regulations of this Zoning Ordinance.
D. Prohibited uses. Uses identified with an “-“ are expressly prohibited. Uses that are not listed in the use table and that cannot reasonably be interpreted to fall within a use category, subcategory, or specific use type are also prohibited. See Section 5-7-3-4 for use interpretation rules.
E. Use supplemental regulations. The “supplemental regulations” column of use table identifies use-specific standards that apply to some uses. Unless otherwise expressly stated, compliance with such standards is required regardless of whether the use is permitted as-of-right or requires special use approval.
F. Accessory uses. Accessory uses and structures are permitted in conjunction with allowed principal uses, provided they comply with all applicable regulations of Chapter 8 of this Zoning Ordinance. (Ord. 2021-4931, 11-15-2021)
5-7-3: USE CLASSIFICATIONS:
A. Use Categories. This Zoning Ordinance classifies principal uses into the following five use categories:
1. Residential
2. Public, Civic, and Institutional
3. Business
4. Industrial
5. Other
B. Use Subcategories. Each use category is further divided into more specific subcategories. Use subcategories classify principal uses and activities based on common function, products, or physical characteristics. Characteristics include the type and amount of activity, types of customers or residents, and how goods are produced, sold, or delivered.
1. Use subcategories may include a list of items or examples preceded by the phrase “typical uses include.” The listed items or examples are intended to assist with classification only. They are not to be construed as exhaustive lists of all possibilities.
C. Specific Use Types. Some use subcategories are further divided to identify a specific use, business, or activity that are regulated differently than the subcategory.
D. Determination of use category and subcategory
1. The Zoning Administrator is authorized to classify uses on the basis of use category and subcategory descriptions in this chapter.
2. When a use cannot be readily classified into a use category or subcategory or appears to fit into multiple categories or subcategories, the Zoning Administrator is authorized to determine the most similar, and most appropriate use category/subcategory based on the actual or projected characteristics of the principal use or activity in relationship to the use category and subcategory descriptions provided in this Chapter. In making such determinations, the Zoning Administrator is authorized to consider all of the following:
(a) The types of activities that will occur in conjunction with the use;
(b) The types of equipment and processes to be used;
(c) The existence, number and frequency of residents, customers or employees;
(e) Parking demands associated with the use; and
(e) Other factors deemed relevant to a use determination.
3. If a use can be classified in multiple categories, subcategories or specific use types, the Zoning Administrator must categorize the use in the category, subcategory or specific use type that provides the narrowest and restrictive match.
4. If the Zoning Administrator is unable to determine the appropriate use category for a proposed use, the Zoning Administrator is authorized to deny the permit request. This decision may be appealed in accordance with Chapter 17 of this Zoning Ordinance. (Ord. 2021-4931, 11-15-2021)
5-7-4: USE TABLE:
USE CATEGORY | Zoning Districts | |||||||||||||
Use Subcategory Specific Use type | R-1 | R-1A | R-2 | R-3 | R-4 | B-1 | B-2 | B-3A | B-3B | O | O-R | I-1 | C/U | Supplemental Regulations (Section) |
RESIDENTIAL | ||||||||||||||
USE CATEGORY | Zoning Districts | |||||||||||||
Use Subcategory Specific Use type | R-1 | R-1A | R-2 | R-3 | R-4 | B-1 | B-2 | B-3A | B-3B | O | O-R | I-1 | C/U | Supplemental Regulations (Section) |
RESIDENTIAL | ||||||||||||||
Household Living | ||||||||||||||
Detached House | P | P | P | P | P | – | – | – | S | – | – | – | – | |
Duplex | – | – | – | P | P | – | – | – | S | – | – | – | – | |
Townhouse | – | – | – | P | P | – | – | – | S | – | – | – | – | |
Multi-Unit | – | – | – | – | P | – | – | S | S | – | – | – | – | 5-7-5-A-4 |
Live-Work Unit | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | S | S | – | – | – | – | 5-7-5-A-5 |
Group Living (except as follows) | S | S | S | S | S | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | |
Community Residence | P/S | P/S | P/S | P/S | P/S | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 5-7-5-B-1 |
Student Housing | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | S | |
Nursing Home | – | – | – | – | S | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 5-7-5-B-3 |
Assisted Living Facility | – | – | – | – | S | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 5-7-5-B-4 |
PUBLIC, CIVIC AND INSTITUTIONAL | ||||||||||||||
Cemetery | S | – | – | – | S | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | S | 5-7-6-A |
College or University | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | S | S | – | P | |
Community Center | – | – | – | S | S | S | S | S | S | S | S | S | S | |
Cultural Institution | – | – | – | S | S | S | S | S | S | S | S | S | S | |
Fraternal Organization (except as follows) | – | – | – | – | – | S | S | S | S | S | – | S | – | |
Above or below ground floor | – | – | – | – | – | S | S | P | P | S | – | S | – | |
Government Facility | – | – | – | S | S | P | P | P | P | P | P | P | P | |
Library | S | S | S | S | S | P | P | P | P | P | P | S | P | |
Natural Resources Preservation | P | P | P | P | P | P | P | P | P | P | P | P | P | |
Public Parks and Recreation (except as follows) | P | P | P | P | P | P | P | P | P | P | P | P | P | |
Public Swimming Pools | S | – | – | – | – | – | S | – | – | – | – | S | S | |
Aquatic Recreation Facilities | S | – | – | – | – | – | S | – | – | – | – | S | S | |
Public Golf Courses | S | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | S | |
Religious Assembly | S | S | S | S | S | S | S | S | S | S | S | S | P | |
Safety Service | S | S | S | S | S | P | P | S | S | P | P | P | P | |
School | S | S | S | S | S | S | S | S | S | S | S | S | S | |
Utilities and Public Service Facilities | ||||||||||||||
Minor | P | P | P | P | P | P | P | P | P | P | P | P | P | |
Major | S | S | S | S | S | S | S | S | S | S | S | S | S | |
BUSINESS | ||||||||||||||
Animal Services | ||||||||||||||
Boarding or Shelter | – | – | – | – | – | – | S | – | – | – | – | S | – | 5-7-7-A-1 |
Grooming | – | – | – | – | – | S | S | – | S | S | – | S | – | 5-7-7-A-2 |
Pet Equipment or Supply Sales | – | – | – | – | – | P | P | P | P | P | – | P | – | |
Retail Sale of Animals | – | – | – | – | – | – | S | – | – | – | – | S | – | |
Veterinary Care | – | – | – | – | – | S | S | – | S | S | – | S | – | 5-7-7-A-5 |
Assembly and Entertainment | – | – | – | – | – | S | P | P | P | – | – | S | – | |
Business Services | ||||||||||||||
Body Art Services | – | – | – | – | – | – | S | – | – | – | – | S | – | |
Business Support Services | – | – | – | – | – | P | P | – | – | P | – | P | – | |
Construction Services | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | S | – | |
Consumer Repair or Maintenance Services | – | – | – | – | – | P | P | P | P | P | – | P | – | |
Fortune Telling And Psychic Services | – | – | – | – | – | – | S | – | – | – | – | S | – | |
Laundry and Dry Cleaning Pick Up Services | – | – | – | – | – | P | P | P | P | P | – | P | – | |
Personal Improvement Services | – | – | – | – | – | P | P | P | P | P | – | S | – | |
Small Engine Repair or Maintenance Services | – | – | – | – | – | – | P | – | – | – | – | P | – | |
Business or Vocational School | – | – | – | – | – | S | S | – | – | S | S | S | – | |
Day Care Services (except as follows) | – | – | – | – | – | S | P | S | S | S | – | – | – | |
Day Care Home | P | P | P | P | P | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | |
Drinking Establishment | – | – | – | – | – | – | P | S | S | P | – | S | – | |
Eating Establishment (except as follows) | – | – | – | – | – | P | P | P | P | P | P | S | – | |
Carry-out Establishment | – | – | – | – | – | P | P | S | P | – | – | S | – | |
Financial Services (except as follows) | – | – | – | – | – | P | P | P | P | P | P | – | – | |
Personal Credit Establishments | – | – | – | – | – | S | S | – | – | S | – | – | – | |
Funeral or Mortuary Services (except as follows) | – | – | – | – | – | S | P | – | – | S | – | – | – | |
Cremation Services | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | P | – | |
Lodging | – | – | – | – | – | – | P | S | S | – | P | – | – | |
Medical Services | ||||||||||||||
Medical Office (except as follows) | – | – | – | – | – | P | P | S | S | P | P | S | – | |
Above or below ground floor | – | – | – | – | – | P | P | S | P | P | P | S | – | |
Hospital | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | S | – | – | |
Alternative Healthcare Delivery Services | – | – | – | – | – | S | S | – | – | S | – | – | – | |
Health Care Facility | – | – | – | – | – | – | S | – | – | S | S | S | – | |
Motor Vehicle Sales or Services | ||||||||||||||
Fueling Station | – | – | – | – | – | – | S | – | – | – | – | S | – | 5-7-7-L-1 |
Heavy Motor Vehicle Sales | – | – | – | – | – | – | S | – | – | – | – | S | – | |
Light Motor Vehicle Sales | – | – | – | – | – | – | P | – | – | – | S | – | ||
Light Motor Vehicle Rental | – | – | – | – | – | – | S | – | – | – | – | S | – | |
Light Motor Vehicle Repair | – | – | – | – | – | – | S | – | – | – | – | S | – | |
Motor Vehicle Storage or Towing | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | S | – | |
Motor Vehicle Wash or Cleaning Services | – | – | – | – | – | – | S | – | – | – | – | S | – | |
Heavy Motor Vehicle Rental | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | S | – | |
Heavy Motor Vehicle Repair | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | S | ||
Office (except as follows) | – | – | – | – | – | P | P | S | S | P | P | P | – | |
Above or Below Ground Floor | – | – | – | – | – | P | P | P | P | P | P | P | – | |
Research and Development Services | – | – | – | – | – | P | P | – | – | P | P | P | – | |
Retail (except as follows) | – | – | – | – | – | P | P | P | P | – | – | P | – | |
Building Supply Services | – | – | – | – | – | – | S | – | – | – | – | S | – | |
Firearms Dealer | – | – | – | – | – | – | S | – | – | – | – | S | – | 5-7-7-O-2 |
Sexually Oriented Business | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | S | – | 5-7-7-P |
Sports or Recreation (except as follows) | – | – | – | – | – | – | S | – | – | – | – | S | P | |
Driving Range | S | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | S | P | |
Golf Entertainment Facility | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | S | – | |
INDUSTRIAL | ||||||||||||||
Artisan | – | – | – | – | – | P | P | P | P | P | – | P | – | |
Data Center | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | P | – | |
Limited Industrial (except as follows) | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | P | – | |
Electronics Industries | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | P | P | – | |
Brewing, Distilling, or Winemaking | – | – | – | – | – | – | P | S | S | S | – | P | – | |
Catering Services | – | – | – | – | – | P | P | S | S | P | – | P | – | |
Recyclable Material Drop-Off Facility | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | S | – | |
Recyclable Material Processing Facility | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | S | – | |
Self-Storage Facility | – | – | – | – | – | – | S | – | – | – | – | S | – | 5-7-8-F |
Wholesale, Distribution, and Warehousing | ||||||||||||||
Freight Terminal Facility | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | S | – | |
Warehousing | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | P | – | |
Wholesale Operations | – | – | – | – | – | – | S | – | – | – | – | P | – | |
OTHER | ||||||||||||||
Aircraft Landing Area | – | – | – | – | – | – | S | – | – | – | – | S | S | |
Community Garden | P | P | P | P | P | P | P | P | P | P | P | P | P | |
Medical Cannabis Dispensing | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | S | – | |
Open Space | P | P | P | P | P | P | P | P | P | P | P | P | P | |
Parking Garage | – | – | – | – | – | S | S | S | S | S | S | S | S | |
Parking - Non Accessory | – | – | – | – | – | S | S | S | S | S | – | S | – | |
Parking - Public | P | P | P | P | P | P | P | P | P | P | P | P | P | |
Planned Unit Development [1][2] | S | S | S | S | S | S | S | S | S | S | S | S | S | See Chapter 18 |
Public Transportation Facility | – | – | – | – | – | S | S | S | S | S | S | S | S | |
[1] A planned unit development shall be required for the establishment of any new special use on a parcel 5 acres or greater in size.
[2] A planned unit development shall be required for the establishment of any new permitted use or special use on a parcel 5 acres or greater in size in the I-1 zoning district.
(Ord. 2021-4931, 11-15-2021; amd. Ord. 2022-4972, 8-1-2022; Ord. 2023-5028, 9-18-2023)
5-7-5: RESIDENTIAL USE CATEGORY:
A. Household Living
Residential occupancy of a dwelling unit by a household. When dwelling units are rented, tenancy shall arranged on a month-to-month or longer basis. Uses where tenancy may be arranged for a shorter period are not considered residential; they are considered a form of lodging. The following are household living specific use types:
1. Detached House
A detached house is a principal residential building occupied by a household consisting of one dwelling unit located on a single lot with private yards on all sides. Detached houses are not attached to and do not abut other dwelling units. A detached house is not a manufactured home as defined by the National Manufactured Housing Construction and Safety Standards Act of 1974 (42 U.S.C. §§ 5401, et seq.). Manufactured homes are expressly prohibited in the Village.
2. Duplex
A duplex is a principal residential building consisting of 2 attached dwelling units. Each dwelling unit is occupied by a household. The dwelling units may be located on separate floors or side-by-side. Each dwelling unit has its own external entrance.
3. Townhouse
A townhouse is a principal residential building consisting of 3 or more attached dwelling units. Each dwelling unit is occupied by a household. The dwelling units may be located on separate floors or side-by-side. Each dwelling unit has its own external entrance.
4. Multi-Unit
A multi-unit is a principal residential building consisting of 3 or more attached dwelling units. Each dwelling unit is occupied by a household. The dwelling units may be located on separate floors or side-by-side. Each dwelling unit does not have its own external entrance. A live-work unit shall not be considered a multi-unit dwelling unit. A multi-unit building in the B-3A zoning district is subject to the following supplemental use regulations:
(a) The ground floor area of ground floor multi-unit dwellings shall occupy not more than 12.5% of the lot area of the lot on which they are located.
(b) Ground floor multi-unit dwellings are prohibited on lot frontage of Main Street, Ogden Avenue, Burlington Avenue, Route 53, Garfield Avenue, School Street, and Front Street.
(c) Ground floor multi-unit dwellings are prohibited on lots with a lot area of less than 2.5 acres.
5. Live-Work Unit
A live-work unit is a single unit consisting of both a business use and a dwelling that is occupied by the same resident. A live-work unit is distinct from a multi-unit dwelling. Live-work units are subject to the following supplemental regulations:
(a) In the B-3A zoning district, live-work units shall not occupy more than 35% of the lot frontage of the lot on which they are located.
(b) The work component shall be located along the lot frontage.
(c) Live-work units are prohibited on lot frontage of Main Street, Ogden Avenue, Burlington Avenue, Route 53, Garfield Avenue, School Street, and Front Street.
(d) The external access for the work component shall be oriented to the lot frontage and should have at least one external entrance/exit separate from the live space. The entrance to the work component shall be located on the ground level. Access to the work component of each live-work unit shall be clearly separate from the common walkways or entrances to the other residential units within the development, or other residential units in adjacent developments.
(e) The live and work space must be occupied by the same tenant, and no portion of the live-work unit may be rented or sold separately.
(f) The outdoor storage or display of materials, goods, supplies or equipment related to the operation of a live-work unit, including vehicles associated with the operation of a livery service operating from the live-work unit, is prohibited.
(g) Prohibited Uses. The following uses, as defined in Chapter 7 of this Zoning Ordinance, are expressly prohibited within live-work units:
(1) Group Living;
(2) Animal Services;
(3) Assembly and Entertainment;
(4) Body Art Services;
(5) Day care services, including daycare homes;
(6) Drinking establishments;
(7) Firearms dealer;
(8) Fortune Telling and Psychic Services;
(9) Personal Credit Establishments;
(10) Funeral or Mortuary Services;
(11) Sports or Recreation;
(12) Industrial Uses, except artisan;
(13) Laundry and Dry Cleaning Pick Up Services;
(14) Lodging;
(15) Medical Cannabis Dispensing;
(16) Medical services, except Medical Offices;
(17) Motor Vehicles Sales or Services;
18) Personal Credit Establishments;
(19) Public, Civic, and Institutional Uses;
(20) Sexually Oriented Businesses;
(21) Residential, within the floor area dedicated as the work area;
(22) Small Engine Repair or Maintenance Services; and
(23) Sports and Recreation.
B. Group Living
Residential occupancy of a building or any portion of a building by a group other than a household. Group living uses typically provide communal kitchen/dining facilities. Examples of group living uses include group homes, convents, monasteries, nursing homes, assisted living facilities, sheltered care facilities, retirement centers, homeless centers, shelters and halfway houses. The group living specific use types are as follows:
1. Community Residence Facility
A group home or specialized residential care home serving persons with disabilities. A community residence does not include a residence that serves persons as an alternative to incarceration for a criminal offense. Community residence facilities are subject to the following supplemental use regulations:
(a) A community residence facility is a special use if located within 660 linear feet of an existing or approved community residence facility, as measured from lot line to lot line.
2. Student Housing
A dwelling for students that is owned or operated by a college or university.
3. Nursing Home
A “long-term care facility,” as defined by the Nursing Home Care Act (210 ILCS 45/), as amended.
4. Assisted Living Facility
As defined by the Assisted Living and Shared Housing Act (210 ILCS 9/), as amended. (Ord. 2021-4931, 11-15-2021; amd. Ord. 2023-5028, 9-18-2023)
5-7-6: PUBLIC, CIVIC AND INSTITUTIONAL USE CATEGORY:
A. Cemetery
Land or structures used for burial or permanent storage of the dead or their cremated remains. Typical uses include cemeteries and mausoleums. Also includes pet cemeteries. Cemeteries are subject to the following supplemental use regulations:
1. Cemeteries in the R-1 zoning district shall meet a minimum lot area of 2 acres.
B. College or University
Institutions of higher learning that offer courses of general or specialized study and are authorized to grant academic degrees. They are certified by the state or by a recognized accrediting agency. This term includes nursing and medical schools not accessory to a hospital, conservatories and seminaries. Business and vocational schools are classified in the Business Use Category.
C. Community Center
The use of a building that is owned, leased or otherwise controlled by a unit of local government or a civic, educational, religious or charitable organization for purposes of meetings, gatherings or other functions or activities carried on or performed by or under the supervision of a unit of local government or a civic, educational, religious or charitable organization. The authorization for a community center includes authorization for the accessory sale or resale of food, merchandise or services in connection with and in support of the principal activity or function being carried on. Also includes food pantries.
D. Cultural Institution
Museum-like preservation and exhibition of objects in one or more of the arts and sciences, gallery exhibitions of works of art and similar institutions.
E. Fraternal Organization
The use of a building or lot by a not-for-profit organization that restricts access to its facility to bona fide, annual dues-paying members and their occasional guests and where the primary activity is a service not carried on as a business enterprise.
F. Government Facility
Administrative offices associated with local, state or federal government services or functions. This term does not include safety service or other public or quasi-public uses specifically identified as a use subcategory or specific use type. The government facility specific use types are as follows:
G. Library
A place where literary, educational, artistic, and/or reference materials such as books, periodicals, and digital content are kept for use or public lending as defined by the Illinois Library System Act (75 ILCS 10/), as amended. This term includes targeted services and programs with the mission of educating, informing, and/or entertaining a variety of patrons/audiences. Libraries are controlled by a unit of local government, academic institution, non-profit, or may be privately controlled. The authorization for a library includes permissions for the accessory sale of books, food, beverages, and relevant library items such as devices to aid in utilization of library equipment
H. Natural Resources Preservation
Land used as visual open space or environmental purposes. Typical uses include wildlife or nature preserves, arboretums and flood management projects. Also includes historic preservation efforts promoting the conservation of buildings, structures, and landscapes.
I. Public Parks and Recreation
Recreational, social or multi-purpose uses associated with public parks or open spaces controlled by a unit of local government, including playgrounds, playfields, play courts, public swimming pools, and aquatic recreation facilities. This term also includes public golf courses. This use subcategory is distinct from the Sports and Recreation use subcategory, which is a business use. The following are public parks and recreation specific use types:
1. Public Swimming Pools
An artificial pool or receptacle for water having a depth of more than two feet at any point that is intended for swimming or bathing.
2. Aquatic Recreation Facilities
A facility that is designed for free-form aquatic play and recreation. The facilities may include, but are not limited to, wave or surf action pools, leisure rivers, sand bottom pools, vortex pools, activity pools, inner tube rides, body slides, and interactive play attractions.
3. Public Golf Courses
An area of land laid out for golf with a series of 9 or 18 holes each including tee, fairway and putting green with natural or artificial hazards.
J. Religious Assembly
Religious services involving public assembly that customarily occur in churches, synagogues, temples, mosques and other facilities used for religious worship.
K. Safety Service
Facilities provided by the local, state or federal government that provide fire, police or life protection, together with the incidental storage and maintenance of necessary vehicles, materials, and equipment. Typical uses include fire stations, police stations, and public works facilities.
L. School
Schools at the primary, elementary, junior high or high school level that provide basic, compulsory state-mandated education. The term school includes both public and private schools.
M. Utilities and Public Service Facilities
1. Minor
Infrastructure services that need to be located in or close to the area where the service is provided. Minor utilities and public service facilities generally do not have regular employees at the site and typically have few if any impacts on surrounding areas. Typical uses include water and sewer pump stations; gas regulating stations; underground electric distribution substations; electric transformers; water conveyance systems; stormwater facilities and conveyance systems; telephone switching equipment and emergency communication warning/broadcast facilities.
2. Major
Infrastructure services that typically have substantial visual or operational impacts on nearby areas. Typical uses include but are not limited to water and wastewater treatment facilities, high-voltage electric substations, utility-scale power generation facilities (including wind, solar and other renewable and nonrenewable energy sources), sanitary landfills and utility-scale water storage facilities, such as water towers and reservoirs. (Ord. 2021-4931, 11-15-2021)
5-7-7: BUSINESS USE CATEGORY:
A. Animal Services
Uses that provide goods and services for care of companion animals. The following are animal services specific use types:
1. Boarding or Shelter
Animal shelters, care services and kennel services for dogs, cats and companion animals, including boarding kennels, pet resorts/hotels, pet day care pet adoption centers, dog training centers and animal rescue shelters. For purposes of this ordinance, the keeping of more than four dogs or cats, or any combination thereof, over the age of four months in an R-district shall be deemed a boarding or shelter-related animal service use and is allowed only in those zoning districts that allow such principal uses. Boarding and shelter uses are subject to the following supplemental use regulations:
(a) Outdoor runs and exercise areas must be enclosed by a fence or wall that is a minimum of five feet in height.
(b) Animals must be kept within an enclosed building between the hours of 9:00 p.m. and 7:00 a.m.
2. Grooming
Grooming of dogs, cats and similar companion animals, including dog bathing and clipping salons and pet grooming shops.
(a) Outdoor runs and exercise areas must be enclosed by a fence or wall that is a minimum of five feet in height.
(b) Animals must be kept within an enclosed building between the hours of 9:00 p.m. and 7:00 a.m.
3. Pet Equipment and Supply Sales
Business involved in the sale of new products or merchandise to consumers for the care of pets, including the sale of pet food.
4. Retail Sale of Animals
To display, sell, deliver, offer for sale or adoption, advertise for sale of, barter, auction, give away or otherwise dispose of an animal. The retail sale of dogs and cats is prohibited in accordance with Title 3 of the Lisle Village Code.
5. Veterinary Care
The practice of veterinary medicine by a veterinarian, licensed by the State of Illinois. Meaning to diagnose, prognose, treat, correct, change, alleviate, or prevent animal disease, illness, pain, deformity, defect, injury, or other physical, dental, or mental conditions by any method or mode as defined by the Illinois Veterinary Medicine and Surgery Practice Act. Typical uses include veterinary clinics and animal hospitals. The authorization for veterinary care includes the authorization for accessory retail sale of animals, boarding of animals, grooming, and pet equipment and supply sales.
(a) Outdoor runs and exercise areas must be enclosed by a fence or wall that is a minimum of five feet in height.
(b) Animals must be kept within an enclosed building between the hours of 9:00 p.m. and 7:00 a.m.
B. Assembly and Entertainment
Uses that provide indoor gathering places for recreation, entertainment or other assembly activities. Assembly and entertainment uses may provide accessory food or beverage service. Typical uses include billiard centers, video game arcades, auditoriums, bowling centers, cinemas, theaters, indoor or outdoor banquet halls, and instructional recreation. Instructional recreation includes, but is not limited to, cooking classes, painting classes, and other instructional classes offered for the purpose of social gathering and entertainment.
C. Business Services
1. Body Art Services
Tattoo and body piercing establishments as defined by 410 ILCS 54/.
2. Business Support Services
Uses that provide personnel services, printing, copying, photographic services, or communication services to businesses or consumers. Typical uses include employment agencies, copy and print shops, telephone answering services and photo developing labs.
3. Construction Services
Uses that provide contractor services in the construction trades that include outdoor storage. Construction services includes landscape installation and maintenance contractors. Uses that involve office or administrative functions only, with no outdoor storage are classified as offices.
4. Consumer Repair or Maintenance Services
Uses that provide maintenance, cleaning and repair services for consumer goods on a site where customers bring goods to the site of the repair/maintenance business. Typical consumer repair and maintenance service uses include , tailors, taxidermists, dressmakers, shoe repair, picture framing shops, locksmiths, vacuum repair shops, electronics repair shops and similar establishments. Business that offer repair and maintenance service technicians who visit customers’ homes or places of business are classified as a construction service or office.
5. Fortune Telling and Psychic Services
Any method of prognostication, telling the future, foretelling impending or future events, whether or not such services are by means of card reading, tarot cards, palm reading, metaphysics, crystals, crystal balls or other means, or if compensation is received for such services.
6. Laundry and Dry Cleaning Pick Up Services
Uses that provide laundry cleaning or dry cleaning pick-up services on a site where consumers bring goods to the site and pick up goods after such services has been rendered by the business. Laundry and dry cleaning pick up services do not include commercial laundry facilities. Commercial laundry facilities are classified as a limited industrial use.
7. Personal Improvement Services
Uses that provide a variety of services associated with personal grooming, instruction and maintenance of fitness, health and well-being. Typical uses include barbers; hair and nail salons; day spas; health clubs; yoga and fitness studios; martial arts studios; music, dance, drama, fine arts, language and similar instruction; photography studios and similar establishments.
8. Small Engine Repair or Maintenance Services
Uses that provide maintenance and repair of low-power internal combustion engines (gasoline/petrol) or electric engines. Typical equipment includes chain saws, string trimmers, leaf blowers, snow blowers, lawn mowers, wood chippers, and go-karts.
D. Business or Vocational School
Uses in an enclosed building that focus on teaching the skills needed to perform a particular job. Examples include schools of cosmetology, modeling academies, computer training facilities, trade schools, administrative business training facilities, career based instruction and similar uses. Truck driving schools are classified in the Wholesale, Distribution, and Warehousing use subcategory.
E. Day Care Services
Uses providing care, protection and supervision for children or adults on a regular basis away from their primary residence for less than 24 hours per day. Examples include state-licensed day care centers, preschools, nursery schools, head start programs, after-school programs and adult day care facilities. Day care expressly includes state-accredited adult day care facilities and facilities for childcare, as defined in the Illinois Child Care Act. The following are day care services specific use types:
1. Day Care Home
A dwelling unit in which day care services are provided and licensed by the State of Illinois.
F. Drinking Establishment
A building or portion thereof where liquor, beer, wine, or other alcoholic beverages are sold to be consumed on the premises, but not including eating establishments where the principal use is serving food. Drinking establishments are subject to the Village’s Liquor Control Regulations.
G. Eating Establishment
A building or portion thereof within which food is prepared and offered for sale to be consumed on the premises. The authorization of an eating establishment includes authorization for liquor, beer, wine, or other alcoholic beverages to be consumed on the premises. An establishment where liquor, beer, wine, or other alcoholic beverages are sold to be consumed on premise that only offers prepackaged food items or the availability of food produced offsite shall be classified as a drinking establishment. Eating establishments are subject to the Village’s Liquor Control Regulations. The following are eating establishment specific use types:
1. Carry-out Establishment
A building or portion thereof within which food is prepared and offered for sale to be consumed off premise. A carry-out establishment does not offer seating for on premise consumption.
H. Financial Services
Uses related to the exchange, lending, borrowing or safe-keeping of money. Automatic teller machines, kiosks or similar facilities that do not have on-site employees are not classified as financial service uses if they meet the criteria for classification as an accessory use in accordance with Chapter 9 of this ordinance. Typical uses include banks or credit unions. The following are financial services specific use types:
1. Personal Credit Establishments
The personal credit establishment specific use type is defined as follows:
(a) Pawnshops or pawn brokers (as defined in 205 ILCS 510/);
(b) Establishments that provide (vehicle) title-secured loans or payday loans (as defined in 815 ILCS 122/) and similar services;
(c) Establishments primarily engaged in buying jewelry or other items made of sterling silver or gold, or silver coins, or bullion to or from the public within the village from a fixed and regular place of business.
(d) Currency exchanges or check-cashing facilities that are primarily engaged in the business of cashing checks, drafts, money orders or traveler’s checks, exchanging currency, notarizing documents, selling vehicles license tags or transmitting money within the United States or overseas by any means for a fee.
I. Funeral or Mortuary Services
Uses that provide services related to the death of a human, including funeral homes, mortuaries, or similar uses. The authorization for funeral or mortuary services includes authorization for cremation services as an accessory use. Funeral or mortuary services specific use types are as follows:
1. Cremation Services
The technical process, using heat and flame, or alkaline hydrolysis that reduces human remains to bone fragments. The reduction takes place through heat and evaporation or through hydrolysis. Cremation shall include the processing, and may include the pulverization, of the bone fragments. The cremation services specific use type includes companion animal crematoriums. Uses consisting of cremation services as a principal use shall be defined as cremation services.
J. Lodging
Uses that provide temporary lodging for less than 30 days where rents are charged by the day or by the week. Lodging uses may provide food, beverage, or entertainment offered primarily to registered guests. Authorization for lodging includes authorization for accessory banquet facilities for use by non-registered guests.
K. Medical Services
1. Medical Office
Uses related to diagnosis and treatment of human patients’ illnesses, injuries and physical maladies that can be performed in a primary care office setting. This includes rehabilitation services provided by physicians, dentists, nurses and other health personnel and medical testing and analysis services. Typical uses include medical and dental offices, including chiropractic offices, physical therapy and massage establishment offices, psychologist and psychiatrist offices.
2. Hospital
As defined by the Hospital Licensing Act (210 ILCS 85/), as amended.
3. Alternative Healthcare Delivery Services
Uses providing inpatient (patient may be admitted for more than a 24 hour period) care. Typical uses include birthing centers, postsurgical recovery care, subacute care centers, transitional care or residential rehabilitation centers.
4. Health Care Facility
Uses providing inpatient care (admitted for more than a 24 hour period) or outpatient care (admitted for less than a 24 hour period). Typical uses include ambulatory surgical treatment facilities, urgent and immediate care centers, or specialized services such as, kidney disease treatment centers, cancer treatment centers, and cardiac centers.
L. Motor Vehicle Sales or Services
Uses that provide for the sale, rental, maintenance or repair of new or used motor vehicles or vehicular equipment. The motor vehicle sales or services subcategory includes the following specific use types:
1. Fueling Station
Uses engaged in retail sales of conventional or alternative vehicle fuels, including electric vehicle charging stations. Authorization for a fueling station includes authorization for accessory retail, eating establishments, or vehicle wash or cleaning services. Fueling station uses are subject to the following supplemental use regulations:
(a) Fueling stations shall provide no more than one designated diesel pump island.
(b) Fueling stations shall provide no more two diesel pumps.
2. Heavy Motor Vehicle Sales
The sale or lease of motor vehicles weighing more than 8,000 pounds.
3. Light Motor Vehicle Sales
The sale or lease of motor vehicles weighing 8,000 pounds or less.
4. Light Motor Vehicle Rental
Uses primarily engaged in the rental of motor vehicles weighing 8,000 pounds or less.
5. Light Motor Vehicle Repair
The maintenance or engine/system repair services to motor vehicles, including lubrication and/or checking, changing, or additions of those fluids and filters necessary to the maintenance of a vehicle weighing 8,000 pounds or less. Also includes vehicle repair establishments that provide replacement of vehicle parts or repairs, body work or painting, or removal of the engine head or pan, or engine transmission or differential services.
6. Motor Vehicle Storage or Towing
Storage of operating motor vehicles or vehicle towing services. Typical uses include towing services, tow lots, impound yards, commercial vehicle storage yards, or vehicle storage yards for transportation services (buses, passenger vans, or similar motor vehicles).
7. Motor Vehicle Wash or Cleaning Services
A building or site containing facilities for washing motor vehicles. It may use automatic production line methods-a chain conveyor, blower, steam cleaning device, or other mechanical device-or it may provide space, water or equipment for hand washing, cleaning or detailing of motor vehicles, whether by the customer or the operator.
8. Heavy Motor Vehicle Rental
Uses primarily engaged in the rental of motor vehicles weighing more than 8,000 pounds.
9. Heavy Motor Vehicle Repair
The maintenance or engine/system repair services to motor vehicles, including lubrication and/or checking, changing, or additions of those fluids and filters necessary to the maintenance of a vehicle weighing more than 8,000 pounds. Also includes vehicle repair establishments that provide replacement of vehicle parts or repairs, body work or painting, or removal of the engine head or pan, or engine transmission or differential services.
M. Office
Uses in an enclosed building that focus on providing executive, management, administrative, or professional services. Typical uses include nongovernmental corporate offices, law offices, architectural firms, insurance companies, executive management or administrative offices for businesses or corporations, or professional testing centers.
N. Research and Development Services
Uses engaged in scientific research or testing services leading to the development of new products or processes. Such uses resemble office buildings and do not involve the mass production, distribution or sale of products. Research services do not produce odors, dust, noise, vibration or other external impacts that are detectable beyond the property lines of the subject property. Research and development services includes medical laboratories that do not have onsite patient services.
O. Retail
Uses involving the sale, lease or rental of new or used goods directly to the consumer. Retail includes all new or used goods unless such goods are identified elsewhere in this ordinance. Retail specific use types are as follows:
1. Building Supply Services
Retail sales uses that sell or otherwise provide goods to repair, maintain or visually enhance a structure or premises. Typical uses include lumber yards, home improvement centers, or garden supply stores. Building Supply Services that do not include outdoor storage are classified as retail.
2. Firearms Dealer
Any retail activity requiring a dealer or broker type Federal Firearms License.
(a) Firearms dealers or brokers must install and maintain an electronic security system that emits an audible alarm at the firearms dealer’s place of business when triggered. The security system must also transmit a silent alarm directly to a public safety agency. If the public safety agency with jurisdiction over the firearms dealer property does not allow for direct transmission of alarm signals, the security system must transmit an alarm signal to a UL-approved monitoring station that must, within two minutes, provide notification to a public safety agency with jurisdiction over the firearms dealer property.
P. Sexually Oriented Business
1. Any of the following when done in a place where the public is invited or permitted, or when done for any commercial purpose including sale or rental, regardless of who pays or receives the consideration therefor, and regardless of the form of consideration:
(a) Exhibition or display of a natural person or people in the state of nudity or seminudity, or engaged in specified sexual activities or excretory functions;
(b) Premises with a sexually oriented amusement device;
(c) Rental or leasing of a hotel room, motel room or similar room for a period not exceeding ten (10) hours, but not including dining rooms, banquet rooms, ballrooms, conference rooms or similar facilities unless they are used or to be used for specified sexual activities or excretory functions;
(d) Offering of physical contact in the form of wrestling or tumbling between natural persons of the opposite sex, when one or more of the persons is nude or seminude, and also the offering of physical contact which constitutes specified sexual activities regardless of the sex of the person performing or receiving the contact;
(e) Offering of products, services or activities by or with a natural person or people when one or more of the people, whether a patron, agent, employee or otherwise, is in a state of nudity or seminudity;
(f) Displaying or offering to others any recorded depiction of a natural person, or created image or character, as in cartoons or animation, by any medium, including, without limitation, film, videotape, closed circuit television, digital video disc (DVD), laser disc, compact disc (CD), floppy disc, photograph, slide, television, book, magazine, and computer software, which is:
(1) Characterized or distinguished by an emphasis on the depiction or description of specified sexual activities, excretory functions, or specified anatomical areas; or
(2) Advertised or otherwise held out to the public as being characterized or distinguished by an emphasis on the depiction or description of specified sexual activities, excretory functions, or specified anatomical areas, including, without limitation, the use of the term “adult” and the use of the designation of one or more “X” such as, but not limited to, “XXX”;
(g) The display or offering to others of novelties, instruments, devices, or paraphernalia that are designed primarily for use in connection with specified sexual activities or that give the appearance of or simulate any of the specified anatomical areas.
2. Sexually oriented businesses must comply with the following setback requirements:
(a) No sexually oriented business shall be located within 450 feet of any other sexually oriented business, measured lot line to lot line, and any school, daycare center, cemetery, public park including any linear recreational area like a bike path, public housing, place of religious worship, lot zoned for residential purposes, and lot used for residential purposes; and
(b) Within 500 feet of the centerline of Ogden Avenue, which 500 feet shall be measured from the nearest point of the building, or portion of the building in which the sexually oriented business is located to the nearest point of the centerline of Ogden Avenue; and
(c) On a lot which physically touches Ogden Avenue
Q. Sports or Recreation
Provision of sports or recreation uses by an entity that is not a unit of local government. Sports and recreation provided by a school, college, or university that is not a local unit of government is classified as an accessory use if located on the same lot as the principal use. Typical uses include driving ranges, go-cart or motorbike tracks, ice arenas, miniature golf courses, indoor shooting ranges, batting cages, gymnastic facilities, aquatic recreation facilities, sports complexes, private golf courses, and country clubs. This use subcategory is distinct from the Public Parks or Recreation use subcategory within the Public, Civic and Institutional use category. Sports or recreation specific use types are as follows:
1. Driving Range
An outdoor facility where golfers can practice. Driving ranges may include outdoor tees, chipping and putting practice greens. Driving ranges improved with buildings that provide covered hitting bays, event facilities, eating or drinking, or entertainment are classified as golf entertainment facilities.
2. Golf Entertainment Facility
A facility offering golf activities for practice or entertainment purposes. Golf entertainment facilities include one or more of the following: covered hitting bays, outdoor music, flood lighting, event facilities, or eating and drinking. (Ord. 2021-4931, 11-15-2021; amd. Ord. 2022-4972, 8-1-2022; Ord. 2023-5042, 12-18-2023)
5-7-8: INDUSTRIAL USE CATEGORY:
A. Artisan
On-site production of goods by hand manufacturing, involving the use of hand tools or small-scale, light mechanical equipment in a completely enclosed building with no outdoor operations or storage. Typical uses include woodworking and cabinet shops, ceramic studios, jewelry manufacturing or similar types of arts and crafts or very small-scale manufacturing uses that have no negative external impacts on surrounding properties. Artisan may include accessory workshops, classes, and other instructional services.
B. Data Center
A repository that houses computing facilities like servers, routers, switches or firewalls, as well as supporting components like backup equipment, fire suppression facilities or air conditioning.
C. Limited Industrial
Manufacturing or industrial uses that prepare, process, fabricate, assemble, treat or package finished parts or products without the use of explosive or petroleum materials. Uses in this subcategory do not involve the assembly of large equipment or machinery and have very limited external impacts in terms of noise, vibration, odor, hours of operation and truck or commercial vehicle traffic. Limited industrial specific use types are as follows:
1. Electronics Industries
Manufacturing or industrial uses that prepare, process, fabricate, assemble, treat or package electronics.
2. Brewing, Distilling, or Winemaking
The on-site production of liquor, beer, wine, or other alcoholic beverages.
3. Catering Services
Preparation of food or meals on the premises, and where such food or meals are delivered to another location for consumption. The preparation of packaged food for wholesale purposes shall be classified in the limited industrial use subcategory.
D. Recyclable Material Drop-Off Facility
An establishment that accepts consumer recyclable commodities directly from the consuming party or stores them temporarily before transferring them to recyclable material processing facilities. Recyclable commodities shall be limited to non-hazardous, nonspecial, homogeneous, nonputresable materials such as dry paper, glass, cans or plastic. The term “recyclable material drop-off facility” as used in this Zoning Ordinance shall not include general construction or demolition debris facilities, as defined in 415 ILCS 5/3.160, and/or transfer stations, as defined by 415 ILCS 5/3.500, facilities located within a structure principally devoted to another use, facilities temporarily located on a zoning lot under authority of a temporary use, and facilities for collecting used motor oil which are necessary to a motor vehicle service station. Establishments that process recyclable material are classified as “recyclable material processing facilities.”
E. Recyclable Material Processing Facility
Establishments that receives and processes consumer recyclable commodities for subsequent use in the secondary market.
F. Self-Storage Facility
The rental or leasing of indoor storage spaces for individuals to store personal effects. Self-storage facility uses are subject to the following supplemental use regulations:
1. A self-storage facility with drive-up spaces shall be enclosed by a fence or wall.
2. No door openings for a drive-up style self-storage unit shall face any R-zoned property or public street.
3. No business activity shall be conducted within a self-storage facility (other than the rental of storage spaces).
4. Servicing or repair of motor vehicles, boats, trailers, lawn mowers, or any similar equipment is prohibited.
5. The storage of flammable liquids, highly combustible or explosive materials, or hazardous chemicals is prohibited.
G. Wholesale, Distribution, and Warehousing
Uses that provide and distribute goods for retail sales, commercial services or industrial establishments. The long-term and short-term storage of supplies, equipment, commercial goods and personal items is included. Storage yards in which outdoor storage occurs on a parcel that is not improved with a principal building are prohibited. The wholesale, distribution & warehousing specific use types are as follows:
1. Freight Terminal Facility
A freight terminal facility is a connecting facility where shipments are transferred, trucks are switched, and where the primary activity is the receipt of, sorting of, routing of, and thereafter distribution of commercial goods for local, intrastate, or interstate distribution. The freight terminal facility includes uses engaged in the dispatching and long-term or short-term storage of trucks, buses and other vehicles, parcel delivery services, and cross-docking activities
2. Warehousing
The long-term and short-term storage of supplies, equipment, commercial goods, and personal items within an enclosed building. Uses that meet the definition of a self-service storage facility, freight terminal facility, or wholesale operations, shall not be classified as a warehousing specific use type.
3. Wholesale Operations
Uses engaged in the wholesale sales, bulk storage and distribution of goods principally to retail sales, commercial services, or industrial establishments. In the B-2 zoning district, classification as a wholesale operations specific use type requires that a retail showroom and on-site retail sales occur. (Ord. 2021-4931, 11-15-2021; amd. Ord. 2022-4972, 8-1-2022; Ord. 2023-5042, 12-18-2023)
5-7-9: OTHER USE CATEGORY:
A. Aircraft Landing Area
Areas used or made available for the landing or takeoff of aircraft, including areas classified as a restricted landing areas by the Illinois Department of Transportation Division of Aeronautics, and including any areas that are used or suitable for use for structures or facilities incidental to aircraft services.
B. Community Garden
An area managed and maintained by a group of individuals to grow and harvest food crops or nonfood crops (e.g., flowers) for personal or group consumption, for donation or for sale that is occasional and incidental to the growing and harvesting of food crops. A community garden area may be divided into separate garden plots or orchard areas for cultivation by one or more individuals or may be farmed collectively by members of the group. A community garden may include common areas (e.g., hand tool storage sheds) maintained and used by the group. Community gardens may be principal or accessory uses and may be located at grade (outdoors), on a roof or within a building. Community gardens do not include the raising or keeping of farm animals.
C. Medical Cannabis Dispensing
As defined in 410 ILCS 130/1 et seq.
D. Open Space
Undeveloped (containing no buildings or structures) land or water area. Open space may or may not be accessible to the public.
E. Parking Garage
A building, with or without a roof, which contains off street parking spaces.
F. Parking - Non Accessory
Privately owned parking that is not provided to comply with minimum off-street parking requirements and that is not provided exclusively to serve occupants of or visitors to a particular use, but rather is available to the public at large. A facility that provides both accessory parking and non-accessory parking is classified as non-accessory parking.
G. Parking - Public
Parking owned or operated by a local unit of government that is not provided to comply with minimum off-street parking requirements and that is not provided exclusively to serve occupants of or visitors to a particular use, but rather is available to the public at large.
H. Planned Unit Development
Planned unit developments must be reviewed and approved in accordance with the planned unit development procedures of Chapter 18 of this Ordinance.
I. Public Transportation Facility
Facilities intended to accommodate public transportation by rail or bus. Typical uses include train stations and bus stations. (Ord. 2021-4931, 11-15-2021)