In the residential-1 district, buildings, structures and land may be put to the following uses only:

(1)

Dwellings

(2)

Boardinghouses or lodginghouses

(3)

Churches

(4)

Hospitals or clinics for human beings

(5)

Private gardens, farming, nurseries, and greenhouses

(6)

Private or fraternal clubs or lodges, except those whose chief activity is primarily of a business nature

(7)

Public buildings, parks, and playgrounds

a.

Those pertaining to churches and their services;

b.

Those pertaining to the lease or sale of the premises on which they are located, and such signs are not to exceed an area of four square feet.

(Res. 3/19/79 (part): prior code § 12-102(part).) (Amend. 366, 5/5/08)

In the residential-2 district, buildings and land may be used for any purpose included in the use regulations of a residential-1 district, and may also be used for an approved mobile home park.

(a)

In the business district, buildings, structures, and land provided in this chapter may only be put to the uses permitted in the residential district and the following uses:

(1)

Apartments and business buildings

(2)

Bakeries

(3)

Barbershops, beauty shops, and shoe shining parlors

(4)

Battery stations, tire repair shops, and gasoline service stations

(5)

Blacksmith shops

(6)

Dairies

(7)

Funeral homes and undertaking parlors

(8)

Hay, grain, seed, feed and meal stores

(9)

Hotels

(10)

Ice plants, locker plants, and warehouses

(11)

Laboratories

(12)

Laundries, cleaning and dyeing establishments

(13)

Offices

(14)

Photograph and publishing establishments

(15)

Public garages

(16)

Printing and publishing establishments

(17)

Recreation establishments

(18)

Restaurants and taverns

(19)

Shops for electrical work, plumbing, steam fitting, tinsmiths, sharpening and grinding, locksmiths, painting, decorating, and upholstering

(20)

Stores, shops, showrooms, and salesrooms for the conduct of retail businesses

(21)

Tailor, millinery, and dressmaking shops

(22)

Telephone exchanges

(23)

Theaters

(24)

Cannabis business establishments, as such term is defined in Section 1-10 of the Cannabis Regulation and Tax Act (410 ILCS 705/1-1 et. seq.), provided that:

a.

No such cannabis business establishment shall located closer than one hundred feet from the property line of any school, day care, public park or church;

b.

A cannabis business establishment must be located (1) on Commercial Street, between 2nd Avenue West and 2nd Avenue East; or (2) on 1st Avenue, from Commercial Avenue to 4th Street.

(b)

Any building used primarily for any of the above enumerated uses may have not more than 40 percent of its floor area devoted to industrial purposes incidental to such primary use; provided, that not more than five employees shall be engaged at any one time on the premises in any such incidental use.

(Prior code § 12-103; Ord. No. 19-479 , § 2, 10-8-2019.)

In the industrial district, buildings and land may be used for any purpose whatsoever not in conflict with any ordinance of the Village of Lyndon regulating nuisances; provided, however, that no building or occupancy permit shall be issued for any industry which may be obnoxious or offensive by reasons of emission of odor, dust, smoke, gas, noise, or pollution of water.

(Prior code § 12-104.)

(a)

The lawful use of buildings, structures and land, existing at the time of the passage of the ordinance codified in this chapter although such use does not conform with the provisions hereof, may be continued, but if such nonconforming use is discontinued for a continuous period of over one year, any further use of the premises shall be in conformity with the provisions of this chapter. A nonconforming use may be extended throughout the building providing no structural alterations are made therein.

(b)

A nonconforming use of a building may be changed to another nonconforming use of the same or more restricted classification.

(c)

No building devoted to a nonconforming use which has been damaged by fire or other causes to the extent of 75 percent of its value shall be repaired or rebuilt except in conformity with this chapter.

(d)

Within the meaning of this section, the use of land shall be deemed to be existing for a nonconforming building in the event that only if construction work thereon shall have progressed beyond the excavation required for the building for its foundation at the time of the passage of the ordinance codified in this chapter; and where a building so under construction is clearly and obviously designed for a nonconforming use, such use shall be deemed as existing.

(Prior code § 12-105.)