Minooka City Zoning Code
CHAPTER 17
DATA CENTERS
5-17-1: PREAMBLE:
The regulations for data center districts are designed to provide for the establishment of a full range of technological activities and to govern their operations in a manner that will not have a deleterious effect on agricultural, residential and business areas. It is essential that there are adequate provisions for the expansion of data center facilities for attracting a diversification of new industry. Adequate data center sites and data center expansion will create growth and development of the village's economic and tax base and provide a variety of employment for its labor force. (Ord. 2024-50, 11-26-2024)
5-17-2: GENERAL PROVISIONS:
A. Use Regulations: All uses shall meet the data center design guidelines, which guidelines by this reference are incorporated herein, a copy of which is on file in the office of the village clerk.
B. Screening And Landscape Buffer: Screening and landscape buffer for the DC data center district shall comply with the data center design guidelines.
C. Performance Standards: Any use established in the DC data center district after the effective date hereof shall be so operated as to comply with the performance standards as governing the M1 manufacturing district in section 5-8-2
of this Code.
D. Noise: All uses in the data center district shall be in compliance with all applicable federal, state and local noise statutes and regulations and a noise study demonstrating such compliance shall be conducted prior to the issuance of a building permit. (Ord. 2024-50, 11-26-2024)
5-17-3: DATA CENTER DISTRICT:
A. Permitted Uses:
Agriculture
Business Services and Administrative Offices
Data Centers
Entrepreneurship Centers/Business Accelerator
Fire stations
Professional Offices
Public open space
Public utility, governmental service and similar uses as follows:
Bus transit facilities, including shelters, passenger stations parking areas, and service buildings.
Compressor stations, well head stations, well separators and other similar above-the-ground facilities customarily used for the distribution of natural gas as a part of the operations of a natural gas company or nonexempt operations of a public utility company.
Electric distribution centers and substations.
Gas regulator stations.
Public utility and governmental service establishments, other, including offices, storing, testing, repairing and servicing.
Water filtration plants, pumping stations and reservoirs; sewage treatment plants and lift stations, public or community.
Restaurants (excluding drive thru)
Accessory uses to the above permitted uses.
Public utility, governmental service and similar uses as follows:
Radio and television towers (no limit on height of towers).
Telephone exchanges, microwave relay towers and telephone transmission equipment and other such service buildings (no limit on height of towers).
C. Lot Coverage:
1. Floor area ratio: Not to exceed 0.5 for each level of building.
2. Impervious service ratio: Not to exceed 0.7.
D. Yards: Yards shall be provided in accordance with the following:
1. Front Yard: Not less than fifty feet (50') in depth.
2. Side Yards: a) Not less than fifty feet (50'); b) not less than two hundred (200') when adjoining a residence district or residential use; b) not less than twenty-five feet (25') wide when adjoining an interior lot line in the DC data center district.
3. Rear Yard: Not less than fifty feet (50') in depth.
a. When adjoining a railroad right of way, the rear yard may be measured from the centerline of the railroad right of way.
b. When adjoining a residence district or residential use, the rear yard shall be not less than two-hundred feet (200') in depth.
E. Building Height: No building in the DC data center district shall exceed sixty-five feet (65') in height.
F. Signs: The sign regulations for commercial district in section 5-13-16
of this code shall govern the DC data center district as well as any other applicable sign regulations as set forth in chapter 13
of this title.
G. Off Street Parking and Off-Street Loading: In accordance with regulations set forth in chapter 9
of this title.
H. One hundred percent (100%) of building facades in the DC data center district facing a public right-of-way and fifty percent (50%) of other facades shall be constructed of masonry, brick, stone, or decorative concrete block (excluding plain concrete block), architectural steel and glass, or precast panels. Aluminum or vinyl siding shall not be allowed as a primary building material. (Ord. 2024-50, 11-26-2024; amd. Ord. 2025-29, 9-23-2025)