Palos Hills City Zoning Code
Complete index of all zoning chapters, sections, and subsections
CHAPTER 17
04 - DEFINITIONS
Sections
- 17.04.005 - Generally.
- 17.04.010 - Abandonment.
- 17.04.015 - Accessory building or use.
- 17.04.020 - Acreage.
- 17.04.025 - Airport.
- 17.04.030 - Alley.
- 17.04.035 - Alteration, structural.
- 17.04.040 - Animal hospital.
- 17.04.045 - Apartment.
- 17.04.050 - Apartment hotel.
- 17.04.055 - Apartment house.
- 17.04.060 - Auditorium.
- 17.04.065 - Automobile laundry.
- 17.04.070 - Automobile repair, major.
- 17.04.075 - Automobile repair, minor.
- 17.04.080 - Automobile service station.
- 17.04.085 - Automobile and trailer sale area.
- 17.04.090 - Automobile wrecking yard.
- 17.04.095 - Awning.
- 17.04.100 - Banks and financial institutions.
- 17.04.105 - Basement.
- 17.04.110 - Billboard.
- 17.04.115 - Block.
- 17.04.120 - Boardinghouse.
- 17.04.125 - Borrow pit.
- 17.04.130 - Buildable area.
- 17.04.135 - Building.
- 17.04.140 - Building, completely enclosed.
- 17.04.145 - Building, detached.
- 17.04.150 - Building height.
- 17.04.155 - Building line.
- 17.04.160 - Building, nonconforming.
- 17.04.165 - Building, principal.
- 17.04.170 - Building setback line.
- 17.04.175 - Building, temporary.
- 17.04.180 - Bulk.
- 17.04.185 - Business and professional office.
- 17.04.190 - Bus lots.
- 17.04.195 - Carport.
- 17.04.200 - Cellar.
- 17.04.205 - Clinic, medical or dental.
- 17.04.210 - Club or lodge, private.
- 17.04.215 - Common open space.
- 17.04.220 - Court, outer.
- 17.04.225 - Curb level.
- 17.04.230 - Decibel.
- 17.04.235 - District.
- 17.04.240 - Dwelling.
- 17.04.245 - Dwelling, attached.
- 17.04.250 - Dwelling, detached.
- 17.04.255 - Dwelling group.
- 17.04.260 - Dwelling, multiple-family.
- 17.04.265 - Dwelling, one-family.
- 17.04.270 - Dwelling, row (party wall).
- 17.04.275 - Dwelling, two-family.
- 17.04.280 - Dwelling unit.
- 17.04.285 - Educational institution.
- 17.04.290 - Efficiency unit.
- 17.04.295 - Family.
- 17.04.300 - Floor area, gross (for the purpose of determining floor area ratio).
- 17.04.305 - Floor area, gross (for the purpose of determining requirements for off-street parking and off-street loading).
- 17.04.310 - Floor area ratio (F.A.R. ).
- 17.04.315 - Frequency.
- 17.04.320 - Frontage.
- 17.04.325 - Garage, bus.
- 17.04.330 - Garage, bus or truck.
- 17.04.335 - Garage, private.
- 17.04.340 - Garage, public.
- 17.04.345 - Golf course.
- 17.04.350 - Grade, street.
- 17.04.355 - Guesthouse.
- 17.04.360 - Home occupation.
- 17.04.365 - Horse.
- 17.04.370 - Hospital or sanitarium.
- 17.04.375 - Hotel, apartment.
- 17.04.380 - Hotel, motel, inn or auto court.
- 17.04.385 - Junkyard.
- 17.04.390 - Kennel, commercial.
- 17.04.395 - Laboratory, commercial.
- 17.04.400 - Loading and unloading space or berth, off-street.
- 17.04.405 - Lodging or roominghouse.
- 17.04.410 - Lot.
- 17.04.415 - Lot area.
- 17.04.416 - Lot, buildable.
- 17.04.420 - Lot, corner.
- 17.04.425 - Lot coverage.
- 17.04.430 - Lot depth.
- 17.04.435 - Lot frontage.
- 17.04.440 - Lot, interior.
- 17.04.445 - Lot line.
- 17.04.450 - Lot line, front.
- 17.04.455 - Lot line, interior.
- 17.04.460 - Lot line, rear.
- 17.04.465 - Lot line, side.
- 17.04.470 - Lot of record.
- 17.04.475 - Lot, reversed, corner.
- 17.04.480 - Lot, through.
- 17.04.485 - Lot width.
- 17.04.490 - Manufacture.
- 17.04.495 - Marquee or canopy.
- 17.04.500 - Mobile home.
- 17.04.505 - Mobile home camp or park.
- 17.04.510 - Motel.
- 17.04.515 - Motor freight terminal.
- 17.04.520 - Nameplate.
- 17.04.525 - Net site area.
- 17.04.530 - Nonconforming use.
- 17.04.535 - Noxious matter.
- 17.04.540 - Nursery, child care.
- 17.04.545 - Nursing home or rest home.
- 17.04.550 - Occupancy certificate.
- 17.04.555 - Octave band.
- 17.04.560 - Octave band filter.
- 17.04.565 - Open sales lot.
- 17.04.570 - Ordinance.
- 17.04.575 - Paddock.
- 17.04.580 - Parking area, private.
- 17.04.585 - Parking area, public.
- 17.04.590 - Parking space, automobile.
- 17.04.595 - Particulate matter.
- 17.04.600 - Performance standard.
- 17.04.605 - Plan commission.
- 17.04.610 - Planned unit development.
- 17.04.615 - Porch.
CHAPTER 17
32 - GENERAL USE REGULATIONS
Sections
- 17.32.010 - Conformance required.
- 17.32.020 - Bulk.
- 17.32.030 - Access required.
- 17.32.040 - Number of buildings on lot.
- 17.32.050 - Zoning of public areas.
- 17.32.060 - Performance standards.
- 17.32.070 - Existing special uses.
- 17.32.080 - Uses not specifically permitted.
- 17.32.090 - Certain uses prohibited in residential zoning districts.
CHAPTER 17
34 - LOTS
Sections
- 17.34.010 - Maintenance of open space.
- 17.34.020 - Division of lots.
- 17.34.030 - Location of open space.
- 17.34.040 - Maintenance of required yards.
- 17.34.050 - Permitted obstructions in yards.
- 17.34.055 - Commercial lots—Vehicle access restricted.
- 17.34.060 - Exceptions for existing developments.
- 17.34.070 - Combination of contiguous lots.
- 17.34.080 - Existing lots of record.
CHAPTER 17
40 - NONCONFORMING USES
Sections
- 17.40.010 - Continuation.
- 17.40.020 - Discontinuance.
- 17.40.030 - Change of use.
- 17.40.040 - Termination and removal.
- 17.40.050 - Repairs and alterations.
- 17.40.060 - Repair of damage.
- 17.40.070 - Additions and enlargements.
- 17.40.080 - Changes in use district boundaries.
- 17.40.090 - Exemptions.
- 17.40.100 - Special use.
CHAPTER 17
42 - SIGNS
Sections
- Article I. - Purpose and Title
- 17.42.010 - Purpose.
- 17.42.015 - Short title.
- 17.42.020 - Administrator.
- 17.42.025 - Advertising message.
- 17.42.030 - Architectural projection.
- 17.42.040 - Awning.
- 17.42.045 - Canopy, marquee or carport.
- 17.42.050 - City.
- 17.42.055 - Copy, permanent and temporary.
- 17.42.060 - Erected.
- 17.42.065 - Ground level.
- 17.42.070 - Height of sign.
- 17.42.075 - Maintain.
- 17.42.080 - Message.
- 17.42.085 - Owner.
- 17.42.090 - Parapet or parapet wall.
- 17.42.095 - Person.
- 17.42.100 - Premises.
- 17.42.105 - Roof line.
- 17.42.110 - Sign.
- 17.42.115 - Sign area.
- 17.42.120 - Sign, abandoned.
- 17.42.125 - Sign, banner.
- 17.42.130 - Sign, billboard.
- 17.42.135 - Sign, building.
- 17.42.140 - Sign, canopy, carport or marquee.
- 17.42.145 - Sign, changing, automatic.
- 17.42.150 - Sign, construction.
- 17.42.155 - Sign, directional or instructional.
- 17.42.160 - Sign, electric.
- 17.42.165 - Sign, exempt.
- 17.42.170 - Sign, facia or wall.
- 17.42.175 - Sign, flashing.
- 17.42.180 - Sign, ground.
- 17.42.185 - Sign, holiday or seasonal.
- 17.42.190 - Sign, identification.
- 17.42.195 - Sign, illuminated.
- 17.42.200 - Sign, individual letter.
- 17.42.205 - Sign, insignia or symbols.
- 17.42.210 - Sign, interior.
- 17.42.215 - Sign, legal, nonconforming.
- 17.42.220 - Sign, legend.
- 17.42.225 - Sign, memorial.
- 17.42.230 - Sign, nameplate.
- 17.42.235 - Sign, neighborhood identification.
- 17.42.240 - Sign, notice and bulletin board.
- 17.42.245 - Sign, off premises/off-site.
- 17.42.250 - Sign, on premises/on-site.
- 17.42.255 - Sign, pole.
- 17.42.260 - Sign, political.
- 17.42.265 - Sign, portable.
- 17.42.270 - Sign, projecting.
- 17.42.275 - Sign, public.
- 17.42.280 - Sign, real estate.
- 17.42.285 - Sign, roof.
- 17.42.290 - Sign, special events.
- 17.42.295 - Sign, sticker.
- 17.42.300 - Sign structure.
- 17.42.305 - Sign, temporary.
- 17.42.310 - Sign, unlawful.
- 17.42.315 - Sign, window.
- 17.42.320 - Sign, window identification.
- 17.42.325 - Sign, window promotional.
- 17.42.330 - Street.
- 17.42.335 - Use.
- Article II.- Insurance and Issuance of Permits
- Article III.- Inspection
- Article IV.- Signs Permitted in Zoning Districts
- Article V. - Prohibited Signs
- 17.42.410 - Miscellaneous signs and posters.
- 17.42.415 - Parking of advertising vehicles prohibited.
- 17.42.420 - Public area.
- 17.42.430 - Flags.
- 17.42.440 - Swinging Signs.
- 17.42.450 - "A"-frame signs.
- 17.42.460 - Residential areas.
- 17.42.470 - Flashing signs.
- 17.42.480 - Unclassified signs.
- 17.42.490 - Ad bench signs.
- 17.42.500 - Gas stations.
- 17.42.510 - Searchlights.
- 17.42.520 - Height.
- 17.42.530 - Roof signs.
- 17.42.540 - Billboards.
- 17.42.550 - Off premises/off-site signs.
- Article VI.- Construction Specifications
- Article VII.- Exempt Signs
- 17.42.570 - Permit exceptions.
- 17.42.580 - Construction signs.
- 17.42.590 - Direction or instructional signs.
- 17.42.600 - Flags.
- 17.42.610 - Public signs.
- 17.42.620 - Holiday or seasonal signs or decorations.
- 17.42.630 - House numbers and nameplates.
- 17.42.640 - Interior signs.
- 17.42.650 - Memorial signs.
- 17.42.660 - Notice bulletin boards.
- 17.42.670 - No-trespassing or no-dumping signs.
- 17.42.680 - Identification signs.
- 17.42.690 - Building signs.
- 17.42.700 - Public signs and notices.
- 17.42.705 - Political signs.
- 17.42.710 - Real estate signs.
- 17.42.720 - Insignia or symbols.
- 17.42.730 - Warning signs.
- 17.42.740 - Neighborhood identification signs.
- Article VIII.- Removal and Disposition of Signs
- Article IX.- Legal Nonconforming Signs
- Article X. - Special Signs
- Article XI.- Special Exceptions or Variances
- Article XII.- Administration
- Article XIII.- Penalties for Violation
CHAPTER 17
43 - SATELLITE SIGNAL-RECEIVING ANTENNAS
Sections
- 17.43.010 - Definitions.
- 17.43.020 - Permit—Required.
- 17.43.030 - Permit—Application.
- 17.43.040 - Satellite earth stations—Location.
- 17.43.050 - Satellite earth stations—Inspection and installation.
- 17.43.060 - Satellite earth stations—Construction and support structures.
- 17.43.070 - Satellite earth stations—Prohibitions.
- 17.43.080 - Installations made prior to passage of provisions.
- 17.43.090 - Exceptions.
- 17.43.100 - Appeals.
- 17.43.110 - Violation—Penalty.
CHAPTER 17
56 - PLANNED UNIT DEVELOPMENT
Sections
- 17.56.010 - Purpose.
- 17.56.020 - Requirements.
- 17.56.030 - Procedure.
- 17.56.040 - Formal petition contents.
- 17.56.050 - Bond.
- 17.56.060 - Streets.
- 17.56.070 - Standards.
- 17.56.080 - Conditions and guarantees.
- 17.56.090 - Denial.
- 17.56.100 - Termination.
- 17.56.110 - Modifications, changes and amendments to planned unit developments.