1.

Any term not defined in this Chapter has the meaning of common or standard use.

2.

When it is consistent with the context, the following use of words applies for purposes of this Chapter:

a.

The present tense includes the future tense. All provisions that are stated to apply in the present are implied to apply in the future.

b.

The singular includes the plural. All provisions that are stated to apply to a single person, lot, or entity are implied to apply to multiple people, lots, and entities.

c.

The term "person" includes a legal entity as well as an individual.

d.

The term "lot" includes the word "plot," "parcel," and "tract."

e.

The term "shall" is always mandatory.

f.

The terms "used" and "occupied," as applied to any land or building, include the terms "intended, arranged, or designed to be used or occupied."

g.

The masculine gender includes the feminine.

h.

The words "village" and "municipality" refer to the Village of Rantoul.

i.

The acronym "PZC" means the Village of Rantoul Planning and Zoning Commission.

j.

The words "Administrator," "Zoning Administrator," and "Zoning Officer" refer to the official appointed by the Village President to administer this Chapter.

k.

The term "Village Board" means the President and Board of Trustees of the village.

(Ord. No. 2542, § 1, 9-12-2017)

1.

All distances must be measured to the nearest integral foot.

2.

The body text of the Chapter governs over any diagram, title, subtitle or heading.

(Ord. No. 2542, § 1, 9-12-2017)

The following words, terms and phrases, when used in the Chapter, have the meanings ascribed to them in this section, except where the context clearly indicates a different meaning:

Accent: An area covering no more than 25 percent of a building's surface area visible to the public.

Accessory building: A building on the same lot with the principal structure or use and subordinate to and used for purposes customarily incidental to the principal structure or use.

Accessory structure: A structure on the same lot with the principal structure or use that is subordinate to and used for purposes customarily incidental to the principal structure or use.

Accessory use: A use on the same lot that is customarily incidental and subordinate to the principal use or structure.

Adult use: A business that sells or disseminates explicit sexual material, and at which access to the public display of explicit sexual material is restricted to persons 18 years of age or older. An adult bookstore, adult cabaret, or adult motion picture theater are considered adult uses and are defined as follows:

1.

Adult retail: A business which offers for sale or rent 15 percent or more of materials consisting of any of the following: publications, books, magazines, periodicals, photographs, films, motion pictures, video cassettes, DVDs, or other video reproductions, or other visual representations that depict or describe specified sexual activities or specified anatomical areas, or instruments, devices, or paraphernalia that are designed for use in connection with specified sexual activities.

2.

Adult arcade: A business where, for any form of consideration, one or more still or motion picture projectors, slide projectors or similar machines are used to show files, motion pictures, video cassettes, DVDs, slides, computer generated graphics, or other photographic reproductions which are characterized by an emphasis upon the depiction or description of specified sexual activities or specified anatomical areas.

3.

Adult cabaret: A business that features dancers, go-go dancers, exotic dancers or similar entertainers, or live entertainment, in which persons regularly appear in a state of nudity, or where live performances are characterized by the exposure of specified anatomical areas or by specified sexual activities. Adult cabaret establishments specifically exclude minors, or minors are specifically prohibited by statute or ordinance, regardless of whether any such business is licensed to sell alcoholic beverages.

4.

Adult motion picture theater: A business used for presenting motion pictures that are distinguished or characterized by an emphasis on matter depicting, describing, or relating to specified sexual activities or specified anatomical areas for observation by patrons.

5.

Adult hotel/motel: A hotel or motel or similar business establishment that rents, leases, or lets any room for less than a six-hour period, or rents, leases, or lets any single room more than twice in a 24-hour period.

The following definitions describe the sexually oriented activities contained within the general definitions for the above adult uses:

1.

Sexually oriented devices: Any artificial or simulated specified anatomical area or other device or paraphernalia that is designed in whole or part for specified sexual activities.

2.

Sexual anatomical area: Less than completely and opaquely covered genitals, pubic region, buttock, and female breast below a point immediately above the top of the areola, or human male genitals in a discernable turgid state, even if completely and opaquely covered.

3.

Specified sexual activities: Any activity that includes human genitals in a state of sexual stimulation or arousal; acts of human masturbation, sexual intercourse, or sodomy; or fondling or erotic touching of human genitals, pubic regions, buttocks, or female breasts, even if completely and opaquely covered.

Automobile repair, major: Services including the general repair, rebuilding, or reconditioning of engines, motor vehicles, and trailers; collision services such as body, frame, and fender repair; vehicle painting; and providing service to trucks with a capacity greater than 1.5 tons.

Automobile repair, minor: Services including the maintenance, repair, and replacement of parts of passenger cars and trucks not exceeding a capacity of 1.5 tons, and excluding any activities defined by this Chapter as major automobile repair.

Automobile salvage yard: A lot, land, building, or structure, or part of a lot, land, building, or structure, used primarily for the collection, storage, and/or sale of scrap metal, machinery, appliances, or vehicles and vehicle parts not in operable condition.

Basement: The part of any building that is wholly or partly below ground level.

Billboard: Any structure or portion of a structure whose primary purpose is the outdoor display of signs or advertisements, not including temporary signs advertising the sale or lease of the premises on which they are located.

Block: A tract of land that is bounded by streets, public parks, railroad rights-of-way, and/or the village corporate boundary.

Boardinghouse: A building where meals, lodging, or both are regularly provided, by prearrangement and for compensation, to five or more persons. Boardinghouses are not open to transient guests.

Bright or brilliant color: Highly saturated chroma as defined in the Munsell System of Color Notation.

Building: Any structure that:

1.

Is permanently affixed to the land;

2.

Is intended for the support, enclosure, or shelter of persons, animals, or property;

3.

Is bounded by either open area or the lot lines of a zoning lot; and

4.

Has one or more floors and a roof.

Building area: The total area of all buildings above ground level on a lot, with each building measured at the greatest outside dimensions, including covered porches and breezeways and excluding uncovered porches, patios, terraces, steps, awnings, marquees, and nonpermanent canopies or planters.

Building, attached: A building that has two or more party walls in common with another building.

Building, detached: A building that has no party wall.

Building height: A building's vertical measurements from the mean level of the ground abutting the building to a point midway between the highest and lowest points of the roof. Building height does not include chimneys, spires, towers, elevator penthouses, tanks, flagpoles, aerials, stacks, beacons, and similar projections of the building.

Building line: A line usually parallel to the front, side, or rear lot line, set to provide the required yards around a building or structure.

Building, semi-detached: A building that has only one party wall in common with another building.

Café: A food service establishment with a maximum seating capacity of 50 people, where food consumption takes place on the premises. A café must not include drive-in or drive-through facilities or curb service.

Certificate of occupancy: A certificate issued by the zoning administrator in accordance with the provisions of this Chapter, authorizing the occupancy of a building or the use of a building, structure, or lot, and/or certifying the nonconforming status of a building, structure, or lot.

Club: A building and/or facilities owned and operated on a not-for-profit basis by a corporation or association of persons for social or recreational purposes.

Community residence: A single dwelling unit occupied on a relatively permanent basis by a group of persons with disabilities in a family-like environment, plus paid professional support staff present at the residence on a 24-hour basis. Paid professional support staff may also live in the residence.

Community residence, family: A community residence occupied by no more than eight persons with disabilities, plus paid support staff.

Community residence, group: A community residence occupied by nine to 15 persons with disabilities, plus paid support staff.

Crop production: The growing, harvesting, and storing of crops, including legumes, hay, grain, fruit, truck or vegetable crops, floriculture, horticulture, mushroom growing, orchards, and forestry; accessory farm dwellings; and accessory farm buildings used for growing, harvesting, or preparing crop products for market or for use on the farm.

Day care, adult: Any facility or portion thereof operated for the purpose of providing care, protection, supervision, training, or other programs to adult individuals during part of a 24-hour day. This term excludes public and private educational facilities and any facility offering care to individuals for a full 24-hour period.

Day care facility: Any facility operated for the purpose of providing care, protection, and/or guidance to 10 or more individuals during part of a 24-hour day. This term includes nursery schools, preschools, day care centers, and other similar uses, but excludes public and private educational facilities and any facility offering care to individuals for a full 24-hour period. A day care facility is not permitted as a home occupation.

Day care home: Any facility operated for the purpose of providing care, protection, and/or guidance to a maximum of nine individuals at any one time during part of a 24-hour day. This term includes nursery schools, preschools, day care centers, and other similar uses, but excludes public and private educational facilities and any facility offering care to individuals for a full 24-hour period. A day care home is permitted as a home occupation.

Dwelling, duplex: A building containing two dwelling units.

Dwelling, multi-family: A building containing three or more dwelling units

Dwelling, single-family: A building containing one dwelling unit.

Dwelling unit: A building or portion thereof designed for occupancy by one family for residential purposes, having a kitchen, bathroom and its own independent access from the exterior of the building or from a common interior hallway.

Façade: A face or elevation of a building.

Family: A household that consists of:

1.

Two or more persons related by blood, marriage, or adoption, living together as a single housekeeping unit;

2.

Two or more unrelated persons living together as a single housekeeping unit; or

3.

One person living alone as a single housekeeping unit.

Farm dwelling: A dwelling located on a farm and occupied by persons primarily engaged in crop production or agricultural operations.

Frontage: The portion of a lot abutting a public street.

Gross floor area: The total area of all floor levels of a building or structure, measured to the outer face of the exterior wall, or in the absence of an exterior wall, to the furthest extension of the edge of the floor surface. The gross floor area includes public egress/ingress, balconies, stairs and stairwells, but excludes:

1.

Areas used for parking facilities within the principal building or structure.

2.

Areas used as private balconies.

3.

Areas used for basements in single-family dwellings.

4.

Areas used for and solely dedicated to the housing of mechanical systems.

5.

Areas used as unfinished attics.

Gross floor area ratio: The gross floor area of the building, buildings, structure, or structures on a zoning lot divided by the area of such zoning lot.

Halfway house: A temporary residential living arrangement for persons who are receiving therapy and counseling from paid professional support staff present at all times that residents are present, in operation for any of the following purposes:

1.

To help residents recuperate from the effects of drug or alcohol addiction.

2.

To help residents re-enter society while in supervised housing and under the constraints of alternatives to imprisonment including, but not limited to, pre-release, work release, and probationary programs.

3.

To help residents with family or school adjustment problems that require specialized attention and care in order to achieve personal independence.

4.

To provide temporary shelter to persons who are victims of domestic abuse.

Home occupation: Any occupation for gain or support carried on as an accessory use in a dwelling unit or an accessory structure to that dwelling unit, by a resident of that dwelling unit and in accordance with the provisions of this Chapter.

Hospice: A temporary residential living arrangement for persons with a disease that requires full-time support, therapy and/or treatment.

Hotel: A building in which lodging or lodging and meals are regularly provided or offered to the public for compensation and that is customarily open to transient guests.

Industrial - General: The manufacturing of products from processed or unprocessed raw materials, including processing, fabrication, assembly, treatment, packaging, storage, sales, and/or distributions of such products. This manufacturing may produce noise, vibrations, illumination, or particulate that is perceptible to adjacent land users but is not offensive or obnoxious. General industrial uses may also include ancillary outdoor storage areas.

Industrial - Heavy: The manufacturing or compounding of raw materials, which may include the storage of large volumes of highly flammable, toxic, or explosive matter. This manufacturing may involve outdoor operations as part of their manufacturing process. Heavy manufacturing processes have greater than average impacts on the environment, and may have significant impacts on the use and enjoyment of adjacent property in terms of noise, smoke, fumes, odors, glare, or health and safety hazards.

Industrial - Light: The manufacturing of finished products or parts from previously prepared materials, including processing, fabrication, assembly, treatment, and packaging of such products, and storage, sales, and distribution of such products, provided that all industrial activities and any noise, odor, smoke, heat, glare, or vibration resulting from the industrial activities are contained entirely within a building. A light industrial use may also include a showroom, ancillary sales of products related to the items manufactured or stored on-site, and/or ancillary outdoor storage.

Industrial planned unit development: A planned unit development designed to accommodate a community of compatible and permitted industry. Industrial planned unit developments may be promoted or sponsored by private developers, community organizations, or government organizations.

Institutional use: Any public, quasi-public, or nonprofit use including, but not limited to, a library, park, public or private school, hospital, or any other structure or land used exclusively for any such public, quasi-public, or nonprofit purpose.

Junkyard or automobile salvage yard: A lot, land, building, or structure, or part thereof, used primarily for the collection, storage, or sale of scrap metal, or for the collection, dismantling, storage, and salvage of machinery, appliances, or vehicles not in running condition and for the sale of parts therefrom.

Kennel: An establishment that harbors dogs or cats, regardless of age, for the purpose of breeding, training, racing, boarding, or sale for compensation, or that houses more than five fully grown animals for compensation, or in which more than five fully-grown household animals are offered for sale.

Lot: A designated parcel tract, or an area of land established by plat, subdivision, or as otherwise permitted by law, to be used, developed, or built upon as a unit.

Lot area: The total area within the lot lines.

Lot, corner: A lot at the intersection of and with frontage on two streets.

Lot, interior: A lot with only one street frontage.

Lot line: The property line bounding a lot, between any lot and any contiguous lot or right-of-way.

Lot line, front: The property line dividing a lot from the adjacent street or right-of-way.

Lot line, rear: The property line opposite the front lot line.

Lot line, side: Any property line other than a front or rear lot line. A side lot line separating one lot from another lot or lots is an interior side lot line.

Lot of record:

1.

A parcel of land whose deed has been recorded with the county recorder's office.

2.

A lot that is part of a subdivision and whose plat has been recorded with the county recorder's office.

Lot, through: A lot with frontage on two parallel or approximately parallel streets.

Lot width: The distance between side lot lines at the front building line, parallel to the front right-of-way.

Lot, zoning: A single tract of land located within a single block that is designated by the owner or developer at the time of application for a building permit as a tract to be used, developed, or built upon as a unit under single ownership or control. A zoning lot may or may not coincide with a lot of record.

Manufacturing, artisanal: The fabrication, assembly, and packaging of products produced in small batches, using handmade or minimally automated methods and generating no or minimal nuisances.

Medical cannabis cultivation center: A facility operated by an organization or business that is licensed by the Illinois Department of Agriculture to perform necessary activities to provide usable medical cannabis to only medical cannabis dispensaries licensed by the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation.

Medical cannabis dispensary: A facility operated by an organization or business that is licensed by the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation to acquire medical cannabis from only medical cannabis cultivation centers licensed by the Illinois Department of Agriculture, for the purpose of dispensing cannabis, paraphernalia, or related supplies and educational materials to qualifying patients.

Micro-brewery: A facility for the production and packaging of malt beverages of low alcoholic content in quantities not to exceed 15,000 barrels per year, which may include a tasting room that allows customers to taste samples of products manufactured on-site and purchase related sales items.

Micro-distillery: A facility for the production and packaging of alcoholic beverages in quantities not to exceed 12,000 gallons per year, which may include a tasting room that allows customers to taste samples of products manufactured on-site and purchase related sales items.

Micro-winery: A facility for the production and packaging of any alcoholic beverages obtained by the fermentation of the natural contents of fruits or vegetables, containing sugar, including such beverages when fortified by the addition of alcohol or spirits, in quantities not to exceed 25,000 gallons per year, which may include a tasting room that allows customers to taste samples of products manufactured on-site and purchase related sales items.

Mobile home: A structure that is built on a permanent chassis and designed to be used as a dwelling unit, with or without a permanent foundation, when connected to the required utilities. A mobile or manufactured home includes plumbing, heating, air conditioning, and electrical systems, and is transportable in one or more sections. While in traveling mode, it may be eight feet or more in width and 40 feet or more in length, and, when erected on-site, is 320 square feet or more. This definition excludes: motor vehicles, boat trailers, single or dual axle utility trailers, specified construction trailers, campers, trailers and recreational vehicles.

Mobile home park: A contiguous parcel of land planned and improved for the placement of five or more mobile homes.

Motel: A building in which lodging or lodging and meals are regularly provided or offered to the public for compensation and that is customarily open to transient guests. A motel is distinguished from a hotel primarily by reason of providing direct independent access to and adjoining parking for each lodging unit.

Nonconforming: A lawful building, use, or lot whose design, size, or use does not conform with the requirements of the zoning district or districts in which it is located.

Nonconforming building or structure: A building or structure that was lawfully existing at the time this Chapter became effective, but that does not conform to the development regulations set forth in this Chapter for the district in which it is located or otherwise does not conform to other relevant village regulations pertaining to its use. This term also includes any building or structure that is rendered nonconforming by any annexation or other subsequent amendment to this Chapter.

Nonconforming lot: A lot that lawfully existed on the effective date of the adoption or amendment of this Chapter that does not conform to the regulations and standards set forth in this Chapter of the district in which it is located. This term also includes any lot that is rendered nonconforming by any annexation or other subsequent amendment to this Chapter.

Nursing home: A building that houses, and in which services are provided for, ill and aged persons.

Open space: The portion of the ground level area of a lot that is unobstructed from the ground level upwards and that meets the following criteria:

1.

At least 50 percent of the area is comprised of lawns, live plantings, or other permeable groundcover;

2.

No more than 50 percent of the area is covered by paving for sidewalks or for leisure and recreational areas such as patios, tennis courts, and swimming pools; and

3.

No part of the area is used for parking, drives, or loading areas.

Open storage: An area used for the accumulation of stock or supplies to be drawn upon as needed for later use, not including the storage of automobiles for automobile sales businesses or farm equipment for implement sales businesses.

Owner, Ownership: An individual, firm, association, syndicate, partnership, corporation, company, organization, trust, or any other legal entity having a proprietary interest in a use, structure, premises, lot, or tract of land.

Parking area: An open, hard-surfaced area of land, not including streets and public rights-of-way, that is designed, arranged, and made available for the storage of passenger automobiles and commercial vehicles.

Parking area, private: A parking area that is an accessory use for a residential building, and that is reserved for the parking of passenger automobiles and commercial vehicles of occupants and personal guests of the residential building.

Parking area, public: A parking area for the storage of passenger automobiles and commercial vehicles with under a two-ton capacity, available to the public for compensation, for free, or as an accommodation for clients and customers.

Parking space: A space for parking a vehicle, either indoors or outdoors, provided with but not including a driveway or other means of access.

Party wall: A wall used or adapted for joint service between two adjacent buildings.

Permitted use: A use, building, or structure allowed by right in a particular zoning district or specifically authorized by a valid special use permit.

Place of worship: A building, including any customary accessory buildings or uses, where people regularly assemble for religious worship and that is maintained and controlled by a religious body organized for the purposes of public worship.

Planned unit development: An area designed and developed according to the standards of Article 10 of this Chapter, for which a single site plan has been prepared that establishes at least, but not limited to, the following: land uses; open space allocations; site circulation for pedestrians, bicycles, and automobiles; parking; setbacks; housing densities; building separation distances; land coverage; landscaping; building heights; accessory uses; and architectural treatment.

Plat: A map, plan, or layout showing the subdivision of land and indicating the location and boundaries of individual lots.

Porch: A ground level or first-story above-grade, unenclosed platform, supported from the ground and extending out from the main part of a building. Porches may be roofed, and may have railings not exceeding 42 inches in height.

Premises: A lot or tract of land, including any structures, buildings, or other improvements located on that lot.

Public utility or public service facility:

1.

Substations for electric, oil, or gas service, metering and regulating;

2.

Public transit facilities;

3.

Railroad facilities;

4.

Telephone exchanges or other communications equipment or facilities;

5.

Water or sanitary sewer pumping stations;

6.

Any other public utility facility.

Recreational vehicle: Boats and boats trailers, travel trailers, pickup campers or coaches designed to be mounted on automobiles, motorized dwellings, tent trailers, or other motorized or non-motorized vehicle used primarily for recreational purposes and not used commercially. Mobile homes are not considered recreational vehicles.

Recycling business: A business that is:

1.

Primarily engaged in converting ferrous or nonferrous metals or other materials into raw material products having prepared grades and an existing or potential economic value; or

2.

Using raw materials products of that kind in the production of new products; or

3.

Obtaining or storing ferrous or nonferrous metals or other materials for a purpose described by paragraphs 1. or 2. above.

Right-of-way: The entire dedicated tract or strip of land that is legally used by the public for circulation or service.

Roof, blue: A roof designed to store water and discharge rainfall.

Roof, green: A roof that is partially or completely covered with vegetation and a growing medium, planted over a waterproofing membrane. It may also include additional layers such as a root barrier and drainage and irrigations systems.

Roof, white: A roof designed to deliver high solar reflectance, reducing heat transfer to the building and the ability to radiate absorbed or non-reflected solar energy.

Roominghouse: A building where accommodations are provided, by prearrangement and for compensation, in one room or a series of closely associated rooms. Accommodations include common cooking facilities. Maximum occupancy capacity is 15 people.

School: A building or group of buildings, and all associated structures, facilities, and grounds, in and on which instruction is given.

School, business or trade: A private school or college that is conducted as a commercial enterprise and not owned, conducted, or sponsored by a religious or charitable organization. Instruction at trade or business schools may include, but is not limited to, cosmetology, dance, industrial skills, IT skills, and instrumental music.

Shopping center, convenience: A shopping center located on a site of between one-half acre and four acres in area, with between 12,000 and 50,000 square feet of combined building area, that is designed and developed according to the commercial planned unit development procedures and standards specified in Article 10 of this Chapter.

Shopping center, general: A shopping center located on a site of more than four acres, with a combined building area of more than 50,000 square feet, that is designed and developed according to the commercial planned unit development procedures and standards specified in Article 10 of this Chapter.

Sign: Any words, lettering, figures, numerals, emblems, devices, trademarks, or trade names, or any combination thereof, which provides information and is designed to attract attention or convey a message.

Solid waste facility: All continuous land and structures, other appurtenances, and improvements on the land, used for processing, storing, or disposing of solid waste, or used for the purpose of processing, extracting, converting, or recovering energy or materials from solid waste. A facility may consist of several processing, storage, or disposal operational units (e.g., one or more landfills, surface impoundments, or combinations thereof).

Solid waste transfer station: A facility where solid waste materials are taken from smaller collection vehicles (e.g., compactor trucks) and placed in larger transportation vehicles (e.g., over-the-road tractors utilizing trailers that are top-loaded) for movement to designated disposal areas.

Special use: A use that is potentially appropriate in and compatible with other uses in its district, but, due to the scale or nature of the use, has the potential to adversely impact adjacent uses, structures, or public services and facilities. A special use may be permitted based on the discretionary review of the Village Board pursuant to and in compliance with procedures specified in Article 17 of this Chapter.

Story: The portion of a building between the upper surface of any floor and the upper surface of the floor above, and any portion of a building used for human occupancy between the topmost floor and the roof. A basement is not counted as a story unless the height of the surface of the first floor above the average elevation of the finished lot grade at the front of the building is greater than four feet.

Street, private: A service way providing access to a property that is for the use of a limited number of persons or purposes and that has not been publicly dedicated.

Street, public:

1.

A right-of-way established by or maintained under public authority;

2.

A private street open for public uses; or

3.

A private street plotted or laid out for ultimate public use, whether or not already constructed.

A street may be designated as an avenue, boulevard, drive, highway, lane, parkway, place, road, thoroughfare, or as another appropriate name.

Structure: Any building or other constructed feature that requires attachment to the ground, including but not limited to advertising signs, billboards, poster panels, and supports and frames of such structures.

Structure, principal: The structure in or on which the principal use is conducted on the lot on which it is located.

Townhouse: A single-family dwelling unit that is part of a townhouse building.

Townhouse building: A building containing a row of three or more single-family dwelling units, where each unit is separated from the adjoining units by party walls without openings and where each unit has independent access to the exterior of the building on the ground story.

Truck terminal: Premises used for the loading and/or unloading of trucks that can accommodate the simultaneous loading and/or unloading of five or more trucks. The storage of cargo on truck terminal premises must be incidental to the primary function of motor freight shipment.

Use: The specific purpose for which land, a structure, or a building is designed, arranged, or intended, or for which it is or may be occupied or maintained.

Variance: Permission or approval granted in accordance with Article 17 of this Chapter, constituting a modification of or deviation from the exact provisions of this Chapter as applied to a specific property.

Warehouse: A building used for the storage of raw materials, goods, or equipment, including vehicles, but not used for manufacturing, assembly, construction, repair, sales, or other activity except the packaging of goods and materials for shipment.

Warehouse, Mini-: A storage enterprise dealing with the reception of residential or commercial goods. Separate storage units are rented to individual customers who are entitled to exclusive and independent access to their respective units.

Yard: An open space that is on the same lot as a structure, lying between the structure and the nearest lot line, and that is unoccupied and unobstructed from the surface of the ground upward, except as specifically provided in this Chapter.

Yard, front: The minimum required open space, extending the full width of the lot from the right-of-way line to the nearest point of the nearest building or structure.

Yard, rear: The minimum required open space, extending the full width of the lot from the rear lot line to the nearest point of the nearest building.

Yard, required: The minimum required open space of any yard whose dimensions are set by this Chapter. Yard dimension requirements apply to all lots, whether or not a building or buildings exist on the lot.

Yard, side: The minimum required open space, extending the full depth of the lot from the side lot line to the nearest point of the main building.

Zoning administrator: The person designated by the village president for the purpose of administering provisions of this Chapter.

(Ord. No. 2542, § 1, 9-12-2017)