The regulations set forth in this chapter or set forth elsewhere in this title when referred to in this chapter, are the district regulations in the E Service and Light Industrial Districts.

(Revised Zoning Ord., 8-15-1993)

As used in this chapter, the following words and terms shall have the meanings ascribed to them in this section:

   A.   Basement space if at least one-half (1/2) of the basement story height is above the established curb or ground level.

   B.   Elevator shafts and stairwells at each floor.

   C.   Floor space used for mechanical equipment where the structural headroom exceeds seven and one-half feet (7-1/2'); except equipment, open or enclosed, located on the roof, i.e., bulkheads, water tanks, and cooling towers.

   D.   Attic floor space where the structural headroom exceeds seven and one-half feet (7-1/2').

   E.   Interior balconies and mezzanines.

   F.   Enclosed porches, but not terraces and breezeways.

   G.   Accessory buildings.

(Revised Zoning Ord., 8-15-1993)

All permitted uses are subject to the following conditions.

   A.   Any production, processing, cleaning, servicing, repair, testing or storage of goods, materials or products shall conform with the performance standards set forth in this chapter.

   B.   All business, production, servicing and processing shall take place within completely enclosed buildings unless otherwise specified. Within one hundred fifty feet (150') of a residence district, all storage shall be in completely enclosed buildings or structures, and storage located elsewhere in this district may be open to the sky but shall be enclosed by solid walls or fences (including solid doors or gates thereto) at least eight feet (8') high, but in no case lower in height than the enclosed storage and suitably landscaped. However, open off street loading facilities and open off street parking of motor vehicles under one and one-half (1-1/2) tons’ capacity may be unenclosed throughout the district, except for such screening of parking and loading facilities as may be required under the provisions of the authorizing ordinance.

   C.   Uses established on the effective date hereof and by its provisions are rendered nonconforming shall be permitted to continue, subject to the regulations of this title.

   D.   Uses established after the effective date hereof shall conform fully to the performance standards set forth in this chapter for the district.

(Revised Zoning Ord., 8-15-1993)

The following uses are permitted:

Miscellaneous uses, as follows:

Accessory uses.

Off street parking and loading.

Radio and television towers.

Temporary buildings for construction purposes, for a period not to exceed the duration of such construction.

Production, processing, packaging, cleaning, testing, or repair, limited to the following uses and products:

Advertising displays.

Apparel and other products manufactured from textiles.

Art needle work and hand weaving.

Automobile painting, upholstering, repairing, reconditioning and body and fender repairing, when done within the confines of a structure.

Awnings, venetian blinds.

Bakeries.

Beverages, nonalcoholic.

Books, hand binding and tooling.

Bottling works.

Brushes and brooms.

Cameras and other photographic equipment and supplies.

Canning and preserving.

Canvas and canvas products.

Carpet and rug cleaning.

Chemicals, except the manufacture thereof.

Cleaning and dyeing establishments.

Cleaners.

Clothing.

Cosmetics and toiletries.

Creameries and dairies.

Dentures.

Drugs.

Electrical appliances, such as lighting fixtures, irons, fans, toasters, and electric toys.

Electrical equipment assembly, such as home radio and television receivers and home movie equipment, but not including electrical machinery.

Electrical supplies, manufacturing and assembly of, such as wire and cable assembly, switches, lamps, insulation and dry cell batteries.

Food products, processing and combining of (except meat and fish) - baking, boiling, canning, cooking, dehydrating, freezing, frying, grinding, mixing and pressing.

Fur goods, not including tanning and dyeing.

Glass products from previously manufactured glass.

Hair, felt and feather products (except washing, curling, and dyeing).

Hat bodies of fur and wool felt.

Hosiery.

Ice, dry and natural.

Ink mixing and packaging and inked ribbons.

Insecticides.

Jewelry.

Laboratories - medical, dental, research, experimental and testing, provided there is no danger from fire or explosion, nor offensive noise, vibration, smoke, dust, odors, heat, glare, or other objectionable influences.

Laundries.

Leather products, including shoes and machine belting.

Luggage.

Machine shops for tool, die, and pattern making.

Metal finishing, plating, grinding, sharpening, polishing, cleaning, rustproofing, and heat treatment.

Metal stamping and extrusion of small products such as costume jewelry, pins and needles, razor blades, bottle caps, buttons and kitchen utensils.

Musical instruments.

Orthopedic and medical appliances, such as artificial limbs, braces, supports and stretchers.

Paper products, small, such as envelopes and stationery, bags, boxes, tubes and wallpaper.

Perfumes and cosmetics.

Pharmaceutical products, compounding and packaging only.

Plastic products, but not including the processing of the raw materials.

Precision instruments, such as optical, medical, and drafting.

Printing and newspaper publishing, including engraving and photo-engraving.

Products from finished materials - plastic, bone, cork, feathers, felt, fibre, fur, glass, hair, horn, leather, paper, precious and semiprecious stones, rubber, shell or yarn.

Public utility electric substations and distribution centers, gas regulation centers and underground gas holder stations.

Repair of household or office machinery or equipment.

Rubber products, small, and synthetic treated fabrics, (excluding all rubber and synthetic processing) such as washers, gloves, footwear, bathing caps and atomizers.

Silverware, plate and sterling.

Soap and detergents, packaging only.

Soldering and welding.

Sporting and athletic equipment, such as balls, baskets, cues, gloves, bats, racquets, and rods.

Statuary, mannequins, figurines, and religious and church art goods, excluding foundry operations.

Storage of household goods.

Textiles - spinning, weaving, manufacturing, dyeing, printing, knit goods, yarn, thread and cordage, but not including textile bleaching.

Tobacco curing and manufacturing and tobacco products.

Tool and die shops.

Tools and hardware, such as bolts, nuts and screws, doorknobs, drills, hand tools and cutlery, hinges, house hardware, locks, nonferrous metal casting, and plumbing appliances.

Toys.

Umbrellas.

Vehicles, children's, such as bicycles, scooters, wagons, and baby carriages.

Watches.

Any other manufacturing establishment that can be operated in compliance with the performance standards without creating objectionable noise, odor, dust, smoke, gas, fumes or vapor; and that is a use compatible with the use and occupancy of adjoining properties.

Public and community service uses, as follows:

Bus terminals, bus garages, bus lots, street railway terminals, or streetcar houses.

Electric substations.

Fire stations.

Municipal or privately owned recreation buildings or community centers.

Parks and recreation areas.

Police stations.

Telephone exchanges.

Water filtration plants.

Water pumping stations.

Water reservoirs.

Residential uses, as follows:

Dwelling units for watchmen and their families when located on the premises where they are employed in such capacity.

Retail and services uses, as follows:

Animal pounds and shelters.

Automobile laundries.

Automobile service stations, where the retail sale of gasoline and oil for motor vehicles, including minor services customarily incidental thereto, may be conducted out of doors. Lubrication and washing facilities, including auto laundries, are permitted only if in a completely enclosed building.

Banks and financial institutions.

Battery and tire service stations.

Beverages, nonalcoholic - bottling and distributing.

Currency exchanges.

Drugstores.

Garages and parking lots, other than accessory.

Greenhouses.

Ice sales, linen, towel, diaper, and other similar supply services.

Offices, business or professional, or other types and kinds generally.

Restaurants, including the sale of liquor in conjunction therewith.

Taverns.

Trade schools.

Wholesaling and warehousing: cartage, hauling, distribution and express facilities (but not including motor freight terminals).

(Revised Zoning Ord., 8-15-1993)

The following uses may be allowed by special use permit by the Corporate Authorities after a public hearing thereon by the Zoning Board of Appeals:

Any use which may be allowed as a special use in the D Commercial District.

Any manufacturing or assembly of goods which uses “hazardous substances” or generates “hazardous wastes” as those terms are defined by the U.S. Environmental Protection Act or the Illinois Environmental Protection Act (415 ILCS 5/1 et seq.) or the regulations promulgated thereto.

Airport or aircraft landing fields.

Billboard-type advertising signs and other pole-type advertising signs which advertise activities, products or services that are not conducted on the premises on which the sign is located when such advertising signs are located within six hundred sixty feet (660') of the right-of-way for an “interstate highway” or a “primary highway”, as defined in the Illinois Highway Advertising Control Act of 1971 (225 ILCS 440/1 et seq.) if construction on such sign began on or after January 31, 2008. Any such advertising sign which was erected or on which construction began prior to February 1, 2008, shall be considered as a lawful conforming use for all purposes under this title.

Medical cannabis dispensaries established and operated in accordance with the requirements of the Compassionate Use of Medical Cannabis Pilot Program Act (410 ILCS 130/1 et seq.), as now or hereafter amended; provided, that no medical cannabis dispensary may be located within one thousand feet (1,000') of the property line of any public recreation facility with outdoor playing fields.

Motor freight terminals.

Planned developments, industrial.

Sanitary landfill.

Sewerage treatment plants.

Stadiums, auditoriums and arenas.

Theaters, outdoor drive-in.

(Revised Zoning Ord., 8-15-1993; amd. Ord. 2008-1-9M, 1-9-2008; Ord. 2014-6-11C, 6-11-2014)

No building or structure shall hereafter be erected or structurally altered unless the following yards are provided and maintained in connection with such building:

   A.   Front Yard: On every zoning lot, a front yard of not less than fifteen feet (15') in depth shall be provided. However, where lots within the same block and comprising forty percent (40%) of the frontage on the same street as already developed on the effective date hereof with front yards with an average depth of less than fifteen feet (15'), then such average depth shall be the required front yard depth for the frontage in the block.

   B.   Side Yards: On every zoning lot, a side yard of not less than five feet (5') shall be provided along each side lot line.

   C.   Maximum Floor Area Ratio: The maximum floor area ratio shall not exceed 1.0.

(Revised Zoning Ord., 8-15-1993)

Any use established hereinafter in any E Service and Light Industrial District shall be so operated as to comply with the performance standards set forth as follows:

   A.   Noise:

      1.   Sound levels shall be measured with a sound level meter and associated octave band filter manufactured according to standards prescribed by the American Standards Association.

      2.   Measurements shall be made using the flat network of the sound level meter. Impulsive type noises shall be subject to the performance standards hereinafter prescribed; provided, that such noises shall be capable of being accurately measured with such equipment. Noises capable of being so measured, for the purpose of this title, shall be those noises which cause rapid fluctuations of the needle of the sound level meter with a variation of no more than plus or minus two (±2) decibels. Noises incapable of being so measured, such as those of an irregular and intermittent nature, shall be controlled so as not to become a nuisance to adjacent uses.

      3.   At no point, either on the boundary of a residence district or a business district or at one hundred twenty five feet (125') from the nearest property line of a plant or operation, whichever distance is greater, shall the sound pressure level of an individual operation or plant (other than the operations of motor vehicles and other transportation facilities) exceed the decibel levels at the designated octave bands shown below for the districts indicated.

 

   B.   Smoke And Particulate Matter:

      1.   No stack shall emit more than ten (10) smoke units during any one hour, nor shall smoke of a density in excess of Ringelmann No. 2 be emitted; provided, that during a single one hour period in each twenty four (24) hour day, each stack may emit up to twenty (20) smoke units when blowing soot or cleaning fires, and during such cleaning of fires, smoke of a density of Ringelmann No. 3 may be emitted, but not for longer than four (4) minutes each period.

      2.   No emission of smoke or particulate matter shall exceed a density of Ringelmann No. 3, except for a plume consisting entirely of condensed steam. For the purposes of grading the density of emissions, the Ringelmann Chart, published and used by the United States Bureau of Mines, shall be employed.

      3.   The rate of emission of particulate matter from all sources within the boundaries of any lot shall not exceed a net figure of one pound per acre of lot area during any one hour.

      4.   Dust and other forms of air pollution borne by the wind from such sources as storage areas, yards, roads, and so forth, within lot boundaries shall be kept to a minimum by appropriate landscaping, paving, oiling or other acceptable means. The emission of particulate matter from such sources shall conform with the requirements of subsection B3 of this section.

      5.   In addition to the performance standards specified herein, the emission of smoke or particulate matter in such manner or quantity as to be detrimental to or endanger the public health, safety, comfort or welfare is hereby declared to be a public nuisance.

   C.   Odorous Matter: The emission of odorous matter from any property in such concentrations as to be readily detectable at any point along the boundaries of such property or in such concentrations as to create a public nuisance or hazard beyond such boundaries is prohibited.

   D.   Vibration: Any process or equipment which produces intense earth-shaking vibrations, such as are created by heavy drop forges or heavy hydraulic surges, shall be set back at least five hundred feet (500') from the property boundaries on all sides, except for a property line adjoining an F Industrial District, where such setback shall not be mandatory. However, in no case shall such vibrations be allowed to create a public nuisance or hazard beyond the property boundaries.

   E.   Toxic Or Noxious Matter: No use on any property shall discharge across the boundaries of the property toxic or noxious matter in such concentration as to be detrimental to or endanger the public health, safety, comfort, or welfare, or cause injury or damage to other property or business.

   F.   Glare Or Heat: Any operation producing intense glare or heat shall be performed within a completely enclosed building and effectively screened in such a manner as not to create a public nuisance or hazard along property boundaries.

   G.   Fire And Explosive Hazards: Fire and explosive hazards shall be controlled as follows:

      1.   Activities involving the storage or manufacture of materials or products which decompose by detonation are not permitted in the E District.

      2.   The storage, utilization or manufacture of materials ranging from incombustible to moderate burning, as determined by the Director of Building and Code Enforcement, is permitted.

      3.   The storage, utilization or manufacture of materials or products ranging from free or active burning to intense burning, as determined by the Director of Building and Code Enforcement, is permitted under the following conditions:

         a.   All storage, utilization or manufacture of such materials or products shall be within completely enclosed buildings or structures having incombustible exterior walls; and

         b.   All such buildings or structures shall be set back at least forty feet (40') from property boundaries or, in lieu thereof, shall be protected throughout by an automatic sprinkler system complying with standards for installation prescribed by the National Fire Protection Association.

      4.   Materials or products which produce flammable or explosive vapors or gases under ordinary weather temperatures shall not be permitted in this district, with the exception of the following, which are permitted:

         a.   Materials required for emergency or standby equipment;

         b.   Materials used in secondary processes which are auxiliary to a principal operation, such as paint spraying of finished products; and

         c.   Flammable liquids and oils stored, sold, and used in conjunction with the operation of an automobile service station and customarily required or used in such operation.

(Revised Zoning Ord., 8-15-1993)