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Schiller Park City Zoning Code

ARTICLE XVI

C-2 COMMUNITY SHOPPING DISTRICT

§ 155.1601 PURPOSE.

   The C-2 Community Shopping District is designed to accommodate the needs of a much larger consumer population than is served by the neighborhood convenience district, thus a wider range of uses is permitted for both daily and occasional shopping.
(Ord. 05-2539, passed 10-11-05)

§ 155.1602 CONDITIONS.

    Uses allowed in the C-2 Community Shopping District are subject to the following conditions:
   (A)   All business establishments shall be retail or service establishments dealing directly with consumers. Except as otherwise noted in this Section, all business, servicing or processing shall be conducted within completely enclosed buildings and all goods sold, whether produced on the premises or elsewhere, shall be sold at retail only, and, if produced on the premises, shall be sold on the premises where produced and not elsewhere.
   (B)   All business, serving or processing, except for outdoor patio seating at restaurants and off-street parking or loading that is accessory to a zoning lot’s principal use, shall be conducted within completely enclosed buildings.
   (C)   Establishments of the "drive-in" type offering goods or services directly to customers waiting in parked motor vehicles are allowed only by conditional use permit.
   (D)   The unenclosed parking of trucks as an accessory use, when used in the conduct of a permitted business listed hereafter in this Section shall be limited to vehicles of not over one and one-half tons in capacity when located within 75 feet of a residence district boundary line. Any parking of trucks on land adjacent to residential property shall be screened therefrom by a wall, fence or densely planted compact hedge not less than five nor more than eight feet in height.
   (E)   Screening of objectionable views. 
      (1)   Reasonable visual privacy shall be provided for exposed storage areas, machinery installations, and trash or garbage containers as to prevent their being incongruous with the existing environment and neighboring public or private property. Complete concealment using methods including but not limited to, fencing, barriers and/or landscaping installed in accordance with the provisions of this chapter will be required for the protection and the privacy of the enclosure’s contents as well as the aesthetic enhancement of property.
      (2)   Lighting installed upon a building. structure, sign, or within any other fixture shall be shielded so as to prohibit light trespass upon a neighboring property or the public thoroughfare. It shall be unlawful to maintain light levels greater than one foot-candle at any time of day as measured at the curb line.
(Ord. 05-2539, passed 10-11-05; Am. Ord. 18-4089, passed 9-6-18; Am. Ord. 19-4191, passed 12-5-19; Am. Ord. 21-4251, passed 1-21-21)

§ 155.1603 PERMITTED USES.

   (A)   Any use permitted in the C-1 Neighborhood Convenience District is permitted in the C-2 Community Shopping District; and
   (B)   In addition , the following uses are permitted in the C-2 Community Shopping District:
      (1)   Antique shops;
      (2)   Art, sculptor and composer studios in which specified sexual activities are not permitted or depicted;
      (3)    Educational services for profit:
         (a)   Schools: Music, yoga and/or dance studio;
         (b)   Schools: Commercial or business, but not trade schools or vocational schools;
      (4)   Automobile accessory stores. (Retail sales only. No servicing of vehicles or installation of products);
      (5)   Bakeries;
      (6)   Banks and financial institutions;
      (7)   Banquet halls;
      (8)   Bicycle sales, rental and repair shops;
      (9)   Blueprinting and photostating establishments;
      (10)   Business machine and computer sales and service;
      (11)   Camera and photographic supply stores;
      (12)   Carpet, flooring and rug stores;
      (13)   China and glassware stores;
      (14)   Clothing and costume rental stores;
      (15)   Coin and philatelic stores;
      (16)   Custom dressmaking;
      (17)   Dairy products;
      (18)   Day-care centers;
      (19)   Department stores;
      (20)   Dry cleaning establishments;
      (21)   Dry goods stores;
      (22)   Electronics, electrical and household appliance stores, including radio and television sales, service and repair;
      (23)   Employment agencies;
      (24)   Florist shops;
      (25)   Food catering establishments;
      (26)   Frozen food stores, including locker rental in conjunction therewith;
      (27)   Furniture stores, including upholstering when conducted as part of the retail operations and secondary to the principal use;
      (28)   Furrier shops, including the incidental storage and conditioning of furs;
      (29)   Garden supply, tool and seed stores;
      (30)   Gift shops;
      (31)   Hearing aid sales and/or repair stores;
      (32)   Hobby shops, for retail of items to be assembled or used away from the premises;
      (33)   Household appliances;
      (34)   Interior decorating shops, including upholstering and making of draperies, slip covers and other similar articles, when conducted as part of the retail operations and secondary to the principal use;
      (35)   Jewelry stores, including watch repair;
      (36)   Leather goods and luggage stores;
      (37)   Liquor stores, packaged goods;
      (38)   Locksmith shops;
      (39)   Medical and health centers for profit;
      (40)   Meeting halls other than private clubs;
      (41)   Millinery shops;
      (42)   Musical instrument sales and repair;
      (43)   Office machine sales and servicing;
      (44)   Offices, business and professional;
      (45)   Office supply stores;
      (46)   Optician sales, retail;
      (47)   Orthopedic and medical appliance stores;
      (48)   Paint, glass and wallpaper stores;
      (49)   Pet shops;
      (50)   Phonograph record, LVD, DVD, CD, audio tape, video tape, and sheet music stores, other than adult mini motion picture theaters and adult motion picture theaters;
      (51)   Photography studios which do not permit specified anatomical areas of subjects to be photographed on file or video tape, including the development of film and pictures when conducted as part of the permitted retail business on the premises;
      (52)   Picture framing when conducted for retail trade on the premises only;
      (53)   Radio and television stations and studios;
      (54)   Restaurants, including the service of alcoholic beverages, entertainment and dancing – but excluding adult entertainment cabarets;
      (55)   Secondhand stores and rummage shops, excluding sales of jewelry and electronics;
      (56)   Sewing machine sales and service, household appliances only;
      (57)   Shoe stores;
      (58)   Signs as authorized and regulated by Chapter 154 of the New Millennium Code of the Village of Schiller Park, as amended, and as may be further amended from time to time hereafter;
      (59)   Sporting goods stores;
      (60)   Stationary stores;
      (61)   Tailor shops;
      (62)   Taverns and cocktail lounges – but excluding adult entertainment cabarets;
      (63)   Telegraph offices;
      (64)   Theater, indoor, other than adult mini motion picture theaters and adult motion picture theaters;
      (65)   Ticket agencies, amusement;
      (66)   Toy shops;
      (67)   Travel bureaus and transportation ticket offices;
      (68)   Repair, rental and servicing of any article, the sale of which is a permitted use in the district;
      (69)   Other retail sales and service uses similar in character to the above; and
      (70)   Accessory uses incidental to and on the same zoning lot as a principal use allowable in this C-2 Community Shopping District, including but not limited to off-street parking and loading facilities as permitted or required in accordance with the provisions of Article XII of this chapter.
(Ord. 05-2539, passed 10-11-05; Am. Ord. 18- 4071, passed 6-21-18; Am. Ord. 19-4176, passed 9-5-19; Am. Ord. 19-4191, passed 12-5-19; Am. Ord. 21-4251, passed 1-21-21)

§ 155.1604 CONDITIONAL USES.

   (A)   Any use allowed as a conditional use in the C-1 Neighborhood Convenience District may be allowed as a conditional use in the C-2 Community Shopping District; and
   (B)   In addition, the following uses may be allowed as conditional uses in the C-2 Community Shopping District:
      (1)   Coin operated amusement establishments, bowling alleys, pool halls, dance halls, swimming pools, skating rinks, arcade;
      (2)   Automobile service stations;
      (3)   Book stores, other than adult book stores;
      (4)   Hotels and motels;
      (5)   Parking garages or structures, enclosed and other than accessory for the storage of private passenger automobiles only;
      (6)   Medical and dental clinics and laboratories;
      (7)   Motor vehicle sales (in an enclosed building or buildings), provided that a majority of such vehicles for sale shall be new vehicles;
      (8)   Drive-in establishments;
      (9)   Undertaking establishments and funeral parlors;
      (10)   Veterinary clinics; and
      (11)   Wholesale establishments.
(Ord. 05-2539, passed 10-11-05; Am. Ord. 17-3087, passed 1-5-17; Am. Ord. 18-4071, passed 6-21-18; Am. Ord. 18-4089, passed 9-6-18; Am. Ord. 19-4132, passed 3-21-19; Am. Ord. 19-1476, passed 9-5-19)

§ 155.1605 LOT SIZE REQUIREMENTS.

    In the C-2 Community Shopping District, there shall be a minimum lot area of 3,000 square feet and a minimum lot width of 25 feet.
(Ord. 05-2539, passed 10-11-05; Am. Ord. 18-4089, passed 9-6-18)

§ 155.1606 YARD REQUIREMENTS.

   (A)   Rear Yard. Each use allowed in the C-2 Community Shopping District shall provide a rear yard of not less than 20 feet in depth.
   (B)   Side Yard. Ten feet when adjacent to a residential district.
   (C)   Front Yard. Each use allowed in the C-2 Community Shopping District shall provide a front yard of not less than 25 feet in depth.
(Ord. 05-2539, passed 10-11-05)

§ 155.1607 FLOOR AREA RATIO.

   In the C-2 Community Shopping District, floor area ration shall not exceed 3.0. [Ord. No. 83-1516, § 2, 8-15-83]
(Ord. 05-2539, passed 10-11-05)