Principal uses are allowed in accordance with Table 5-1.

   A.   Use Classification System: Uses are listed in the first column of Table 5-1. This zoning ordinance classifies uses into categories and subcategories, which are defined in Chapter 5. In some cases, specific use types and building types are listed in addition to the use categories and subcategories. Building types are also defined in Chapter 5.

   B.   Permitted Uses: Uses identified with a "P" are permitted as-of-right in the subject zoning district, subject to compliance with any supplemental regulations referenced in the final column of Table 5-1 and with all other applicable regulations of this zoning ordinance.

   C.   Uses Permitted on Upper Floors: Uses identified with a "U" are permitted as-of-right in the subject zoning district but only when located above the ground floor. Such uses are subject to compliance with any supplemental regulations referenced in the final column of Table 5-1 and with all other applicable regulations of this zoning ordinance.

   D.   Special Uses: Uses identified with an "S" may be allowed if reviewed and approved in accordance with the special use permit procedures of Section 10-12-4. Special uses are subject to compliance with any supplemental regulations referenced in the final column of Table 5-1 and with all other applicable regulations of this zoning ordinance.

   E.   Prohibited Uses: Uses identified with an "-" are expressly prohibited. Uses that are not listed in the table and that cannot be reasonably interpreted (as stated in Section10-5-2D) to fall within any defined use category are also prohibited.

   F.   Supplemental Regulations: The "supplemental regulations" column of Table 5-1 references additional regulations that apply to some uses. Unless otherwise expressly stated, compliance with these regulations is required regardless of whether the use is permitted as-of-right or requires special use permit approval.

   G.   Accessory Uses: Accessory uses, such as home occupations, are not regulated by Table 5-1. Customary accessory uses are allowed in conjunction with principal uses permitted by right or by special use permit, subject to compliance with all applicable accessory use regulations of Chapter 6.

 

 

 

(Ord. 2025-1446, 10-9-2025)

This section establishes and describes the use categorization system used to classify principal uses in this zoning ordinance.

   A.   Use Categories: This zoning ordinance classifies principal land uses into 8 major groupings (described in Sections 10-5-3 through 10-5-8). These major groupings are referred to as "use categories." The use categories are as follows:

      1.   Residential. See Section 10-5-3.

      2.   Public, Civic and Institutional. See Section 10-5-4.

      3.   Commercial. See Section 10-5-5.

      4.   Storage & Distribution. See Section 10-5-6.

      5.   Manufacturing. See Section 10-5-7.

      6.   Other. See Section 10-5-8.

   B.   Use Subcategories: Each use category is further divided into more specific "subcategories." Use subcategories classify principal land uses and activities based on common functional, product or physical characteristics, such as the type and amount of activity, the type of customers or residents, and how goods or services are sold or delivered and site conditions.

   C.   Specific Use Types: Some use subcategories are further broken down to identify specific types of uses that are regulated differently than the use subcategory generally.

   D.   Determination of Use Categories and Subcategories:

      1.   The zoning official is authorized to classify proposed uses into the most similar and appropriate use category and subcategory descriptions of this chapter after considering:

         a.   The types of activities that will occur in conjunction with the use;

         b.   The types of equipment and processes to be used;

         c.   The existence, number and frequency of residents, customers, or employees;

         d.   Parking demands associated with the use; and

         e.   Other factors deemed relevant to a similar use determination.

      2.   Proposed uses that cannot be reasonably assigned to a similar and appropriate use category or subcategory are deemed prohibited, unless approved by special use permit. (Ord. 2025-1446, 10-9-2025)

This category includes uses that provide living accommodations for one or more persons. The residential use subcategories are as follows.

   A.   Household Living: Residential occupancy of a dwelling unit by a single household. When dwelling units are rented, tenancy is arranged for a minimum of four (4) months. Uses where tenancy may be arranged for a shorter period are not considered residential; they are considered a form of lodging. Household living uses must occupy an allowed residential building type, as identified in Table 2-2.

   B.   Group Living: Residential occupancy of a building or any portion of a building by a group other than a household. Group living uses typically provide communal kitchen/dining facilities. Examples of group living uses include group homes, convents, monasteries, nursing homes, and memory care assisted living facilities.

      1.   Convent or Monastery: A community of individuals bound by vows to a religious life under.

         a.   Supplemental Use Regulations: A convent or monastery occupied by more than eight (8) individuals requires special use permit approval.

      2.   Group Home: A detached house shared by persons with disabilities who live together as a single housekeeping unit in a long-term, household-like environment in which staff persons provide care, education, and participation in community activities for the residents with a primary goal of enabling the resident to live as independently as possible. Group homes do not include pre-release, work-release, probationary, or other programs that serve as an alternative to incarceration.

         a.   Small Group Home: A group home for eight (8) or fewer individuals, plus supervisory or oversight personnel.

         b.   Large Group Home: A group home for more than eight (8) individuals, plus supervisory or oversight personnel.

         c.   Supplemental Use Regulations: Group homes are subject to the following supplemental use regulations:

         (1)   Group homes must be licensed or certified by the state;

         (2)   Group homes must be separated by a distance of at least two thousand five hundred feet (2,500') from any another group home (measured in straight line from lot line to lot line) unless this minimum distance requirement is waived through the special use permit process of Section 10-12-4; and

         (3)   Group homes must have the same general exterior appearance as other detached houses on the same blockface.

      3.   Sheltered Care: A "long-term care facility," as defined in 210 ILCS 45/1-113, that provides maintenance and personal care but not skilled nursing care. Also known as "assisted living facilities."

         a.   Supplemental Use Regulations: Sheltered care facilities are subject to the following supplemental use regulations:

         (1)   Minimum lot area: three and a half (3.5) acres;

         (2)   Maximum building coverage: twenty percent (20%) of subject lot; and

         (3)   Water and sewer service: Village of South Barrington. (Ord. 2025-1446, 10-9-2025)

This category includes public, quasi-public and private uses that provide unique services that serve and provide benefits to the public at-large. The public, civic and institutional subcategories are as follows.

   A.   Community Assembly: Uses that provide gathering places for secular or non-secular assembly or entertainment events. Community assembly uses may provide incidental food or beverage service.

      1.   Non-secular Assembly and Entertainment: Non-secular assembly and entertainment uses are those that are primarily centered on religious or spiritual matters, such as customarily occur in churches, synagogues, temples, mosques, and other facilities used for religious worship.

      2.   Secular Assembly and Entertainment: Secular assembly and entertainment uses are those that are not primarily centered on religious or spiritual matters. Typical uses include fraternal organizations, private (member-based) clubs, and community centers.

      3.   Supplemental Use Regulations: Community assembly uses in any residential zoning district require a minimum lot area of ten (10) acres and may not exceed thirty percent (30%) total building coverage. In all other zoning districts, the minimum lot area is two (2) acres, and the maximum building coverage is forty percent (40%).

   B.   Hospital: Uses providing medical or surgical care to patients requiring on-site stay of overnight or longer.

   C.   Library or Cultural Exhibit: Museum-like preservation and exhibition of objects in one or more of the arts and sciences, gallery exhibition of works of art or library collections of books, manuscripts and similar materials for study and reading. Includes aquariums and planetariums.

   D.   Natural Resource Preservation: Undeveloped land left in a natural state for specific use as visual open space or environmental purposes. Typical uses include nature preserves, arboretums, wetlands, flood management projects and reservoirs.

   E.   Parks and Recreation: Recreational, social, or multi-purpose uses associated with public parks and open spaces, including playgrounds, playfields, play courts, and other facilities typically associated with public parks and open space areas. Also includes public and private golf courses and tennis clubs.

   F.   Safety Service: Establishments that provide fire, police, or life protection, together with the incidental storage and maintenance of necessary vehicles. Typical uses include fire stations, police stations, ambulance services and storm or civil defense shelters.

   G.   School: Public and private schools at the primary, elementary, middle school or high school level that provide basic, compulsory education.

   H.   Utilities and Public Service Facility:

      1.   Minor: Infrastructure services that need to be located in or close to the area where the service is provided. Minor utilities and public service facilities generally do not have regular employees at the site and typically have few if any impacts on surrounding areas. Typical uses include water and sewer pump stations; gas regulating stations; underground electric distribution substations; electric transformers; water conveyance systems; stormwater facilities and conveyance systems; telephone switching equipment and emergency communication warning/broadcast facilities.

      2.   Major: Infrastructure services that typically have substantial visual or operational impacts on nearby areas. Typical uses include but are not limited to water and wastewater treatment facilities, high-voltage electric substations, utility-scale power generation facilities (including wind, solar and other renewable and nonrenewable energy sources), and utility-scale water storage facilities, such as water towers and reservoirs. (Ord. 2025-1446, 10-9-2025)

The commercial use category includes uses that provide a business service or involve the selling, leasing, or renting of merchandise to the general public. The commercial use subcategories are as follows.

   A.   Animal Service: Uses that provide goods and services for care of animals, including the following specific use types:

      1.   Boarding or Shelter: Animal shelters, care services and kennel services for dogs, cats, and small animals, including boarding kennels, pet resorts/hotels, pet adoption centers, dog training centers, animal rescue shelters and zoos and animal sanctuaries. Also includes animal hospitals and clinics with outdoor boarding or outdoor kennel facilities.

      2.   Veterinary: Animal hospitals and veterinary clinics with no outdoor boarding or outdoor kennel facilities. All animal hospitals and clinics with outdoor boarding or outdoor kennel facilities are classified as boarding or shelter uses.

   B.   Commercial Service: Uses that provide for consumer or business services and for the repair and maintenance of a wide variety of products. Examples of commercial service uses include the following:

      1.   Building Service: Uses that provide maintenance and repair services for all structural and mechanical elements of structures, as well as the exterior spaces of premises. Typical uses include janitorial, landscape maintenance, carpet cleaning, chimney sweeps, extermination, plumbing, electrical, HVAC, roofing, window cleaning and similar services.

      2.   Business Support Service: Uses that provide personnel services, printing, copying, package (delivery) drop-off, photographic services or communication services to businesses or consumers. Typical uses include employment agencies, copy and print shops, delivery/courier service drop-off location for consumers, and photo developing labs.

      3.   Consumer Maintenance and Repair Service: Uses that provide maintenance, cleaning, and repair services for consumer goods on a site other than that of the customer (i.e., customers bring goods to the site of the repair/maintenance business). Typical uses include laundry and dry-cleaning pick-up shops, tailors, dressmakers, shoe repair, picture framing shops, locksmiths, vacuum repair shops, electronics repair shops and similar establishments. Business that offer repair and maintenance service for large equipment or technicians who visit customers' homes or places of business are classified as a "building service."

      4.   Personal Improvement Service: Uses that provide personal grooming, cosmetic or health and well-being-related services. Typical uses include barbers, hair, and nail salons, tanning salons, day spas, and health clubs. Tattoo and body piercing establishments, as defined in 410 ILCS 54/1, are classified as personal improvement service uses but are expressly prohibited in the village regardless of zoning designation:

      5.   Research Service: Uses engaged in scientific research and testing services leading to the development of new products and processes. Such uses resemble office buildings or campuses and do not involve the mass production, distribution, or sale of products. Research service uses do not produce odors, dust, noise, vibration, or other external impacts that are detectable beyond the property lines of the subject property.

   C.   Day Care: Uses providing care, protection and supervision for children on a regular basis away from their primary residence for less than twenty-four (24) hours per day. Examples include state-licensed childcare centers, preschools, nursery schools, head start programs, and after-school programs. Day care expressly includes state-accredited facilities for childcare, as defined in the Illinois Child Care Act.

   D.   Eating and Drinking Places:

      1.   Bar or Tavern: Uses that cater primarily to adults, twenty-one (21) years of age and older and that sell and serve intoxicating beverages and/or beer as their principal business. Typical bar uses include bars, taverns, and brewpubs.

      2.   Restaurant: An establishment that serves food for on- or off-premises consumption as its principal business. Typical examples of restaurant uses include restaurants, cafés, cafeterias, ice cream/yogurt shops, donut shops and coffee shops. A restaurant may include a bar area for service of alcohol if the restaurant employs at least one full-time cook, has a menu and fully equipped kitchen for cooking and preparation of meals.

   E.   Entertainment and Events, Spectator: Provision of cultural, entertainment, athletic, and other events to spectators other than those expressly described under the community assembly use category of Section 10-5-4A. Typical uses include entertainment and sports venues, live theaters, and cinemas. Off-track wagering locations (as defined in 230 ILCS 5/1) are included in the spectator entertainment and events use subcategory but are expressly prohibited in the village regardless of zoning designation.

   F.   Financial Service: Uses related to the exchange, lending, borrowing and safe keeping of money. Automatic teller machines, kiosks and similar facilities that do not have on-site employees or amplified sound are not classified as financial service uses if they meet the criteria for classification as an accessory use (see Section 10-6-1B).Typical examples of financial service use types are banks and credit unions. The following types of are also classified as financial service uses but are expressly prohibited in the village regardless of zoning designation:

      1.   Pawnshops and pawn brokers (as defined in 205 ILCS 510);

      2.   Establishments that provide (vehicle) title-secured loans or payday loans (as defined in 815 ILCS 122) and similar services; and

      3.   Establishments primarily engaged in buying gold or other precious metals (e.g., cash-for-gold businesses).

   G.   Fitness or Instructional Service: Uses in an enclosed building that focus on providing individual or group instruction or training in fine arts, music, dance, drama, fitness, language, or similar activities. Also includes dance studios, ballet academies, yoga studios, martial arts instruction, tutoring, artist studios and photography studios.

   H.   Funeral and Mortuary Service: Uses that provide services related to the death of a human or domestic, household pet, including funeral homes and mortuaries.

   I.   Lodging: Uses that provide temporary lodging by transient guests or occupants. Lodging uses sometimes provide food or entertainment, primarily to registered guests. Examples of specific lodging use types include:

      1.   Hotel/Motel: An establishment, other than a short-term rental, in which temporary lodging is offered for compensation. A hotel/motel may include an accessory use bar.

      2.   Short-Term Rental: The use or occupancy of all or part of a principal building for a period of less than four (4) months pursuant to a written or oral agreement that permits and/or provides for occupancy of all or part of such building by any person other than the owner thereof, or an immediate family member of the owner thereof, and whether or not such occupancy is in exchange for consideration.

         a.   Supplemental Use Regulations: Short-term rentals are subject to the following supplemental use regulations:

         (1)   These supplemental use regulations are intended to protect and preserve the quiet enjoyment of residential properties and neighborhoods within the village and to mitigate and/or eliminate adverse secondary effects the village and its residents have experienced by reason of short-term rentals of certain residential structures in the village, including gatherings that have been characterized by excessive noise, overcrowded parking, and suspected illegal activity.

         (2)   Except as otherwise expressly provided in this zoning ordinance, leasing, renting, offering or inviting the leasing or renting, or otherwise permitting the short-term rental or occupancy of any dwelling or accessory structure located within the village for less than four (4) consecutive months at a time is prohibited, with the exception of a hotel or similar establishment duly licensed by the village. Such conduct is prohibited, whether engaged in or participated in by the owner of the property, one or more agents of the property owners, or by any persons leasing, or seeking to lease as a lessors, or renting or seeking to rent as lessees or otherwise occupy a premises as tenant or temporary occupant thereof.

         (3)   The term of any lease or occupancy agreement that satisfies the minimum term required by these regulations may be extended on a month-to-month basis on the condition that the tenants remain the same.

         (4)   Dwellings may not be leased or otherwise occupied by other than the same tenant, more than two (2) times during any consecutive twelve (12)-month period unless the subject rental agreement has been terminated by reason of a tenant default.

         (5)   The restrictions of this section apply whether the rental premises comprise all or a part of the principal building.

         (6)   Whether or not consideration is exchanged for the lease or rental of a premises, does not affect the fact that the occupancy of the premises is treated as a short-term rental for the purposes of this zoning ordinance.

         (7)   The property owner remains responsible for compliance with all applicable provisions of this zoning ordinance and all other applicable village regulations during the term of any rental or occupancy agreement and during the term of any occupancy of the rental premises by persons other than the property owner.

         (8)   Temporary structures may not be used for a short-term rental.

         (9)   The prohibition on short-term rentals do not apply when the immediately preceding owner of a property maintains possession of the dwelling unit after closing on a real estate transaction for the sale thereof and leases such property back from the successor owner pursuant to a written agreement.

         (10)   Notwithstanding anything otherwise provided to the contrary in this zoning ordinance or the village code, any persons found guilty of violating any short-term rental provisions of this section are subject to a mandatory fine of not less than one thousand dollars ($1,000.00) per day, nor more than five thousand dollars ($5,000.00) per day. Each day a principal structure or any accessory structure is offered for rent as a short-term rental, is leased or rented as a short-term rental and each day a principal structure or any accessory structure is occupied as a short-term rental constitutes a separate violation under this section. Without any limitation on the foregoing, each day a violation of this section occurs or continues is a separate offense, and each such offense is subject to not less than the minimum mandatory daily fine.

         (11)   A license must be obtained from the village before establishing a short-term rental or engaging in short-term rental of property. Required short-term rental licenses must be renewed annually.

   J.   Office: Uses in an enclosed building, customarily performed in an office, that focus on providing executive, management, administrative, professional or medical services. Examples of specific office use types include:

      1.   Business and Professional Office: Offices of companies and organizations. Examples include corporate office, law offices, architectural firms, insurance companies and other executive, management or administrative offices for businesses and organizations.

      2.   Medical, Dental and Health Practitioner Office: Office uses related to diagnosis and treatment of human patients' illnesses, injuries and physical maladies that are scheduled in advance and can be performed in an office setting with no overnight care. Typical uses include offices of physicians, dentists, psychiatrists, psychologists, and chiropractors. Surgical and medical centers that do not involve overnight patient stays are included in this use subcategory, as are medical and dental laboratories, unless otherwise expressly indicated. Ancillary sales of medications and medical products are allowed in association with a medical, dental or health practitioner office.

   K.   Retail Sales: Uses involving the sale, lease, or rental of new or used goods to the ultimate consumer. Examples of specific retail use types include:

      1.   Convenience Goods:

         a.   Retail sales uses that sell or otherwise provide:

         (1)   Sundry goods;

         (2)   Products for personal grooming and for the day-to-day maintenance of personal health; or

         (3)   Food or beverages for off-premise consumption, including grocery stores, retail bakeries and similar uses that provide incidental and accessory food and beverage service as part of their primary retail sales business.

         b.   Typical uses include convenience stores, drug stores, grocery and specialty food stores, wine or liquor stores, gift shops, newsstands, and florists.

      2.   Consumer Shopping Goods: Retail sales uses that sell or otherwise provide wearing apparel, fashion accessories, furniture, household appliances and similar consumer goods, large and small, functional, and decorative, for use, entertainment, comfort, or aesthetics. Typical uses include clothing stores, appliance stores, TV and electronics stores, bike shops, book stores, stationery stores, art galleries, hobby shops, furniture stores, pet supply stores, shoe stores, toy stores, sporting goods stores, variety stores, musical instrument stores, medical supplies, office supplies and office furnishing stores.

      3.   Building Supplies and Equipment: Retail sales uses that sell or otherwise provide goods to repair, maintain, or visually enhance a structure or premises. Typical uses include hardware stores, home improvement stores, paint and wallpaper supply stores and garden supply stores.

   L.   Self-service Storage Facility: A building or open-air use that provides separate, small-scale, self-service storage facilities leased or rented to individuals or small businesses. Such uses are expressly prohibited in the village.

   M.   Vehicle Sales and Service: Uses that provide for the sale, rental, maintenance, or repair of new or used vehicles and vehicular equipment. The vehicle sales and service use subcategory includes the following specific use types:

      1.   Fueling Station (for Personal, Consumer Vehicles): Uses engaged in retail sales of vehicle fuels for personal vehicles, other than fleet fueling facilities and truck stops. Fueling stations may dispense conventional vehicle fuels and/or alternative vehicle fuels.

      2.   Personal Vehicle Repair and Maintenance: Uses that repair, install, or maintain the mechanical components of automobiles, small trucks or vans, , or motorcycles or that wash, clean, or otherwise protect the exterior or interior surfaces of these vehicles.

      3.   Personal Vehicle Sales and Rentals: Uses that provide for the sale or rental of new or used autos, small trucks or vans, trailers, or motorcycles. Typical examples include automobile dealers, auto malls, car rental agencies.

      4.   Vehicle Body and Paint Finishing Shop: Uses that primarily conduct motor vehicle body work and repairs or that apply paint to the exterior or interior surfaces of motor vehicles by spraying, dipping, flow-coating or other similar means. (Ord. 2025-1446, 10-9-2025)

This category includes uses that store and distribute goods, including establishments that store, process, and distribute electronic data. The storage and distribution subcategories are as follows:

   A.   Warehouse, Limited: Indoor storage of goods, products, or materials.

      1.   Supplemental Use Regulations:

         a.   Limited warehouse facilities may not include more than two (2) truck loading bays.

         b.   Outdoor storage is prohibited.

   B.   Data Center: A building used primarily for the storage, management, processing, and transmission of digital data and that houses computer or network equipment, systems, servers, appliances, and other associated components related to digital data storage and operations. (Ord. 2025-1446, 10-9-2025)

This category includes uses that produce goods and products, including the design, storage and handling of these products and the materials from which they are produced. The manufacturing subcategories are:

   A.   Artisan Manufacturing: On-site production of goods by hand manufacturing, involving the use of hand tools and small-scale, light mechanical equipment in a completely enclosed building with no outdoor operations or storage. Typical uses include woodworking and cabinet shops, ceramic studios, jewelry manufacturing and similar types of arts and crafts or very small-scale manufacturing uses that have no negative external impacts on surrounding properties.

   B.   Low-Impact Manufacturing and Industry: Manufacturing or refurbishing of finished parts or products, primarily from previously prepared materials. Typical uses include: catering establishments, craft brewing and distilling (as defined and regulated by ILCS Ch. 235), printing and related support activities; machinery manufacturing; food processing and manufacturing; computer and electronic product manufacturing/assembly; electrical equipment, appliance, component manufacturing/ assembly; furniture and related product manufacturing/assembly; and other manufacturing and production establishments that typically have very few, if any, negative external impacts on surrounding properties. Also includes "artisan industrial" uses that do not comply with the enclosed building or outside operations/storage criteria that apply to such uses. (Ord. 2025-1446, 10-9-2025)

This category includes uses that do not fit the other use categories. The subcategories of "other" uses are as follows:

   A.   Cannabis Business Establishment: A cannabis dispensary, cannabis cultivation center, cannabis craft grower, cannabis infuser, cannabis transporter, cannabis processor, on-premises cannabis consumption establishment, and such other cannabis business establishments authorized under the under the Cannabis Regulation and Tax Act.

      1.   Cannabis Consumption Establishment, On-Premises: A cannabis dispensary, or retail tobacco store (as defined in Section 10 of the Smoke Free Illinois Act), authorized or permitted to allow the on-premises consumption of cannabis.

      2.   Cannabis Craft Grower: A "craft grower," as defined in Section 1-10 of the Cannabis Regulation and Tax Act.

      3.   Cannabis Cultivation Center: A "cultivation center," as defined in Section 1-10 of the Cannabis Regulation and Tax Act.

      4.   Cannabis Dispensary: A "dispensing organization" and "dispensary," as defined in Section 1-10 of the Cannabis Regulation and Tax Act.

      5.   Cannabis Infuse: An "infuser organization" or "infuser," as defined in Section 1-10 of the Cannabis Regulation and Tax Act.

      6.   Cannabis Processor: A "processing organization" or "processer," as defined in Section 1-10 of the Cannabis Regulation and Tax Act.

      7.   Cannabis Transporter: A "transporting organization" or "transporter," as defined in Section 1-10 of the Cannabis Regulation and Tax Act.

   B.   Drive-through Facility: A component or feature of an allowed use that by design, physical facilities, service procedures, or packaging procedures, encourages or permits customers to receive services or obtain goods while remaining in motor vehicles. Typical drive-through facility uses include, but are not limited to, drive-through restaurants, drive-through banks, car washes, and drive-through pharmacies. Establishments that provide services to customers remaining in a motor vehicle while it is parked in a parking space designated for curbside pickup are not designated as drive-through facilities.

      1.   Supplemental Use Regulations: Drive-through facilities are subject to the following supplemental regulations:

         a.   A traffic study, including an analysis of vehicle stacking (queuing) demand, must be included with the special use permit application.

         b.   All drive-through lanes must be designed so that they do not interfere with parking movements or safe pedestrian circulation and must be located and designed to ensure that they do not adversely affect traffic circulation on adjoining streets. Drive-through lanes on corner lots may not route exiting traffic into residential neighborhoods.

         c.   Site plans must show the location of drive-through windows and associated facilities (for example: communications systems and access aisles), as well as adjacent residential uses.

         d.   Sound attenuation walls, landscaping or other mitigation measures may be required to ensure that drive-through facilities will not have adverse noise- or air-quality-related impacts on residential uses located within two hundred feet (200') of the lot containing the drive-through facility.

         e.   All restaurant drive-through facilities must have an escape ("bail-out") lane with a minimum width of ten feet (10') to allow other vehicles to pass those waiting to be served. A drive aisle may serve as the escape lane if it meets the requirements of this section. Escape lane requirements can be waived during the special use permit approval process when the applicant demonstrates that such a waiver will not result in an adverse effect on public safety or customer convenience.

         f.   All vehicle stacking lanes must be clearly identified, through such means as striping, landscaping, pavement design, curbing and/or signs.

   C.   Video Gaming: Any establishment that includes one or more video gaming terminals, as defined in 230 ILCS 40/5.

   D.   Wireless Communication Facility: Towers, antennas, equipment, equipment buildings and other facilities used in the provision of wireless communication services.

      1.   Freestanding Tower: A monopole structure intended to support equipment that is used to transmit and/or receive telecommunications signals, but not including guyed or lattice construction steel structures.

      2.   Building or Tower-Mounted Antenna: The physical device that is attached to a freestanding tower, nonresidential building or other structure, through which electromagnetic, wireless telecommunications signals authorized by the Federal Communications Commission are transmitted or received.

      3.   Supplemental Use Regulations: Wireless communication facilities are subject to the regulations of Chapter 7. (Ord. 2025-1446, 10-9-2025)