There shall be established in the Village of Stickney a business district consisting of all lots which are located within the area designated business district on the zoning map. All lots located within the business district shall be subject to the regulations set forth herein.

The following uses are permitted in a business district:

Accessory uses as defined in this ordinance which are incidental in the conduct of a permitted use

Antique stores

Apartment buildings

Art and school supplies stores, including picture framing for retail trade

Artisan shops, the custom production of goods, including but not limited to, ceramic, painting, weaving, leather works, jewelry and clothing, either for sale or for the use of the artist

Auction rooms

Automobile accessory stores

Automobile service stations

Bakeries employing fewer than five persons

Banks and other financial institutions

Barbershops

Bars, taverns, cocktail lounges and package liquor stores

Beauty parlors and shops

Bicycle stores, sales, rent and repair

Blueprinting

Boat and marine sales

Book and stationery stores

Building materials sales and storage and millwork

Camera and photographic supplies stores

Candy, confectionary and ice cream stores

Carpet and rug stores but not including carpet or rug cleaning

Chambers of commerce

China and glassware stores

Christmas tree sales lots during the month of December, including the use of a temporary structure or trailer for sales office

Churches, chapels, temples and synagogues

Clothing pressing establishments

Clothing stores

Coins and philatelic stores

Community center buildings and club houses of not-for-profit organizations

Contractors or construction offices and shops such as building, cement, electrical, ventilation, heating, masonry, painting, air conditioning, plumbing, refrigeration and roofing providing that outside storage of material was screened by a solid wall or uniformly painted fence art least eight feet high.

Currency exchanges

Custom dressmaking

Drug stores, pharmacies

Dry cleaners, launderettes, self-service laundries and laundry collection stations

Dry cleaning and laundry establishments employing less than five persons, which use only nonflammable solvents in the cleaning process

Dry goods stores

Dwelling units

Electrical and household appliance stores including radio and television sales

Employment agencies

Engineers offices

Exterminating shops

Filling stations

Fire stations

Fix it shops for general minor repairs

Flower shops and conservatories

Food lockers

Food stores, grocery stores and meat markets

Funeral parlors, undertaking establishments

Furniture stores

Furniture stores, including upholstery when conducted as part of retail operation and secondary to the principal use

Furrier shops

Garden supply and seed stores

Gift shops

Greenhouses and plant nurseries

Guest houses

Gymnasiums, commercial health clubs, reducing salons

Haberdasheries

Hardware stores

Hobbyshops for retail sale of items to be used for assembly away from the premises

Hotels

Ice cream and milk machine sales

Ice cream stores

Insurance agencies

Investment companies

Interior decorating shops, including upholstery and making of draperies, slip covers and other similar activities when conducted as part of retail operations secondary to the principal use

Jewelry stores

Job and offset printing

Labor union offices and organizations

Laboratories, medical, dental and research

Laundries

Leather goods stores

Loan companies

Loan offices

Locksmith shops

Lodge halls

Lodginghouse, roominghouse

Luggage stores

Mail order catalogs stores

Monument sales

Motion picture studios

Motor vehicle sales and rental

Municipal buildings

Museums, car

Music, musical instrument and record shops

Newsstands and agencies

Notions, novelty stores

Office equipment sales and repair establishments

Office equipment supplies stores

Offices, business and professional

Opticians and optometrists

Orthopedic and medical supply stores

Paint and wallpaper stores

Parking area, private, as accessory use

Parking lots and storage garages

Parking lots and storage areas for motor vehicles under one and one-half ton capacity

Pet shops

Photocopying

Photographs, art galleries and studios

Physical, cultural and health services

Police stations

Political organization offices

Post offices, post office substations and office buildings

Printing shops

Public garages servicing automobiles and trucks under one and one-half ton capacity, but not including body repair and painting

Public libraries

Public utility uses

Publishing establishments but not printing plants

Railroad passenger stations

Railroad rights-of-way

Real estate offices

Recreation clubs

Regional sales offices

Religious reading rooms

Resale shops for apparel and accessories

Residence of proprietor of a commercial use

Restaurants and catering establishments

Restricted production and repair limited to art needle work, clothing, custom manufacturing and alterations for retail sales on the premises of clothing, jewelry, clocks and watches

Savings and loans

Schools

Secondhand stores and rummage shops, other than resale shop for apparel

Secretarial services

Security and commodity brokers

Service stations

Sewing machine sales and services, household machines only

Shoe stores

Shoe and hat repair shops

Shoeshine parlors

Show rooms, sales rooms, stores or shops for the conduct of retail business

Sound recording studios provided that they are sound proof to the extent that noise and vibration levels permitted from said studios are immeasurable outside the property controlled by the sound recording studio

Sporting goods stores

Tailor shops

Tailor shops employing five or fewer persons

Tattoo shops, tattoo parlors

Taxidermists

Telegraph, telephone and other utility businesses

Telephone booths

Temporary building for construction purposes for a period not to exceed duration of construction

Theatres and places of public amusement

Ticket agencies

Tobacco shops

Toy shops

Travel agencies or bureaus and transportation ticket offices

Variety stores

Vending machines, as accessory use

Wholesale establishments where storage of merchandise is limited to samples only

(Ord. No. 2016-12, Art. II, § 4.0, 4-19-2016)

The following special uses may be permitted in a business district:

Amusement establishments, including, but not limited to, bowling alleys, pool halls, dance halls and skating rinks

Automobile laundries (car washes)

Clubs, lodges, fraternal or religious

Convalescent centers, nursing homes, geriatric centers and rest homes

Day-care homes and nighttime homes for child care

Drive-in facilities for banks and other financial institutions

Dyeing and rug cleaning establishments

Eating establishments, food cooperatives in legally established churches, hospitals, nursery schools and nursing homes

Firearms retailers and gun ranges

Frozen food lockers

Garages, public, including body repair and painting carried out in approved spray booths provided that all the walls of the paint shops which are adjacent to or across the street from a residence district should be solid with no opening except for required fire doors

Garden supply and seed stores

Hospitals, sanitariums and nursing homes not including institutions for the care and treatment of the insane, feebleminded, retarded, alcoholic or drug addict patient

Ice cream production and distribution

Laundries employing five or more persons including towel, diaper and other similar supply services

Machinery rental, sales and service

Motel

Nursery schools, children's day schools, day nurseries, child care centers provided that at least 50 square feet of outdoor play area is provided for each child cared for

Open sales lots and temporary standards for the sale of farm produce or Christmas trees

Open sales lots and temporary standards for the sale of farm produce and Christmas trees

Parking lots and storage areas for motor vehicles under 1½-ton capacity

Political organization offices

Printing plant and screen printing

Race track and raceways

Radio and transmission towers

Resale shop for apparel and accessories

Retirement homes

Speedway

(Ord. No. 2016-11, Art. II, § 4.1, 4-19-2016; Ord. No. 2016-12, Art. II, § 4.1, 4-19-2016)

No land use which is listed herein as a special use in the heavy industrial district shall be permitted in a business district.

The height of any building or structure located in a business district shall not exceed 45 feet or three stories, whichever is higher.

There shall be a front yard of not less than 16 feet in the business district.

In the business district there shall be a rear yard of not less than ten percent of the depth of any lot, provided that the rear yard shall be required to exceed ten feet. Parking is permitted in a rear yard in a business district.

A side yard, if provided, shall not be less than three feet wide.

No business with its accessory buildings to be used for business district purposes shall occupy in excess of 90 percent of the area of the lot. Buildings used wholly for residence purposes shall conform to the restrictions provided herein for buildings in the single-family residence district. Any buildings hereafter constructed, altered, enlarged or rebuilt, to be used partially for residence purposes in a business district shall provide not less than 900 square feet of lot area per family.

(Ord. No. 2013-06, § 2, 4-2-2013)