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Stickney City Zoning Code

SECTION 9

- HARLEM AVENUE AND CICERO AVENUE BUSINESS DISTRICT

Section 9.00.- Establishment.

There shall be established in the Village of Stickney a B-2 zoning district to be known as the "Harlem Avenue and Cicero Avenue Business District" consisting of all lots which are located within the area designated business district on the zoning map. All lots located within the Harlem Avenue and Cicero Avenue Business District shall be subject to the regulations set forth herein.

(Ord. No. 2021-01, § 5, 2-2-2021)

Section 9.01. - Permitted uses.

The following uses are permitted in the Harlem Avenue and Cicero Avenue Business District:

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

Antique stores

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

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

Cell phone or cell phone accessory stores, cell phone payment centers

China and glassware stores

Seasonal or specialty sales lots (i.e., Christmas tree lots, pumpkin lots, etc.) including the use of a temporary structure or trailer for sales office for no more than three months in a 12 month period

Clothing stores

Coins and philatelic stores

Custom dressmaking

Drug stores, pharmacies

Dry goods stores

Electrical and household appliance stores including radio and television sales

Engineers offices

Filling stations

Fire stations

Flower shops and conservatories

Food stores, grocery stores and meat markets

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

Gymnasiums, commercial health clubs, reducing salons, weight loss clinics

Hardware stores

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

Ice cream and milk machine sales

Ice cream stores

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

Leather goods stores

Luggage stores

Monument sales

Motion picture studios

Motor vehicle sales and rental

Municipal buildings

Music, musical instrument and record/C.D. shops

Novelty stores

Office equipment sales and repair establishments

Office equipment supplies stores

Orthopedic and medical supply stores

Paint and wallpaper stores

Parking area, private, as accessory use

Pet shops

Photocopying, printing shops

Photographs, art galleries and studios

Physical, cultural and health services

Police stations

Political organization offices

Public libraries

Public utility uses

Railroad passenger stations

Railroad rights-of-way

Resale shops for apparel and accessories

Residence of proprietor of a commercial use in same location (commercial use only allowed on the first floor - residence on the first floor prohibited)

Restaurants and catering establishments

Schools

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

Secretarial services

Security and commodity brokers

Service stations

Shoe stores

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

Tattoo shops, tattoo parlors

Taxidermists

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 (including vape, pipe, or smoking accessory shops)

Toy shops

Variety stores (dollar stores)

Vending machines, as accessory use

(Ord. No. 2021-01, § 5, 2-2-2021)

Section 9.02. - Special uses.

The following special uses may be permitted in the Harlem Avenue and Cicero Avenue Business District:

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

Automobile laundries (car washes)

Banks and other financial institutions, loan companies, loan offices, savings and loan

Adult-use cannabis business establishments (including adult-use cannabis cultivation center, craft grower, processing organization, infuser organization, dispensing organization or transporting organization) as defined in section 4.24

Clubs, lodges, fraternal or religious organizations

Convalescent centers, nursing homes, geriatric centers and rest homes

Currency exchanges

Day-care homes and nighttime homes for child care

Drive-in facilities for banks and other financial institutions

Dry cleaners, launderettes, self-service laundries (includes laundromats) and laundry collection stations

Dyeing and rug cleaning establishments

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

Exterminating shops

Firearms retailers and gun ranges

Food lockers, including frozen food lockers

Funeral parlors, undertaking establishments, crematoriums

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, retirement homes 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

Machinery rental, sales and service

Mixed-use properties, a use that contains both commercial and residential uses with all residential uses being prohibited on the first on the first floor.

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

Offices, business and professional

Opticians and optometrists

Parking lots and storage garages

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

Post offices, post office substations

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

Race track, raceway, speedway

Radio and transmission towers

Tailor shops

(Ord. No. 2021-01, § 5, 2-2-2021)

Section 9.03. - Use restriction.

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

(Ord. No. 2021-01, § 5, 2-2-2021)

Section 9.04. - Height limitation.

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

(Ord. No. 2021-01, § 5, 2-2-2021)

Section 9.05. - Front yard.

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

(Ord. No. 2021-01, § 5, 2-2-2021)

Section 9.06. - Rear yard.

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.

(Ord. No. 2021-01, § 5, 2-2-2021)

Section 9.07. - Side yard.

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

(Ord. No. 2021-01, § 5, 2-2-2021)

Section 9.08. - Intensity of use.

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. 2021-01, § 5, 2-2-2021)