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Summit City Zoning Code

CHAPTER 7

ALLOWED USES

11-7-1: Use Regulations

Principal uses are allowed in accordance with Table 7-1.

  1. Use Classification System: Uses are listed in the first column of Table 7-1. This zoning ordinance classifies uses into categories and subcategories, which are defined in Chapter 7. 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 7.
  2. Permitted Uses: Uses identified with a “P” are permitted as-of-right in the subject zoning district, subject to compliance with any supplemental regulations identified in the final column of Table 7-1 and with all other applicable regulations of this zoning ordinance.
  3. 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 identified in the final column of Table 7-1 and with all other applicable regulations of this zoning ordinance.
  4. Special Uses: Uses identified with an “S” may be allowed if reviewed and approved in accordance with the special use procedures of 11-15-5. Special use uses are subject to compliance with any supplemental regulations identified in the final column of Table 7-1 and with all other applicable regulations of this zoning ordinance.
  5. 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 11-7-2(D)) to fall within any defined use category are also prohibited.
  6. Supplemental Regulations: The “supplemental regulations” column of Table 7-1 identifies 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 approval.
  7. Accessory Uses: Accessory uses, such as home occupations, are not regulated by Table 7-1. Customary accessory uses are allowed in conjunction with principal uses permitted by right or by special use, subject to compliance with all applicable accessory use regulations of Chapter 9.

    Table 7-1: Use Regulations
    USE CATEGORYZONING DISTRICTSSupplemental Regulations
    Subcategory (See definition in Section 11-20-23) Specific use R-1R-2R-3R-4MXC1C2I-1I-2I-3P
    RESIDENTIAL
    Household Living
    1 household on a lot
    PPPPUU-----11-8-3
    2 households on single lot
    -PPPUU-----
    3 or 4 households on single lot
    --PPUU-----
    5 or more households on single lot
    ---PUU-----
    Group Living
    Group home
    SSSSSS----P11-7-3(B)(1)
    Institutional Home
    --SSSS-----
    Nursing home
    SSSSUU----S
    Sheltered Care
    SSSSUU-----
    Transitional Housing--SSSS-----11-7-3(B)(5); 11-20-24
    Other group living uses
    ---SUU-----
    PUBLIC, CIVIC AND INSTITUTIONAL
    Cemetery
    ----------P
    College or University
    ----UPP--PP
    Community Center
    PPPPPPPP--P
    Hospital
    -----SS-PP-
    Library or Cultural Exhibit
    ----PPP-PPP
    Natural Resource Preservation
    Parks and Recreation
    PPPPPPP-PPP
    Safety Service
    ----PPP-PPP
    School
    ----SSS-SSP
    Utilities and Public Service Facility
    Minor
    PPPPPPPPPPP
    Major
    SSSSSSSSSSS
    COMMERCIAL
    Adult Entertainment Establishment
    --------SS-11-8-2
    Animal Service
    Boarding or shelter
    ------PP---
    Grooming
    ----PPPP---
    Veterinary
    ----PPPP---
    Assembly and Entertainment
    Indoor
    Small, Secular (up to 250-person capacity)
    ---SPPPP---
    Small, Non-secular (up to 250 capacity)
    PPPPPPPP--P
    Large Secular (>250-person capacity)
    -----PP----
    Large, Non-secular (>250 capacity)
    PPPP-PP---P
    Outdoor, Secular or Non-secular
    ----SSS---S
    Commercial Service
    Building service
    ------PP---
    Business support service
    ----P/UPP----
    Consumer maintenance/repair service
    ----PPPPS--
    Personal improvement service
    ----PPPP---
    Research service
    ----UPPP---
    Day Care
    Day care home
    PPPP-------
    Day care center
    ----PP----S
    Eating and Drinking Places
    Bar or Tavern
    ----PPP----
    Restaurant
    ----PPP----
    Financial Service (except as below)
    ----PPP----
    Personal credit establishment
    ----PPP----
    Funeral and Mortuary Service
    ---P-PPP---
    Lodging
    Bed & breakfast
    SSSPUPP----
    Hotel/motel
    ---PPPP----
    Short-term rental
    SSSPUPP----
    Office
    Business or professional office
    ---PUPPPP--
    Medical, dental or health practitioner office
    ---PPPPPP--
    Parking, Non-Accessory
    ----SSSPPPS
    Retail Sales
    Building supplies and equipment
    -----PPPP--
    Consumer shopping goods
    ----PPP----
    Convenience goods
    ----PPP----
    Liquor sales
    -----PP----
    Self-service Storage Facility
    ----U-PP---11-8-6
    Studio, Artist or Instructional Service
    ----PPPPS-P
    Trade School
    ----UPPPSS-
    Vehicle Sales and Service
    Commercial vehicle repair/maintenance --------SP-
    Commercial vehicle sales and rentals (including contractor and other equipment rental)
    --------SP-
    Fueling station
    -----PSPPP-
    Personal vehicle repair and maintenance
    -----PS-P--
    Personal vehicle sales and rentals
    -----SS----11-8-7
    Vehicle part and supply sales
    -----PP-S--
    Vehicle body and paint finishing shop
    ------SSPP-
    WHOLESALE, DISTRIBUTION & STORAGE
    Equipment and Materials Storage, Outdoor
    ------S-PP-
    Trucking and Transportation Terminals
    --------SP-
    Warehouse
    ------PPPP-
    Wholesale Sales and Distribution
    --------PP-
    INDUSTRIAL
    Artisan Manufacturing
    ----PPPPPP-
    Low-Impact Manufacturing and Industry
    ------SPPP-
    Moderate-Impact Manufacturing and Industry
    --------PP-
    High-Impact Manufacturing and Industry
    ---------P-
    Junk or Salvage Yard
    -----------
    Mining/Quarrying
    -----------
    RECYCLING
    Construction or Demolition Debris
    -----------
    Recyclable Material Drop-off Facility
    ------PPPP-
    Recyclable Material Processing
    ---------P-
    AGRICULTURAL
    Agriculture, Crop
    PPPPPPPPPPP
    Community Garden
    PPPPPPPPPPP11-8-5
    OTHER
    Drive-in or Drive-through Facility (as a component of an allowed principal use)
    -----PP----
    Cannabis Business Establishments
    Cannabis dispensing organization
    -----SSSSS-11-8-4
    Cannabis cultivation center
    -------SSS-11-8-4
    Cannabis craft grower-------SSS
    11-8-4
    Cannabis infuser
    -----SSSSS
    11-8-4
    Cannabis processor
    -------SSS
    11-8-4
    Cannabis transporter-------SSS
    11-8-4
    Off-premise Outdoor Advertising Sign
    -----SSSSS-11-13-6(B)
    Wireless Communication Facility
    Freestanding tower
    SSSSSSSSSSS11-8-8
    Tower-mounted or building-mounted antenna
    PPPPPPPPPPP11-8-8
HISTORY
Amended by Ord. 20-O-22 on 8/17/2020
Amended by Ord. 21-O-09 Regulate Group Living on 6/21/2021
Amended by Ord. 21-O-15 on 8/16/2021
Amended by Ord. 23-O-04 Amending Special Uses on 2/6/2023

11-7-2: Use Categories Generally

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

  1. Use Categories: This zoning ordinance classifies principal land uses into 8 major groupings (described in 11-7-3 through 11-7-10). These major groupings are referred to as “use categories.” The use categories are as follows:
    1. Residential. See 11-7-3.
    2. Public, Civic and Institutional. See 11-7-4.
    3. Commercial. See 11-7-5.
    4. Wholesale, Distribution and Storage. See 11-7-6.
    5. Industrial. See 11-7-7.
    6. Recycling. See 11-7-8.
    7. Agricultural. See 11-7-9.
    8. Other. See 11-7-10.
  2. 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.
  3. Specific Use Types: Some use subcategories are further broken down to identify specific types of uses that are regulated differently than the subcategory as a whole.
  4. Determination of Use Categories and Subcategories:
    1. The building official has the authority to classify uses on the basis of the use category, subcategory and specific use type descriptions of this chapter.
    2. When a use cannot be reasonably classified into a use category, subcategory or specific use type, or appears to fit into multiple categories, subcategories or specific use types, the building official or building official is authorized to determine the most similar and thus most appropriate use category, subcategory or specific use type based on the actual or projected characteristics of the principal use or activity in relationship to the use category, subcategory and specific use type descriptions provided in this chapter. In making such determinations, the building official or building official must consider:
      1. The types of activities that will occur in conjunction with the use;
      2. The types of equipment and processes to be used;
      3. The existence, number and frequency of residents, customers or employees;
      4. Parking demands associated with the use; and
      5. Other factors deemed relevant to a use determination.
    3. If a use can reasonably be classified in multiple categories, subcategories or specific use types, the building official or building official is authorized to categorize each use in the category, subcategory or specific use type that provides the most exact, narrowest and appropriate “fit.”

11-7-3: Residential Use Category

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

  1. Household Living: Residential occupancy of a dwelling unit by a household. When dwelling units are rented, tenancy is arranged on a month-to-month or longer basis. 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 a residential building type that is permitted in the subject zoning districts, as indicated in Table 7-1.
  2. 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, assisted living facilities, sheltered care facilities, retirement centers, homeless centers, overnight shelters, boarding houses, and halfway houses:
    1. Group Home: A specialized residential care home serving up to eight (8) unrelated persons with disabilities, and with resident support staff (no more than four (4) staff may reside at any one time), which is licensed, certified or accredited by appropriate local, state or national bodies. The occupancy of such group homes shall be limited to no more than two persons per bedroom, including resident support staff. Such persons are generally unable to live independently but are capable of community living if provided with an appropriate level of supervision, assistance and support services, but who do not require on-site medical or nursing facilities, with the primary goal of developing or exercising basic skills for daily living. Group homes do not include a residence which serves persons as an alternative to incarceration for a criminal offense, persons whose primary reason for placement is substance or alcohol abuse or the treatment of a communicable disease, or persons convicted of criminal offenses or declared criminally insane or dangerous. No such Group Home shall be located within 500 feet of any other Group Home, Institutional Home, or Transitional Housing, irrespective of the zoning district in which any such Group Home, Institutional Home, or Transitional Housing is located.
    2. Institutional Home: Any residential facility located in a dwelling, under federal, state or village licensing, that is designed, used or intended to be used to provide a temporary or permanent home environment with professional services and treatment while conducting rehabilitative programs, shelter programs, or providing special housing for mentally or physically handicapped persons, where the occupants are allowed to interact with the community while in residence, which primarily serves persons as an alternative to incarceration for a criminal offense, persons whose primary reason for placement is substance or alcohol abuse or the treatment of a communicable disease, or persons convicted of criminal offenses or declared criminally insane or dangerous. The number of persons in such Institutional Home shall be limited to eight (8) unrelated persons, and no more than four (4) resident support staff at any one time. The occupancy of such institutional housing shall be limited to no more than two persons per bedroom, including resident support staff. No such Institutional Home shall be located within 500 feet of any other Institutional Home, Group Home, or Transitional Housing, irrespective of the zoning district in which any such Institutional Home, Group Home, or Transitional Housing is located.
    3. Nursing Home: A “long-term care facility,” as defined in 210 ILCS 45/1-113, that provides skilled nursing care.
    4. Sheltered Care: A “long-term care facility,” as defined in 210 ILCS 45/1-113, that provides maintenance and personal care.
    5. Transitional Housing: A short-term residential facility serving mainly the homeless or persons temporarily without housing that provides shelter in conjunction with mental health, medical, or counseling services administered on-site by a civic, educational, religious, or charitable organization, which may be under federal, state, county, or local licensing. Because the intent of Transitional Housing is to prepare residents to transition to permanent housing, a residential stay by any individual in approved Transitional Housing is limited to twenty-four months. The authorization for Transitional Housing may include the preparation and consumption of food limited to persons residing or receiving services on-site. No such Transitional Housing shall be located within 500 feet of any other Transitional Housing, Group Home, or Institutional Home, irrespective of the zoning district in which any such Transitional Housing, Group Home, or Institutional Home is located. The Village Board may impose limits on the number of residents and occupants of a Transitional Housing facility depending on the physical size of the facility and the zoning district in which it is located.
HISTORY
Amended by Ord. 20-O-22 on 8/17/2020
Amended by Ord. 21-O-09 Regulate Group Living on 6/21/2021

11-7-4: Public, Civic And Institutional Use Category

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

  1. Cemetery: Land or structures used for burial or permanent storage of the dead or their cremated remains. Typical uses include cemeteries and mausoleums. Also includes pet cemeteries.
  2. College or University: Institutions of higher learning that offer courses of general or specialized study and are authorized to grant academic degrees. The college or university use subcategory includes classrooms and instructional spaces, as well as on-campus residence halls, fraternity and sorority houses, administrative buildings, auditoriums and other on-campus uses and facilities that provide customary accessory and support functions for college or university uses.
  3. Community Center: A structure, including its surrounding premises, that is owned, leased or otherwise controlled by a unit of local government or a school district and that contains rooms or other facilities limited to use for purposes of meetings, gatherings or other functions or activities carried on or performed by or under the supervision of a unit of local government, a school district or a civic, educational, religious or charitable organization. The authorization for the establishment of a municipal community center may include authorization for the incidental and accessory sale or resale of food, merchandise or services in connection with and in support of the principal activity or function being carried on or performed by such unit of local government, school district or organization.
  4. Hospital: Uses providing medical or surgical care to patients and offering inpatient (overnight) care.
  5. 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.
  6. Natural Resource Preservation: Undeveloped land left in a natural state for specific use as visual open space or environmental purposes. Typical uses include wildlife or nature preserves, arboretums, flood management projects and reservoirs.
  7. 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.
  8. Religious Assembly: See “Non-Secular Assembly and Entertainment” (11-7-5(C)(1)).
  9. 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.
  10. School: Public and private schools at the primary, elementary, middle school or high school level that provide basic, compulsory education.
  11. Utilities and Public Service Facility:
    1. Minor:
      1. 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. The production, collection or distribution of renewable energy, water, organic waste, or other similar resources at a neighborhood, district or campus scale are classified as minor utilities and public service facilities. This includes distributed energy facilities that produce or distribute energy from renewable sources; neighborhood composting areas and neighborhood stormwater facilities.
      3. District-, neighborhood- or campus-scale systems that produce or distribute energy from the biological breakdown of organic matter produced within the subject neighborhood or campus are also considered minor utilities and public service facilities.
      4. Energy production systems that generate energy from the byproducts of the principal use are considered accessory uses, including net metered installations and installations that generate power to sell back to the power grid at a reasonable rate established by the utility provider.
    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), sanitary landfills and utility-scale water storage facilities, such as water towers and reservoirs.

11-7-5: Commercial Use Category

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.

  1. Adult Entertainment Establishment: Adult bookstores, adult motion picture theaters, adult entertainment cabarets, and similar sexually oriented entertainment uses.
    1. Adult Bookstore: An establishment having, as a substantial or significant portion of its sales or stock in trade, books, magazines, films for rent, sale or for viewing on premises by use of motion picture devices or by coin operated means, and periodicals which are distinguished or characterized by their emphasis on matter depicting, describing or relating to specified sexual activities or specified anatomical areas; or an establishment with a segment or section devoted to the sale or display of such materials; or an establishment that holds itself out to the public as a purveyor of such materials based upon its signage, advertising, displays, actual sales, presence of video preview or coin operated booths, exclusion of minors from the establishment's premises or any other factors showing the establishment's primary purpose is to purvey such material.
    2. Adult Entertainment Cabaret: A public or private establishment which: a) features topless dancers, strippers, or male or female impersonators; b) not infrequently features entertainers who display specified anatomical areas; c) features entertainers who, by reason of their appearance or conduct, perform in a manner which is designed primarily to appeal to the prurient interest of the patron; or d) entertainers who engage in or are engaged in explicit simulation of specified sexual activities.
    3. Adult Motion Picture Theater: A building or area used for presenting materials distinguished or characterized by an emphasis on matter depicting, describing or relating to specified sexual activities or specified anatomical areas for observation by patrons therein.
  2. Animal Service: Uses that provide goods and services for care of animals, including the following specific use types:
    1. Grooming: Grooming of dogs, cats and similar small animals, including dog bathing and clipping salons and pet grooming shops.
    2. 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.
    3. Veterinary: Animal hospitals and veterinary clinics.
  3. Assembly and Entertainment: Uses that provide gathering places for secular or non-secular assembly or entertainment events or for participants in recreation or entertainment activities. Assembly and entertainment 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. When outdoor seating and assembly areas exceed 50% of the indoor floor area of the religious assembly the entire use is regulated as an outdoor use.
    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 health clubs, gymnasiums, riding stables and academies, banquet halls, entertainment centers, event centers, billiard centers, bowling centers, fraternal organizations, private (member-based) clubs, community centers, cinemas, go-cart tracks, laser tag, paintball, miniature golf courses, stadiums, arenas, video arcades, race tracks, fairgrounds, rodeo grounds, water parks, amusement parks, food truck courts, and live theaters. When outdoor seating, assembly and entertainment areas exceed 50% of the indoor floor area of the subject principal use the entire use is regulated as an outdoor use.
  4. 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 use types 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, day labor hiring services, armored car services, copy and print shops, delivery/courier service drop-off location for consumers, caterers, telephone answering services 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, taxidermists, dressmakers, shoe repair, picture framing shops, gunsmiths, 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, body art services and fortune telling services.
    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 services do not produce odors, dust, noise, vibration or other external impacts that are detectable beyond the property lines of the subject property.
  5. Day Care: Uses providing care, protection and supervision for children or adults on a regular basis away from their primary residence for less than 24 hours per day. Examples include state-licensed childcare centers, preschools, nursery schools, head start programs, after-school programs and adult day care facilities. Day care expressly includes state-accredited adult day care facilities and facilities for childcare, as defined in the Illinois Child Care Act.
    1. Day Care Center: A facility licensed by the State of Illinois that provides day care for more than 8 children or any number of adults.
    2. Day Care Home: A dwelling unit licensed by the State of Illinois in which day care is provided for a maximum of 8 children, excluding all natural, adopted and foster children of the residents of the dwelling unit.
  6. Eating and Drinking Places:
    1. Bar or Tavern: Uses that cater primarily to adults, 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, brewpubs, nightclubs and similar establishments. See also Title 5, Chapter 2 of the village code.
    2. Restaurant: An establishment that serves food or beverages for on- or off-premise 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 an accessory use bar if the restaurant employs at least one full-time cook, has a menu, a fully equipped kitchen for cooking and preparation of meals and in which dining, kitchen and non-service areas occupy at least 75% of the floor area of the business.
  7. 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 11-9-1(B)).Typical examples of financial service use types are banks, credit unions, and the following types of personal credit establishments:
    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).
  8. Funeral and Mortuary Service: Uses that provide services related to the death of a human or domestic, household pet, including funeral homes and mortuaries. Funeral and mortuary services may include crematoriums as an accessory use. Other crematoriums and animal rendering uses are classified as moderate-impact manufacturing and industry.
  9. Lodging: Uses that provide temporary lodging for less than 30 days where rents are charged by the day or by the week. Lodging uses sometimes provide food or entertainment, primarily to registered guests. Examples of specific lodging use types include:
    1. Bed and Breakfast Inn: A detached house in which the owner/operator offers overnight accommodations and meal service to overnight guests for compensation.
    2. Hotel/Motel: An establishment, other than a bed and breakfast inn or rural retreat, in which short-term lodging is offered for compensation. A hotel/motel may include an accessory use bar.
    3. Short-Term Rental: A dwelling unit that is used as a primary residence, or a portion of such a dwelling unit, that is rented for fewer than 30 consecutive days.
  10. 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 use types include:
    1. Business and Professional Office: Office uses for companies and non-governmental organizations. Examples include corporate office, law offices, architectural firms, insurance companies and other executive, management or administrative offices for businesses and corporations. Also included are union halls that offer only office and meeting space and insurance claims adjusters/estimators with no more than one vehicle inspection bay and no on-site repair facilities.
    2. Medical, Dental and Health Practitioner Office: Office uses related to diagnosis and treatment of human patients’ illnesses, injuries and physical maladies that can be performed in an office setting with no overnight care. Typical uses include offices of physicians, dentists, psychiatrists, psychologists, chiropractors and practitioners of massage therapy. Surgical, rehabilitation and other 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.
  11. Parking, Non-Accessory: Parking that is not provided to comply with minimum off-street parking requirements or that is not provided exclusively to serve occupants of or visitors to a particular use, but rather is available to the public at-large. A parking facility that provides both accessory and non-accessory parking will be classified as non-accessory parking if it leases 25% or more of its spaces to non-occupants of or persons other than visitors to a particular use.
  12. 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: 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. Typical uses include convenience stores, drug stores, grocery and specialty food stores, wine or liquor stores, gift shops, newsstands, florists and tobacco stores.
    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, department stores, appliance stores, TV and electronics stores, bike shops, book stores, costume rental stores, stationery stores, art galleries, hobby shops, furniture stores, pet stores and pet supply stores, shoe stores, antique shops, secondhand stores, record stores, toy stores, sporting goods stores, variety stores, video stores, musical instrument stores, medical supplies, office supplies and office furnishing stores and wig shops.
    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.
  13. Self-service Storage Facility: An enclosed use that provides separate, small-scale, self-service storage facilities leased or rented to individuals or small businesses. Facilities are designed and used to accommodate only interior access to storage lockers or drive-up access only from regular size passenger vehicles and two-axle non-commercial vehicles.
  14. Studio, Artist or Instructional Service: Uses in an enclosed building that focus on providing individual or small 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.
  15. Trade School: Uses in an enclosed building that focus on teaching the skills needed to perform a particular job. Examples include schools of cosmetology, modeling academies, computer training facilities, vocational schools, administrative business training facilities and similar uses. Truck driving schools are classified as “trucking and transportation terminals” (wholesale, distribution and storage use category).
  16. 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 subcategory includes the following specific use types:
    1. Commercial Vehicle Repair and Maintenance: Uses, excluding vehicle paint finishing shops, that repair, install or maintain the mechanical components or the bodies of large trucks, mass transit vehicles, large construction or agricultural equipment, aircraft or similar large vehicles and vehicular equipment. Includes truck stops and fleet vehicle fueling facilities, which may dispense conventional vehicle fuels and/or alternative vehicle fuels.
    2. Commercial Vehicle Sales and Rentals: Uses that provide for the sale or rental of large trucks, moving equipment (e.g., U-haul and Ryder) construction or agricultural equipment, aircraft, or similar large vehicles and vehicular equipment.
    3. 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. (Note: Fleet vehicle fueling facilities and truck stops are part of the “Commercial Vehicle Repair and Maintenance” specific use type). Fueling stations may dispense conventional vehicle fuels and/or alternative vehicle fuels.
    4. Personal Vehicle Repair and Maintenance: Uses that repair, install or maintain the mechanical components of automobiles, small trucks or vans, motorcycles, motor homes or recreational vehicles including recreational boats or that wash, clean or otherwise protect the exterior or interior surfaces of these vehicles.
    5. Personal Vehicle Sales and Rentals: Uses that provide for the sale or rental of new or used autos, small trucks or vans, trailers, motorcycles, motor homes or recreational vehicles including recreational watercraft. Typical examples include automobile dealers, auto malls, car rental agencies. Car-share vehicles that are parked or stored when not being used by members of a car-share program are not regulated as personal vehicle sales and rental uses but are instead considered accessory parking.
    6. Vehicle Equipment and Supplies Sales and Rentals: Uses related to the sale, lease or rental of new or used parts, tools or supplies for the purpose of repairing or maintaining motor vehicles.
    7. 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.

11-7-6: Wholesale, Distribution And Storage Use Category

This category includes uses that provide and distribute goods in large quantities, principally to retail sales, commercial services or industrial establishments. Long-term and short-term storage of supplies, equipment, commercial goods and personal items is included. The wholesale, distribution & storage subcategories are as follows.

  1. Equipment and Materials Storage, Outdoor: Uses related to outdoor storage of equipment, products or materials, whether or not stored in containers.
  2. Trucking and Transportation Terminals: Uses engaged in the dispatching and long-term or short-term storage of trucks, buses and other vehicles, including parcel service delivery vehicles, taxis and limousines. Minor repair and maintenance of vehicles stored on the premises is also included. Includes uses engaged in the moving of household or office furniture, appliances and equipment from one location to another, including the temporary on-site storage of those items.
  3. Warehouse: Uses conducted within a completely enclosed building that are engaged in long-term and short-term storage of goods and that do not meet the definition of a “self-service storage facility” or a “trucking and transportation terminal.”
  4. Wholesale Sales and Distribution: Uses engaged in the wholesale sales, bulk storage and distribution of goods. Such uses may also include incidental retail sales and wholesale showrooms. Expressly includes the following uses: bottled gas and fuel oil sales, flea markets, ice distribution centers, monument sales, portable storage building sales, vending machine sales, auctioneers, and frozen food lockers.

11-7-7: Industrial Use Category

This category includes uses that produce goods from extracted and raw materials or from recyclable or previously prepared materials, including the design, storage and handling of these products and the materials from which they are produced. The industrial subcategories are:

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. Moderate-Impact Manufacturing and Industry:
    1. Manufacturing of finished or unfinished products, primarily from extracted or raw materials, or recycled or secondary materials, or bulk storage and handling of such products and materials. Typical uses include: preparation, grinding, and mixing of animal feed; textile mills; textile product mills; apparel manufacturing; leather and allied product manufacturing; wood product manufacturing; paper manufacturing; chemical manufacturing; plastics and rubber products manufacturing; nonmetallic mineral product manufacturing; transportation equipment manufacturing; primary metal manufacturing; and fabricated metal product manufacturing. Also includes medical, scientific or technology-related research establishments that produce odors, dust, noise, vibration or other external impacts that are detectable beyond the property lines of the subject property.
    2. Industrial service firms engaged in the repair or servicing of industrial or commercial machinery, equipment, products or by-products. Typical uses include: welding shops; machine shops; industrial tool repair; fuel oil distributors; solid fuel yards; laundry, dry-cleaning and carpet cleaning plants; and photofinishing laboratories.
  4. High-Impact Manufacturing and Industry: Manufacturing and industrial uses that regularly use hazardous chemicals or procedures or produce hazardous byproducts, including manufacturing of acetylene, acid, cement, cement blocks, lime, gypsum or Plaster-of-Paris, chlorine, corrosive acid or fertilizer, insecticides, disinfectants, poisons, explosives, paint, lacquer, varnish, petroleum products, coal products, plastic and synthetic resins and radioactive materials. Also includes smelting, stamping mills, drop forges, meat packing, rendering plants, incinerators, foundries, concrete and asphalt mixing, sawmills and oil refining.
  5. Junk or Salvage Yard: An area or building where waste or scrap materials are bought, sold, exchanged, stored, baled, packed, disassembled or handled for reclamation, disposal or other like purposes, including but not limited to scrap iron and other metals, paper, rags, rubber tires and bottles.
  6. Mining/Quarrying: The extraction of mineral or aggregate resources from the ground for off-site use. Examples include quarrying or dredging for sand, gravel or other aggregate materials.

11-7-8: Recycling Use Category

This category includes uses that collect, store or process recyclable material for the purpose of marketing or reusing the material in the manufacturing of new, reused or reconstituted products. The recycling use subcategories are as follows:

  1. Construction or Demolition Debris: Establishments that receive and process general construction or demolition debris for recycling.
  2. Recyclable Material Drop-off Facility: An establishment that accepts consumer recyclable commodities directly from the consuming party and stores them temporarily before transferring them to recyclable material processing facilities. Establishments that process recyclable material are classified as “recyclable material processing facilities.”
  3. Recyclable Material Processing: Establishments that receive and process consumer recyclable commodities for subsequent use in the secondary market.

11-7-9: Agricultural Use Category

This category includes uses such as gardens, farms and orchards that involve the raising and harvesting of food and non-food crops and the raising of farm animals. The agricultural subcategories are:

  1. Agriculture, Crop: The use of land for growing, raising, or marketing of plants to produce food, feed, or fiber commodities or non-food crops. Examples of crop agriculture include cultivation and tillage of the soil and growing and harvesting of agricultural or horticultural commodities. Crop agriculture does not include community gardens or the raising or keeping of farm animals.
  2. Community Garden: An area managed and maintained by a group of individuals to grow and harvest food crops or non-food crops (e.g., flowers) for personal or group consumption, for donation or for sale that is occasional and incidental to the growing and harvesting of food crops. A community garden area may be divided into separate garden plots or orchard areas for cultivation by one or more individuals or may be farmed collectively by members of the group. A community garden may include common areas (e.g., hand tool storage sheds) maintained and used by the group. Community gardens may be principal or accessory uses and may be located at grade (outdoors), on a roof or within a building. Community gardens do not include the raising or keeping of farm animals. Horticulture Nursery.

11-7-10: Other Use Category

This category includes uses that do not fit the other use categories.

  1. Drive-in or Drive-through Facility: Any use with drive-through windows or drive-through lanes or that otherwise offer service to the occupants of motor vehicles. Typical uses include drive-through restaurants, drive-through pharmacies, drive-in restaurants and drive-in cinemas. Automatic teller machine kiosks and similar drop-off or pick-up facilities that do not have on-site employees or amplified sound are not classified as drive-in or drive-through facilities if they meet the criteria for classification as an accessory use (see 11-9-1(B)).
  2. Cannabis Business Establishment: A cannabis cultivation center, craft grower, processing organization, infuser organization, dispensing organization, transporting organization, as defined herein.
    1. Cannabis Cultivation Center: A facility operated by an organization or business that is licensed by the Illinois department of agriculture to cultivate, process, transport and perform necessary activities to provide cannabis and cannabis-infused products to licensed cannabis business establishments, per the Cannabis Regulation and Tax Act, 410 ILCA 705/1 et. seq. and the Compassionate Use Of Medical Cannabis Program Act, 410 ILCA 130/1 et. seq. enacted by the State of Illinois, as may be amended from time to time, and regulations promulgated thereunder.
    2. Cannabis Dispensing Organization: A facility operated by an organization or business that is licensed by the Illinois department of financial and professional regulation to acquire cannabis from licensed cannabis business establishments for the purpose of selling or dispensing cannabis, cannabis infused products, cannabis seeds, paraphernalia or related supplies to purchasers or to qualified registered medical cannabis patients and caregivers, per the Cannabis Regulation and Tax Act, 410 ILCS 705/1 et. seq. and the compassionate use of Compassionate Use Of Medical Cannabis Program Act, 410/ILCS 130/1 et. seq. enacted by the State of Illinois, as may be amended from time to time, and regulations promulgated thereunder.
    3. Cannabis Craft Grower A facility operated by an organization or business that is licensed by the Illinois Department of Agriculture to cultivate, dry, cure and package cannabis and perform other necessary activities to make cannabis available for sale at a dispensing organization or use at a processing organization, per the Cannabis Regulation and Tax Act, 410 ILCS 705/1, et. seq., enacted by the State of Illinois, as it may be amended from time to time, and regulations promulgated thereunder.
    4. Cannabis Infuser A facility operated by an organization or business that is licensed by the Illinois Department of Agriculture to directly incorporate cannabis or cannabis concentrate into a product formulation to produce a cannabis-infused product, per the Cannabis Regulation and Tax Act, 410 ILCS 705/1, et. seq., enacted by the State of Illinois, as it may be amended from time-to-time, and regulations promulgated thereunder.
    5. Cannabis Processor A facility operated by an organization or business that is licensed by the Illinois Department of Agriculture to either extract constituent chemicals or compounds to produce cannabis concentrate or incorporate cannabis or cannabis concentrate into a product formulation to produce a cannabis product, per the Cannabis Regulation and Tax Act, 410 ILCS 705/1, et. seq., enacted by the State of Illinois, as it may be amended from time to time, and regulations promulgated thereunder.
    6. Cannabis Transporter An organization or business that is licensed by the Illinois Department of Agriculture to transport cannabis on behalf of a cannabis business establishment or a community college licensed under the Community College Cannabis Vocational Training Pilot Program, per the Cannabis Regulation and Tax Act 410 ILCS 705/1, et. seq., enacted by the State of Illinois as it may be amended from time-to-time, and regulations promulgated thereunder.
  3. Off-premise Outdoor Advertising Sign: A sign that directs attention to a business, commodity, service, or activity that is conducted, sold or offered elsewhere than upon the lot where the subject sign is located.
  4. Wireless Communication Facility: Towers, antennas, equipment, equipment buildings and other facilities used in the provision of wireless communication services. The following are wireless communication facility specific use types:
    1. Freestanding Towers: A structure intended to support equipment that is used to transmit and/or receive telecommunications signals, including monopoles and guyed and lattice construction steel structures.
    2. Building or Tower-Mounted Antennas: The physical device that is attached to a freestanding tower, building or other structure, through which electromagnetic, wireless telecommunications signals authorized by the Federal Communications Commission are transmitted or received.
HISTORY
Amended by Ord. 21-O-15 on 8/16/2021

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21-O-09

21-O-15

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