The B-P Business Park District is intended to provide for well-designed, attractive and innovative buildings housing nuisance-free, light industrial and compatible uses in an environment which is characterized by controlled ingress and egress to major streets and extensive setbacks and yard areas with imaginative landscaping, and which will provide screening and landscaping necessary to create a proper relationship with adjacent areas.

(Ord. No. 91-43, § VI, 7-16-91)

The following uses are permitted in a B-P Business Park district subject to the regulations contained in section 4.14 et seq.:

16.2.1. Blueprint and photostating;

16.2.2. Bookbinding;

16.2.3. Engraving, printing and publishing;

16.2.4. Lithographing;

16.2.5. Manufacturing of medical and dental equipment, drafting, optical and musical instruments; watches, clocks, toys and games; electrical or electronic apparatus and equipment from previously fabricated parts;

16.2.6. Warehouse storage of nonhazardous materials, products and equipment, wholly enclosed within the building;

16.2.7. Wholesale sales and warehouses;

16.2.8. Salesrooms and offices incidental to the permitted uses;

16.2.9. Accessory uses, subject to the provisions of article four;

16.2.10. Off-street parking and loading facilities as required or permitted by Article Nineteen; and

16.2.11 Self-storage or commercial storage facilities.

(Ord. No. 91-43, § VI, 7-16-91; Ord. No. 2010-064, § I(Exh. B), 12-7-10; Ord. No. 2025-100, § 2 (Exh. B), 9-2-25)

Upon recommendation by the planning and zoning commission, after public hearing on a petition pertaining thereto, in accordance with the requirements set forth for hearing in section 21.6, the corporate authorities of the village may, by special use permit, allow the following uses in the B-P Business Park district subject to the regulations contained in section 4.14 et seq.

16.3.1. Automobile, new car dealerships with new car showrooms, auto preparation and service bays, new car storage and similar accessory uses normally consistent with a new car dealership. Used car sales shall be permitted only in conjunction with a new car dealership, and shall be limited to a maximum of three square feet of outdoor display area for each one square foot of new car indoor display, sales showroom, excluding office space;

16.3.2. Automobile service stations for the retail sales and dispensing of fuels, lubricants, tires, batteries, accessories and supplies, including installation and normal services customarily incidental thereto. All activities except the retail sale and dispensing of fuel shall be conducted wholly within the building;

16.3.3. Any public building erected or leased by any department of a municipality, county, state or federal government;

16.3.4. Any buildings erected or leased by any public utility (light, gas, telephone, water, sewer) for use as a branch office and/or a distribution center;

16.3.5. Any production, processing, cleaning, services, testing, repair or storage of materials, goods, or products of a nonhazardous nature or FCC licensed commercial A.M. band transmitting facilities, which will not be injurious or offensive to the occupants of adjacent premises by reason of the emission or creation of noise, vibration, smoke, dust or other particulate matter, toxic or noxious materials, odors, fire or explosive hazards, glare or heat. Any uses permitted, including storage of any materials, products, goods, vehicles or any other equipment or raw or finished materials, must be conducted entirely and wholly within the building.

16.3.6. Sports complex.

16.3.7. Temporary use of a trailer or modular units to accommodate a financial institution with or without drive-through facilities and subject to the standards set forth in Article Eighteen.

16.3.8. Automobile repair service establishment.

16.3.9. Medical cannabis dispensing facility; subject to the regulations contained in Section 4.15 et seq.

16.3.10 Motor vehicle terminal, including motor vehicle service/repair, washing, parking and/or garage facilities, and similar accessory uses, subject to the following conditions of use:

a.

Motor vehicles are limited to automobiles, buses, and trucks including trailers, vans, boats and recreational and medical transport vehicles. Trailers containing cooling units (aka reefer units) are prohibited from operating said cooling units on the subject property.

b.

No storage of garbage waste hauling trucks or related containers shall be allowed except within a completely enclosed building.

c.

No storage of any hazardous waste, chemicals or materials of any type, other than those associated with motor vehicle maintenance and repair, shall be permitted on the property.

d.

No above or below ground fuel storage tanks shall be permitted on the property except as may otherwise be permitted by the board of trustees.

e.

No maintenance or repairs of vehicles including washing shall occur within the parking lot except for emergency repair services required to start and operate the vehicle. Otherwise, all work must be within a completely enclosed building.

f.

Vehicles, except for personal automobiles used by employees of the business, shall be parked outside the required front yard.

g.

Motor vehicle terminals are prohibited on all properties located within, or within but not subject to, the provisions of a regional planned unit developments or planned unit developments, i.e. Corporate Woods or Continental Executive Parke.

h.

For property located within 300 feet of a residential district, all storage of materials, freight or similar uses, except for motor vehicles in operable condition and trailers, shall be located within a completely enclosed building. It is recognized that freight may remain temporarily in a trailer while the trailer is parked on the property.

(Ord. No. 91-43, § VI, 7-16-91; Ord. No. 98-33, § I, 5-19-98; Ord. No. 2004-112, § XIII, 12-7-04; Ord. No. 2010-064, § I(Exh. B), 12-7-10; Ord. No. 2012-036, § 1(Exh. A), 6-19-12; Ord. No. 2014-042, § II(Exh. B), 11-18-14; Ord. No. 2025-100, § 2 (Exh. B), 9-2-25)

Every lot or tract of land upon which a building is erected or maintained shall have:

16.4.1. An area of not less than 160,000 square feet;

16.4.2. A width of not less than 200 feet; and

16.4.3. A ratio of building coverage of not more than 30 percent of the total site area for the principal building or buildings.

16.5.1. No building hereinafter erected shall exceed two stories, nor shall it exceed 45 feet in height, except as provided in Article Four; provided, however, any FCC licensed commercial A.M. band transmitting facility granted a special use permit, may have one radio broadcasting tower located on the premises granted a special use permit, such tower not to exceed 165 feet [in] height.

16.5.2. Chimneys and other rooftop structures:

16.5.2.1. No chimney, cooling tower, mechanical appurtenances, or other rooftop structure shall extend above the maximum permitted building height of the district;

16.5.2.2. All cooling towers, mechanical equipment or appurtenances, vents, intakes or stacks, or other rooftop structures shall be screened from view on all sides of the building by a parapet wall, solid sight screen or other means which shall completely conceal the rooftop structures from view. A chimney constructed of the same masonry as the exterior of the building is excepted, but a chimney of any other material must be screened. The zoning administrator shall determine the need for sight screens and the screens shall comply with all building code requirements for fire rating, wind loads and structural integrity.

Except as provided in Article Four, no building shall be erected or enlarged and no use shall be maintained, unless the following yards are provided:

16.6.1. A front yard on a public right-of-way shall be provided according to the following street designation, as contained in the Village of Vernon Hills Official Map:

Highway .....60 feet

Major street .....60 feet

Collector street .....40 feet

Local street .....30 feet

16.6.2. A side yard of not less than 30 feet;

16.6.3. A rear yard of not less than 40 feet;

16.6.4. Where any building exceeds 35 feet in height, the yard requirements shall be increased one foot for each foot of building height over 35 feet;

16.6.5. Where any front yard abuts a public right-of-way, a landscaped buffer strip of not less than 25 feet in depth along the lot line abutting that public right-of-way shall be provided and maintained as part of the required yard, except that a 30-foot landscaped buffer strip shall be provided along a local street. Where the building is set back more than the required 30 feet but less than 40 feet from a local street, the landscaped buffer shall continue to the building. Where the building is set back more than 40 feet, there shall be a landscaped buffer of 40 feet along the local street;

16.6.6. Where any side or rear yard abuts a residential district, a 25-foot-wide buffer strip, improved with earth berms and full landscaping, shall be provided and maintained along the lot lines abutting such residential districts. The height of the berms shall be from four to eight feet in height, depending on the finished grades of the abutting residential property in relationship to the proposed building height and finished grades of the new development. The berm height and the entire buffer strip landscaping plan is subject to approval by the president and board of trustees.

16.7.1. Signs shall be in accordance with the provisions of the Vernon Hills Sign Control Ordinance, as amended[, Chapter 19 of the Village Code].

16.7.2. All ingress and egress systems for permitted or special uses within the B-P Business Park District shall intersect a major arterial thoroughfare or a major collector street, each as designed and designated in the official map of the village or pertinent village ordinance; and, as part of such ingress and egress systems, there shall be provided a clearly marked fire/emergency lane, not less than 15 feet in width, as close to any structure as might be possible, and then plainly marked so as to prohibit parking thereon or obstruction thereof in any way.

16.7.3. Refuse or trash collection areas shall be provided at the rear of each structure or positioned in or near the common parking lot or a driveway, as recommended by the planning and zoning commission; and shall be completely screened from view on all sides, with solid fencing of either wood or masonry construction, to a height of seven feet; and shall include [a] concrete pad and an operable door of adequate width. Each such refuse area shall be provided with closed and covered trash containers of a type and size as required by village ordinances pertaining thereto. It shall be the responsibility, either separate or joint, of the owner and/or manager of the structure to ensure that the refuse areas are kept in a neat and well-ordered manner at all times. The owner and/or manager of the structure shall ensure that any spillover at the time of refuse removal is promptly and properly cleaned up, and that refuse is removed on a regular basis, according to village ordinances pertaining thereto.

16.7.4. Off-street parking and loading facilities shall be provided as required in Article Nineteen.

16.7.5. Trucks and semitrailers shall not be parked or stored out-of-doors overnight, in the parking lot or on the premises, except within an enclosed loading dock, or garage, or within a walled and gated sight screen enclosure, open to the sky, constructed of the same masonry exterior materials as the principal building and equal in height to the height of the first floor of the principal building. However, temporary parking overnight, not to exceed a 48-hour time period, may be permitted for delivery vehicles which arrive after normal business hours.

16.7.6. There shall be no outdoor storage of any materials of any kind, except as provided in section 16.7.5, nor shall there be any sale of any goods or services out-of-doors, except by special permission of the president and board of trustees.

(Ord. No. 91-43, § VI, 7-16-91)