Wood Dale City Zoning Code
ARTICLE I
TITLE, PURPOSE AND DEFINITIONS
Sec. 17.101. Introduction.
A. Community Character: Wood Dale is located in the Northeastern portion of DuPage County just west of O’Hare Airport. Like many communities in the area, Wood Dale is largely built out and has a mix of residential, commercial and industrial development. Commercial development is focused along the Irving Park Road corridor and industrial uses are located in the Northern part of the City. The large industrial area can be mainly attributed to the City’s access to an excellent transportation system and proximity to regional highways, including I-390, Illinois 53, Illinois 83, I-290, I-294, I-355, and I-90, and the Metra commuter rail service to downtown Chicago.
As Wood Dale continues to develop and redevelop, residents will face new issues related to community character. These issues will range from small infill development in the older parts of the City to large scale redevelopments related to strong commercial and industrial markets. These market strengths, especially for logistics uses, have been and will continue to be a function of the City’s proximity to O’Hare Airport. As this development and redevelopment occurs, the challenge before Wood Dale will be to maintain residential quality of life while capitalizing on the economic development opportunities created by its location in the Chicago metropolitan region and maintaining the industrial area as a modern and attractive business park.
Wood Dale’s diversity of buildings and land uses creates distinctive characters depending where one looks. Residential, commercial, and industrial developments are generally separated from one another with points of transition between them. This diversity of uses and the opportunity to minimize their impact on one another is fundamental to the City’s character. In addition, diversity within each of the land use types (residential, commercial, and industrial) is part of the City’s character and a strong asset. Diversity reduces the monotony often associated with contemporary development practices and is a key element of Wood Dale’s character and diverse tax base.
“Community character” is a means of organizing the physical, social, and economic factors that make up a community so that they can be viewed as a totality rather than as separate and independent facts. It is a framework that not only defines a type of land use, but also defines their relationships and functions. For example, transportation impacts are associated with each land use type. In regulating land uses in each area, development codes must understand and consider the consequences of the choices.
No single way of looking at or regulating character is primary or all encompassing. The most important character elements may differ depending on use type, location, or a variety of other factors. Community character also is defined by scale of developments and how the natural environment is incorporated. Lastly, scale (the relationship between humans and buildings and between two or more buildings) must be considered in managing community character.
B. The Need for This Chapter: The land use and improvement regulations, requirements and procedures described in this Chapter for Wood Dale serve as a guide for preserving and perpetuating the community character of Wood Dale as it continues to develop. The primary purpose of this Chapter is not merely to provide minimum regulations necessary to facilitate safe and orderly growth, but to implement the goals, objectives and policies of the City of Wood Dale Comprehensive Plan. This will help to ensure that orderly growth, in the context of the existing neighborhoods, increases collective security, advances city identity, promotes civic awareness and responsibility, and enhances the quality of life for the entire city. This Chapter also serves to support the greatest possible economic and social benefits for all Wood Dale residents, merchants and visitors.
To these ends, this Chapter, related maps, illustrations and diagrams have been prepared with due consideration of future growth. The goal is to promote a comfortable neighborhood scale for residential areas. Likewise, these regulations integrate a balanced transportation system based on pedestrian, and automobile use with consideration of future transit opportunities and technological advancements. To advance those objectives, this Chapter also supports the adequate provision of water and sewer infrastructure, schools, parks, and other public necessities; and, for the preservation and enhancement of the natural environment.
C. General Development Objectives: The objective of this Chapter is to carry out and achieve the goals and objectives of the City of Wood Dale Comprehensive Plan. The Comprehensive Plan provides a clear vision of the community’s expectations and aspirations, and strategies for community character and orderly development in the City and its environs. (Ord. O-22-017, 5-19-2022)
Sec. 17.102. Purpose And Applicability.
A. Title And Jurisdiction: This Chapter shall be referred to and cited as the UNIFIED DEVELOPMENT ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF WOOD DALE and shall include the full scope of authority set forth in Division 13 of the Illinois Municipal Code, 65 ILCS 5/11-13-1 et seq., as the same may be amended from time to time, and apply to the development and improvement of land and the uses of structures, land and water within the corporate limits of the City of Wood Dale, and to the subdivision of land and the public improvements placed thereon in and within one and one-half (1.5) miles of the corporate limits of the City of Wood Dale.
B. Purpose and Intent: This Chapter is adopted for the following purposes:
1. To implement the goals, objectives and policies of the City of Wood Dale Comprehensive Plan;
2. To promote the public health, safety, comfort and general welfare of the people;
3. To divide the City into zones or districts regulating and restricting therein the location and building use, structures and land for residential, business, manufacturing and other specified purposes;
4. To protect the character and stability of the residential, business, and manufacturing areas within the City and to promote the orderly and beneficial development of such areas;
5. To provide adequate light, air, privacy and convenience of access to property;
6. To regulate the intensity of use of lot areas, and determine the area of open spaces surrounding buildings, necessary to provide adequate light and air and to protect the public health;
7. To establish building lines and the location of buildings designed for residential, business, and manufacturing or other uses within such areas;
8. To exclude uses, buildings or structures incompatible with the character of development or intended uses within specified zoning districts;
9. To limit congestion in the public streets and protect the public health, safety, convenience and general welfare by providing for the off street parking of motor vehicles and the loading of commercial vehicles;
10. To protect against fire, explosion, noxious fumes, and other hazards in the interest of the public health, safety, comfort and general welfare;
11. To preserve and enhance the taxable value of land and buildings throughout the City;
12. To provide for the elimination of nonconforming uses of land, buildings and structures that may adversely affect the character and value of desirable development in the City;
13. To define and limit the powers and duties of the administrative officers and bodies provided herein;
14. To enhance aesthetic values within the City;
15. To encourage the use of alternative and renewable energy sources;
16. To protect the character and the social and economic stability of all parts of the City by facilitating orderly and beneficial development of the community through appropriate growth management techniques;
17. To protect environmentally critical areas and areas premature for development;
18. To guide development in order to provide adequate and efficient public facilities including but not limited to transportation, water, sewerage, schools, parks, playgrounds, recreation, and other public facilities;
19. To provide the most beneficial relationship between the uses of land and buildings and the circulation of traffic throughout the City and to provide for the proper location and width of streets and building lines;
20. To support pedestrian movements appropriate to the various uses of land and buildings;
21. To establish sound standards of design and procedures for subdivision of property to further the orderly layout and use of land and to ensure proper legal descriptions and documenting of subdivided land;
22. To ensure that public facilities and services are available concurrent with development and will have a sufficient capacity to serve the proposed subdivision or development and that the community will be required to bear no more than its fair share of the cost of providing the facilities and services through requiring developers and subdividers to pay fees, furnish land, or establish mitigation measures to ensure that the development or subdivision provides its fair share of capital facility needs generated by the development or subdivision;
23. To preserve the natural beauty, character, and topography in the City and to ensure appropriate and sustainable development with regard to these natural features;
24. To prevent the pollution of air, streams, and other surface waters; to assure the adequacy of drainage facilities; to safeguard the water table, and to encourage the wise use and management of natural resources throughout the City in order to preserve the integrity, stability, and beauty of the community and the value of land;
25. To provide for open space through the most efficient design and layout of the land;
26. To raise the level of community expectations for the quality of its environment that brings value to the community, foster the attractiveness and functional utility of the community as a place to live and work;
27. To prescribe penalties for the violation of and methods for the enforcement of the provisions of this Chapter or any amendment thereto;
28. To protect human life and property from the hazards of flooding; and
29. To maintain property values and a stable tax base, as well as lessen the burden on the taxpayer for flood control efforts that can occur from unregulated development in or near areas prone to flooding.
C. Separability: In accordance with the following, it is hereby declared that the several provisions of this Chapter are separate:
1. If any court of competent jurisdiction determines any provision of this Chapter to be invalid, such determination shall not affect any other provision of this Chapter, not specifically included in the court’s judgment order.
2. If any court of competent jurisdiction determines any provision of this Chapter to be invalid as applied to a particular lot, parcel, building, structure or use, such determination shall not affect the application of such provision to any other lot, parcel, building, structure or use not specifically included in the court’s judgment order.
D. Repeal Of Conflicting Ordinances: All prior ordinances or parts of ordinances of the City of Wood Dale in conflict with this Chapter are hereby repealed.
E. Publication And Effective Date: By authority of the City Manager and City Council, this Chapter shall be printed in pamphlet form and copies thereof shall be available at the Office of the City Clerk. This Chapter shall be in full force from and after its passage, approval and publication in the manner provided by law.
F. Illustrations: The illustrations used in this Chapter are not drawn to scale and are intended only to graphically represent the requirements and concepts contained herein, and are not intended, nor should they be construed, to represent every situation or circumstance which may exist in the City of Wood Dale. When there is a conflict between the text of this Chapter and an illustration herein, the text shall prevail.
G. Zoning Map: The location and boundaries of the districts established by this Chapter are indicated upon the map entitled, “official zoning map, City of Wood Dale, Illinois”, as amended from time to time, which, together with all explanatory matter thereon, is hereby adopted by reference and declared to be a part of this Chapter. The official zoning map shall be on file in the Office of the City Clerk and shall be the final authority as to the current zoning status of land and buildings, subject to such authorized amendments, which may be in effect.
H. Official Map: The location of all existing and future streets, highways, parks, public grounds and public ways, including, but not limited to, schools, bicycle trails, municipal parking areas, public works garages and facilities, wastewater treatment plants, wells and storage reservoirs, laid out, adopted and established by this Chapter are indicated upon the map entitled “official map of the City of Wood Dale”, which together with all explanatory matter thereon, is hereby adopted by reference and declared to be a part of this Chapter. The official map shall be on file in the Office of the City Clerk. All annexation plats and subdivision plats which may hereafter be approved by the mayor and city council of the City of Wood Dale and recorded in the office of the recorder of deeds of DuPage County shall be, and such annexation and subdivision plats are hereby, designated a part of the official map of the City of Wood Dale.
I. Annexed Land: All territory which may hereafter be annexed to the City of Wood Dale, shall be classified R-1 district until otherwise classified by amendment as provided herein. In the event owners requesting annexation of their property desire a classification other than R-1 district, a petition shall be submitted for the desired zoning classification simultaneously with the petition for annexation. Upon annexation of property containing existing structures, the property shall comply with Sections 7.103, 7.301, and 7.402 of The Wood Dale Municipal Code (unless otherwise directed by action of the City Council). In addition, any fees due pursuant to any public or private recapture agreement shall be paid at the time of permit issuance for said connection to the City’s water and/or sanitary sewer system.
J. Boundary Lines: In the event that uncertainties exist with respect to the intended boundaries of the various districts as shown on the zoning map, the following rules shall apply:
1. District boundaries shall be set as the centerlines of the streets, alleys, public ways and railroad rights of way, unless otherwise indicated. Such streets, alleys, public ways and railroad rights of way shall be deemed to be in the same zoning district as the immediately abutting property. In addition, boundaries indicated as approximately following the centerlines of streams, rivers, canals, lakes, or other bodies of water shall be construed to follow such centerlines.
2. Where the district boundaries do not coincide with the location of streets or alleys, but do coincide with lot lines, such lot lines shall be construed to be the boundary of such district.
3. Where the district boundaries do not coincide with the location of streets, alleys, or lot lines, the district boundary shall be determined by the use of the scale shown on the zoning map.
4. When a lot held in one ownership on the effective date of this Chapter is divided by a district boundary line, the entire lot shall be construed to be within the more restrictive district.
5. Streets, alleys, public ways or railroad rights-of-way which are shown on the zoning map and which have been vacated, or which may be vacated, shall be in the same district as the land abutting both sides of the vacated right of way. If land abutting each side of the vacated right-of-way is indifferent districts before being vacated, the centerline of the vacated right-of-way shall be the district boundary line of the respective zoning districts on either side of the vacated right of way.
K. Interpretation:
1. In their interpretation and application, the provisions of this Chapter shall be held to be the minimum requirements for the promotion of the public health, safety and welfare.
2. Where the conditions imposed by any provision of this Chapter upon the use of land or buildings or upon the bulk of buildings are either more restrictive or less restrictive than comparable conditions imposed by any other provisions of this Code or of any other law, ordinance, resolution, rule or regulations of any kind, the regulations which are more restrictive (or which impose higher standards or requirements) shall govern.
3. Nothing in this Chapter shall be deemed to be a consent, license or permit to use any property, to locate, construct, or maintain any building, structure or facility, or to carry on any business, industry, occupation or trade, unless such actions are in keeping with the regulations of this Chapter.
L. Disclosure By Trustee Of Land Trust: Whenever any trustee of a land trust or any beneficiary or beneficiaries of a land trust make application to the City of Wood Dale pursuant to the provisions of this Chapter the application must identify each beneficiary of the land trust by name and address and define the beneficiaries interest in the subject property. All applications shall be verified by the applicant in its capacity as trustee, or by the beneficiary as the beneficial owner of an interest in the land trust.
M. Private Agreements: This Chapter is not intended to abrogate any easement, covenant, or other private agreement; provided, that where the regulations of this Chapter are more restrictive or impose higher standards or requirements than easement, covenants, or other private agreements, the requirements of this Chapter shall be controlling. (Ord. O-22-017, 5-19-2022)
Sec. 17.103. Rules And Definitions.
A. Use of Definitions: In the assembly of this Chapter, the definitions contained in this article shall be observed and applied, except when the context clearly indicates otherwise.
B. Rules: In the construction of this Chapter, the rules contained in this article shall be observed and applied, except when the context clearly indicates otherwise.
1. Words used in the present tense shall include the future; and words used in the singular number shall include the plural number, and the plural, the singular.
2. The words “shall” and “will” are mandatory and not discretionary.
3. The word “may” is permissive.
4. The word “lot” shall include the words “plot”, “piece”, and “parcel”.
5. Unless otherwise specified, all distances shall be measured horizontally.
6. Whenever a word or term defined hereinafter appears in the text of this chapter, its meaning shall be construed as set forth in the definition thereof.
7. The masculine gender shall include the feminine and neuter.
8. All measured distances shall be expressed in feet and shall be calculated to the nearest tenth (0.10) of a foot.
9. The word “person” shall include the words “association”, “corporation”, “estate”, “governmental agency”, “individual”, “joint venture”, “partnership”, “venture”, or any other legal entity.
10. The word “Building” shall include the word “Structure”. All “Buildings” are “Structures”, but not all “Structures” are “Buildings”.
11. The phrase “used for” shall include the phrases “arranged for”, “designed for”, “intended for”, “maintained for”, and “occupied for”.
C. Definitions: The following words and terms when used in the interpretation and administration of this chapter shall have the meaning set forth herein except where otherwise specifically indicated. Words and terms not defined herein shall be defined as specified in the latest published edition of “Webster’s New Collegiate Dictionary”.
ABUTTING: | See ADJACENT. |
ACCESSORY STRUCTURE: | A structure incidental and auxiliary to the principal structure on the same zoning lot as a principal structure. When the wall of an accessory structure is a part of or joined to the wall of the principal structure such accessory structure shall be construed as a part of the principal structure. An accessory structure shall be located on the same zoning lot as the principal building served, except for accessory off street parking facilities permitted to locate on a different Zoning Lot. |
ACCESSORY USE: | A use incidental and auxiliary to the principal use of the same premises on with such principal use is located. An accessory use shall be located on the same zoning lot as the principal building or principal use served except for accessory off street parking facilities permitted to locate on a different Zoning Lot. |
ADDITION: | Any structural alteration that changes the shape of or increases the floor area of a building. |
ADJACENT: | Touching, abutting, lying immediately next to, and/or sharing a common wall or lot line. |
ADULT REGULATED USE: | As defined in Chapter 4 of this Code. |
ALL WEATHER, DUST FREE SURFACE: | A hard surface, dust free material capable, during ordinary use, of withstanding without substantial deterioration, normal weather conditions. Gravel and rock do not meet the definition of an all-weather, dust free surface. |
ALLEY: | A public or private way primarily designed to serve as a secondary means of access to those parcels whose principal frontage is on a public street.  |
ALTERATION: | Any change, or replacement of the supporting members of a building such as bearing walls, partitions, columns, beams or girders, or a substantial change in the roof or in the exterior walls. |
AMUSEMENT ARCADE: | A commercial establishment that has or maintains eight (8) or more amusement devices on the premises. |
ANIMAL HOSPITAL: | A place where animals are given medical or surgical treatment and the boarding of animals is limited to short term care incidental to the hospital use. Boarding of animals is not part of this use. |
ANIMAL POUND / SHELTER: | A building, structure or facility operated, owned, maintained, or used by a duly incorporated humane society, animal welfare society or other not for profit organization whose purpose is to provide for and promote the welfare, protection and humane treatment of animals, including animals impounded for rabies observation. |
ANTENNA: | An arrangement of wires, metal rods, parabolic or concave dishes, or similar materials used for the transmission and/or reception of electromagnetic waves. |
ANTENNA HEIGHT: | The vertical distance measured from the base of the antenna support structure at grade to the highest point of the antenna support structure, even if said highest point is an antenna. Measurement of tower height shall include antennas, base pad, and other appurtenances and shall be measured from the grade of the site. If the antenna support structure is on a sloped grade, then the average between the highest and lowest grades shall be used in calculating the antenna height. |
ANTENNA TOWER: | Any structure designed for the purpose of mounting an antenna. |
APPEAL: | A request for relief from a decision of the Development Administrator. |
APPLICANT: | Any person who files an application for zoning amendment, special use, variation, subdivision approval, stormwater management permit, or appeal. |
ARBOR: | See TRELLIS. |
ARCHITECTURAL ENTRANCE STRUCTURE: | A structure located at the entrance to a unified development. |
ARENA: | See STADIUM. |
ARTS STUDIO: | Studio for professional work or teaching of any form of fine arts, such as photography, music, drama, and dance. |
AUDITORIUM: | A room, a hall or building made a part of a church, theater, school, recreation building, or other building assigned to the gathering of people as an audience to hear lectures, plays, and other presentations. |
AUTOMATED TELLER MACHINE (ATM): | An automated device that performs banking or financial functions. |
AUTOMATIC AMUSEMENT DEVICE: | As defined in Chapter 4 of this Code. |
AUTOMOBILE WRECKING YARD: | See WRECKING YARD, MOTOR VEHICLE. |
AWNING: | A fabric covering stretched over a rigid frame projecting from and supported entirely by the elevation of a building and designed and intended to provide overhead weather protection over a window, walk, door or the like. Awnings may be fixed or retractable, meaning they can be retracted, folded, or collapsed against the face of the supporting building. |
BAKERY / COFFEE SHOP: | An establishment that sells beverages and baked products for consumption on or off-site. |
BALCONY: | An elevated platform open to the elements, not supported by the ground and projecting from an upper story and enclosed entirely by a railing. |
BANKS OR FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS: | A financial institution that is open to the public and engaged in deposit banking, and that performs closely related functions such as loan-making, investments, and fiduciary activities. |
BANQUET HALL: | An establishment which is rented by individuals or groups to accommodate private functions including, but not limited to, banquets, weddings, and other similar events. Such a use may or may not include: 1) kitchen facilities 2) the sale of alcoholic beverages for on-premises consumption during scheduled events. |
BAR: | A room(s) or a counter accessory to the principal use of the building or tenant space in the building where alcoholic beverages are served for consumption on the premises. |
BASEMENT: | That portion of a building that is partly or completely below grade. |
BAY WINDOW: | A window projecting beyond the wall line of the building and not supported by a foundation. |
BED AND BREAKFAST: | A transient lodging establishment, generally a single-family dwelling which is the owner’s personal residence or a detached guesthouse, providing overnight or otherwise temporary lodging of the general public for compensation. |
BEDROOM: | Any room designed, intended, or used principally for sleeping purposes, including a study or a den. |
BLOCK: | A tract of land bounded by streets, or by a combination of streets and public parks, cemeteries, railroad right-of-way, shorelines of waterways, Municipal, Township and County boundary lines.  |
BOARD OF APPEALS: | Community Development Commission of the City. |
BODY SHOP, MOTOR VEHICLE: | See MOTOR VEHICLE REPAIR FACILITY. |
BOW WINDOW: | See BAY WINDOW. |
BREWPUB: | A type of restaurant that manufactures fermented malt beverages on premises for either consumption on premises or sold directly to the consumer in hand capped or sealed containers. |
BUILD-TO LINE: | An alignment established a certain distance from the front lot line to a line along which the building shall be built. |
BUILDING: | A roofed structure designed or intended for the enclosure, shelter or protection of persons, animals or other property. All forms of vehicles, even if immobilized, are excluded from this definition. |
BUILDING CODE: | Chapter 12 of this Code. |
BUILDING COVERAGE: | The gross area of a zoning lot occupied by the ground floor of all principal building(s) and accessory structures which are under roof. |
BUILDING, DETACHED: | A building surrounded by open space on the same zoning lot. |
BUILDING LINE: | A line parallel to adjacent property lines at a specified distance from said property lines establishing the minimum open space to be provided between building(s) and an adjacent lot line. Also known as “building setback line” or “setback line”.  |
BUILDING OFFICIAL: | As defined in Chapter 12 of this Code. |
BUILDING PERMIT: | A permit issued by the Building Official of the City for the construction, alteration, removal, or demolition of a building or structure within the City. |
BUILDING, PRINCIPAL: | A building wherein the primary or predominant use of the zoning lot occurs. |
BULK: | The term used to describe the size and setbacks of buildings and the location of same with respect to the lot on which situated of buildings and other structures as to size, height, coverage, shape, location of exterior walls in relation to lot lines, to the centerline of streets, to other walls of the same building, and to all open spaces relating to the building or structure. |
BUSINESS: | As defined in Chapter 4 of this Code, An occupation, employment or enterprise which occupies time, attention, labor and materials in order to conduct commercial activities. |
CALIPER: | The diameter of a tree measured six inches above finished grade. |
CANNABIS: | Shall have the same definition as “cannabis” set forth in Section 1-10 of the Cannabis Regulation and Tax Act, as amended. |
CANNABIS BUSINESS ESTABLISHMENT: | Means a “cannabis business establishment,” “infuser organization,” or “infuser”, as defined in Section 1-10 of the Cannabis Regulation and Tax Act, as amended, and such other cannabis business establishments authorized under the Act, as amended. |
CANNABIS CRAFT GROWER: | Means “craft grower” as defined in Section 1-10 of the Cannabis Regulation and Tax Act, as amended. |
CANNABIS DISPENSARY, MEDICAL: | A business regulated and authorized by the State of Illinois to sell legal quantities of cannabis derived products, including marijuana, to patients who are also authorized by the State of Illinois to purchase cannabis. |
CANNABIS DISPENSARY, RECREATIONAL: | 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, (P.A. 101-0027), as it may be amended from time-to-time, and regulations promulgated thereunder. |
CANNABIS INFUSER: | Means “infuser organization” or “infuser” as defined in Section 1-10 of the Cannabis Regulation and Tax Act, as amended. |
CANNABIS PROCESSER: | Means “processing organization” or “processer” as defined in Section 1-10 of the Cannabis Regulation and Tax Act, as amended. |
CANNABIS TRANSPORTER: | Means “transporting organization” or “transporter” as defined in Section 1-10 of the Cannabis Regulation and Tax Act, as amended. |
CAR WASH: | A structure, or portion thereof, containing facilities for washing automobiles, and may utilize production line methods using a conveyor, blower, steam cleaning device; or other mechanical devices, and may include detailing services. |
CARPORT: | A permanent, structure, open on at least two sides, designed or used for the storage and shelter of motor vehicles. |
CEMETERY: | Land used for the burial of the dead and dedicated for cemetery purposes including but not limited to columbaria, mausoleums, necessary sales, and maintenance facilities. |
CITY: | The City of Wood Dale, an Illinois municipal corporation. |
CLUSTER: | A collection of items, most commonly associated with plant material, installed as a clump or group as opposed to being separated from one another. |
COLLEGE/ UNIVERSITY: | A public or private institution of higher education including dormitories, fraternities, sororities, and other accessory buildings necessary for operation, but not including business colleges or trade schools when operated for profit. |
COMMERCIAL USE: | An activity carried out for monetary gain. |
COMMUNITY RESIDENCE: | A single dwelling unit occupied on a relatively permanent basis in a communal living environment by unrelated persons with disabilities, which may include paid professional support staff provided by a sponsoring agency, either living with the residents on a continuous basis or present whenever residents with disabilities are present. Community residences that are licensed by the State of Illinois and unlicensed community residences are subject to the use regulations set forth in the Permitted Use Table. |
COMPREHENSIVE PLAN: | The adopted official statement of a legislative body of a local government that sets forth (in words, maps, illustrations and/or tables) goals, policies and guidelines intended to direct the present and future physical, social and economic development that occurs within its planning jurisdiction and that includes a unified physical design for the public and private development of land and water. |
CONDITIONAL LETTER OF MAP AMENDMENT (CLOMA): | A Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) comment letter on a development proposed to be located in, and affecting only that portion of, the area of floodplain outside the regulatory floodway and having no impact on the existing regulatory floodway or base flood elevations. |
CONDITIONAL LETTER OF MAP REVISION (CLOMR): | A letter that indicates that Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) will revise base flood elevations, flood insurance rate zones, flood boundaries, or floodways as shown on an effective Flood Insurance Rate Map (FIRM) or Flood Boundary and Floodway Map (FBFM), after the record drawings are submitted and approved. |
CONDOMINIUM: | An estate in real property consisting of an individual interest in common with other purchasers in a portion of real property, together with a separate interest in space in a building and/or separate interest in other portions of such real property. |
CONIFEROUS: | Any of numerous, chiefly evergreen trees or shrubs of the class Coniferinae (or group Coniferales), including the pine, fir, spruce, and other cone-bearing trees and shrubs. |
CONSTRUCTION TRAILER: | A non permanent structure located on the site of a development or construction project to be used for management of the development or construction project and located on the site for a time concurrent with the associated construction. |
CONTRACTORS OFFICE: | Office for uses that provides off site services for construction, maintenance and repairs of buildings, structures, equipment or other services. This use may also include storage of equipment and materials. |
CONVENT: | A building or group of buildings designed to provide group housing for persons under religious vows or orders. |
COVENANT: | A private or public written agreement relating to the use of, restriction of, interest in, or right to, real property and recorded with the DuPage County Recorder of Deeds against the title to the real property to which it applies. |
CUL-DE-SAC: | A short street having one end open to traffic and being terminated at the other end by a vehicular turnaround. |
DAYCARE CENTER: | Any childcare facility which regularly provides daycare for less than twenty four (24) hours per day for more than eight (8) children in a family home, or more than three (3) children in a facility other than a family home, including senior citizen buildings as defined by 225 Illinois Compiled Statutes 10/2.09 and licensed by the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services. |
DAYCARE HOME: | A residence licensed by the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services for the care of at least three (3) but not more than twelve (12) children for less than twenty four (24) hours per day. The maximum number of children permitted includes the family’s natural, foster or adopted children and all other persons under the age of twelve (12). The term does not include residences or facilities which receive only children from a single household. |
DECIDUOUS: | Tree or other plant that sheds all of its leaves according to a genetically scheduled cycle as impacted by climate factors, usually during the cold season in temperate zones. |
DECK: | A level, unenclosed platform serving as a floor and located above the finished grade, and usually directly adjoining or attached to a building.  |
DEVELOPMENT: | Any man-made change, other than maintenance of existing structures, paved areas or utilities, to improved or unimproved real estate, including, without limitation, the construction or installation of new, or enlargement of existing structures, streets, or utilities; dredging, filling, drilling, mining, grading, paving, or excavating operations; and open storage of materials. |
DEVELOPMENT ADMINISTRATOR: | The individual designated by the City Manager to enforce this chapter, or their designee. |
DEVELOPMENT PLAN: | A preliminary or final plan meeting the requirements of this chapter for the development of a planned unit development. |
DIAMETER AT BREAST HEIGHT (dbh): | The diameter of a standing tree measured at 4.5 feet above the ground. This measurement applies to mature trees. |
DISABILITY: | A personal condition which is: 1) attributed to mental, intellectual, or physical impairment or a combination of mental, intellectual, or physical impairments; 2) likely to continue for a significant amount of time or indefinitely; and 3) results in functional limitation in three (3) or more of the following areas of major life activities: self-care; receptive or expressive language; learning; mobility; self-direction; capacity for independent living; economic self-sufficiency; and reflects the person’s need for a combination and sequence of special interdisciplinary or generic care treatment, or other service of life long or extended duration, but is not the result of a communicable disease or substance abuse or alcohol abuse. |
DISTRICT, ZONING: | A section of the corporate areas of the City of Wood Dale within which the regulations governing the use of land are uniform. |
DOG RUN: | An enclosed outdoor area intended for the exercising and/or containment of dogs or other animals. |
DRIPLINE: | The zone lying between the trunk of a tree or shrub and the extreme outer edge of the leaf and branch structure, i.e., the diameter of the leaf and branch structure extended vertically down to the soil surface.  |
DRIVE-THRU: | A facility or establishment designed, intended or used for transaction of business with customers in automobiles and may be the principal or an auxiliary function of the business. A drive-up window service facility does not include mail or parcel collection boxes. |
DRIVEWAY: | A private roadway providing vehicular access from a street or alley to adjacent property. |
DRIVEWAY APRON: | The portion of a driveway located in the right-of-way. |
DWELLING: | A building or portion thereof designed or used exclusively for residential occupancy, but not including hotels, motels or lodging houses. |
DWELLING, ACCESSORY: | A room or suite of rooms arranged, designed, used and intended for use as living quarters for a single household, including sleeping, cooking, eating and sanitation facilities, and may be located in a freestanding accessory structure and having its own exterior entrance. |
DWELLING, APARTMENT: | See DWELLING, MULTI-UNIT. |
DWELLING, ATTACHED SINGLE-UNIT: | A building consisting of dwelling units each of which is attached by common vertical wall to at least one other dwelling unit with each dwelling unit having a separate exterior entrance and occupying the ground, including, but not limited to, the following: “townhouse”, “row house”, “duplex”, “fourplex”, “threeplex”. |
DWELLING, DETACHED SINGLE-UNIT: | A freestanding building containing one dwelling unit. |
DWELLING, DUPLEX: | A building containing two (2) dwelling units where one dwelling unit is joined with the other dwelling unit on one side by a common wall. No dwelling unit or portion thereof within a duplex dwelling shall be located above or below another dwelling unit. Each dwelling unit shall have an exterior located on the ground floor. |
DWELLING, MULTI-UNIT: | A building, or portion thereof, consisting of three (3) or more dwelling units with varying arrangements of entrances and party walls and one or more of the dwelling units do not occupy the ground, including, but not limited to, the following: “apartment”, “condominium”, “cooperative”, “manor home”, “coach house”, “three-flat”, and “six-flat”. Includes independent senior living. |
DWELLING, TWO-UNIT: | A building consisting of two (2) dwelling units where one dwelling unit is located on the first floor and the second dwelling unit is located on the second floor and each dwelling may or may not have a separate exterior entrance. |
DWELLING UNIT: | One or more rooms, including at least one complete permanently installed bathroom and not more than one complete kitchen facility arranged, designed, or used as living quarters for not more than one family. Each dwelling unit shall have an independent entrance, cooking, sleeping and sanitary facilities. |
EASEMENT: | A grant by a property owner for the use of a strip or parcel of his land by the general public, a corporation, or a certain person(s) for a specific purpose(s). |
EATING AND DRINKING ESTABLISHMENT: | See RESTAURANT. |
EAVE: | The projecting lower edges of a roof, overhanging the wall of a building. |
EDUCATION FACILITY: | See SCHOOL, COMMERCIAL/TRADE SCHOOL. |
ELECTRIC VEHICLE: | Any vehicle that is licensed and registered on public and private highways, roads, and streets that contains original, stock equipment from the vehicle manufacturer to accept charging from an electric vehicle charging station and that operates, either partially or exclusively, on electrical energy from the grid, or an off-board source, that is stored on-board via a battery for motive purpose. "Electric vehicle" includes: (1) a battery powered electric vehicle operated solely by electricity, (2) a plug-in hybrid electric vehicle that operates on electricity and gasoline and has a battery that can be recharged from an external source, (3) electric scooters or motorcycles. |
ELECTRIC VEHICLE CHARGING STATION: | An electrical component assembly or cluster of component assemblies designed specifically to charge batteries located within electric vehicles. The charging station may also contain appurtenances for the purposes of customer payment. |
ENTRANCE, MAIN: | An entrance that is used to access the site, or building or portion of a building by the public. |
ENTRANCE, SERVICE: | An entrance that is not the main entrance and used to access employee restricted areas of the site or building, which includes service bays and loading docks. Required egress doors are not included in this definition. |
FAA: | The Federal Aviation Administration of the United States of America. |
FCC: | The Federal Communications Commission of the United States of America. |
FACADE: | Refers to matters of spatial definition and shall mean the vertical surface of a building set along a frontage line; facades are subject to visual definition by building height and setback lines. |
FENCE: | A freestanding structure of metal, masonry, composition or wood or any combination thereof permanently installed by being partially buried in the ground and rising above ground level, and used for confinement, screening, or partition purposes, further defined as the following: |
FENCE, OPEN (OR DECORATIVE): | A fence, including entrance and exit gates, designed and constructed so that the surface area of any segment of such fence contains at least 50 percent or more of open spaces. |
FENCE, SOLID (OR PRIVACY): | A fence that is constructed so that less than 50 percent of the area prohibits light through it, screening views.  |
FLOOD PROTECTION ELEVATION OR FPE: | The elevation of the base flood plus two feet (2') at any given location in the special flood hazard area. |
FLOODPLAIN: | The area typically adjacent to and including a body of water where ground surface elevations are at or below a specified flood elevation. |
FLOODWAY: | That portion of the SFHA required to store and convey the base flood. The floodway for the SFHAs of Salt Creek shall be as delineated on the flood boundary and floodway map prepared by FEMA and dated August 19, 1997. The floodway for each of the remaining SFHAs of the City shall be according to the best data available to the Illinois State water survey floodplain information repository. |
FLOOR AREA, GROSS (GFA): | The sum of the gross horizontal areas of the several floors of the building measured from the exterior faces of the exterior walls or from the centerline of walls separating two (2) buildings and shall include basement floor area; elevator shafts, escalators and stairwells at each floor; floor space used for mechanical, telephone and electrical equipment, open or enclosed, except when located on the roof; penthouses, except mechanical penthouses; attic space having headroom of seven feet ten inches (7'10") or more; interior balconies and mezzanines; enclosed porches; outdoor display areas; interior off street parking and loading facilities; and floor area devoted to accessory uses.  |
FLOOR AREA, NET (NFA): | The gross floor area of the several floors of the building less basement floor area when used for storage; elevator shafts, escalators and stairwells at each floor; floor space used for mechanical, telephone and electrical equipment, open or enclosed, except when located on the roof; penthouses, except mechanical penthouses; attic space having headroom of seven feet ten inches (7'10") or more; public restrooms, interior balconies and mezzanines and other interior common areas designed primarily for pedestrian circulation; enclosed porches; outdoor display areas; interior off street parking and loading facilities; and entrance lobbies. |
FOOD PREPARATION: | Catering establishment, where food is prepared on the premises for consumption elsewhere. |
FREIGHT: | Goods, wares, merchandise, substances, materials, and commodities of any kind being transported or transferred from one place to another by air, rail, or commercial motor vehicle. |
FREIGHT HANDLING FACILITY: | A building or portion thereof in which freight is assembled and/or temporarily stored for routing or reshipment, and may include dispatch services. |
FREIGHT YARD: | A parcel of land or portion thereof designed for the parking and/or storage of semitrailers, including truck tractors and/or trailer units, other commercial motor vehicles, buses and recreational vehicles and storage of shipping containers. |
FUNERAL HOME: | An establishment engaged in undertaking services such as preparing the dead for burial and arranging and managing funerals. |
GARAGE, PRIVATE: | A structure, or an accessory portion of the principal building, for the private use of the owner or occupant of the principal building, designed or used for the storage and shelter of motor vehicles. |
GARAGE, PUBLIC: | A building or portion thereof, other than a private garage, designed or used for the care, storage, of motor vehicles, or where such vehicles are kept for remuneration, hire or sale. |
GASOLINE STATION: | Any building, land area, or other premises, or a portion thereof, used or intended to be used for the retail dispensing or sale of motor vehicle fuels and fluids that may include the retail sale of other merchandise or services not related to dispensing fuel. |
GOLF COURSE: | Public or private facility for playing golf, and may include accessory clubhouse, driving range, miniature golf, restaurant, lounge, bar, pro shop and banquet facilities. |
GRADE OR GRADE LEVEL: | That elevation established by the City for the proper level of the sidewalk at the street lot line. Where the sidewalk does not adjoin the street lot line, grade at the street lot line shall be determined by taking the elevation established by the City for the street curb and adding thereto an amount equal to one-third (1/3) of an inch for each foot of horizontal distance between said edge of street curb and said street lot line; on alley, grade shall be that elevation which is commonly termed “alley grade at the property line”. |
GREENHOUSE: | Land or structures used to raise flowers, shrubs, trees and other plant material for sale at retail or wholesale. |
GROCERY / FOOD STORE: | An establishment where the principal use is the retail sale of food, including meats, produce, bakery and dry goods, and may include accessory preparation of food for consumption on or off the premises. |
GROUND COVER: | Woody or nonwoody plants with a maintained or unmaintained average mature height less than twelve inches (12"). |
GROUND FLOOR: | The first floor of a building other than a basement. |
HABITABLE SPACE: | Space in a structure designed for living, sleeping, eating or cooking, but excluding bathrooms, toilet compartments, closets, halls, storage or utility spaces and similar areas. |
HEALTH AND WELFARE FACILITY: | A facility specializing in medical treatment, physical therapy (alcohol and drug treatment), assisted living for all ages, retirement communities, and shelters. |
HEALTH CLUB: | See INDOOR ATHLETIC FACILITY. |
HEIGHT (FOR BUILDINGS): | The vertical distance of a building measured from GRADE at the midpoint of the front wall of a building to the highest point of the roof or parapet walls, excluding chimneys, mechanical equipment, cooling towers, storage tanks, bulkheads, spires, water towers, and antennas attached to or resting upon the building.  |
HEIGHT (FOR LANDSCAPING): | Reference to the general mature height of plant materials installed above the adjacent elevation of soil or paving. Specified height of a screening may be provided by a berm, combination of a berm and planting, or a structure unless otherwise specified herein. |
HOME BASED BUSINESS: | A business, profession, occupation or trade conducted for pecuniary gain entirely within a residential building, or, when permitted by this chapter, within a structure that is accessory to a residential building. |
HOME /GARDEN CENTER: | An establishment where home improvement materials, including, but not limited to, kitchen and bathroom accessories and fixtures, wall coverings, window coverings, heating and air conditioning, plumbing and electrical supplies, painting and decorating material, tools and residential construction and remodeling materials and supplies are sold for retail. These centers may include a nursery and/or greenhouse. Outdoor storage of building materials may be provided but is accessory to the principal use and structure and only as permitted by the district in which it is located. |
HOSPITAL: | An institution providing primary health services and medical or surgical care to inpatients suffering from illness, disease, injury, deformity and other abnormal physical or mental conditions and including as an integral part of the institution, related facilities such as laboratories, pharmacies, outpatient facilities or training facilities. |
HOTEL: | A building designed for transient occupancy containing lodging rooms or suites accessible from a common interior hall or entrance, providing living, sleeping and sanitary facilities. An accessory central kitchen, meeting rooms, dining room, swimming pool and recreation room may be provided in the same building or structure. |
IMPERVIOUS SURFACE: | Land cover that cannot effectively absorb or infiltrate water, including, but not limited to, nonporous asphalt or asphalt sealants, nonporous concrete, roofing materials and compacted gravel. |
INDOOR ATHLETIC FACILITIES: | An establishment that provides health, fitness, and exercise facilities such as running, jogging, aerobics, weightlifting, court sports, swimming, or other recreational activities. May also include facilities for sports training such as baseball, soccer, gymnastics, and martial arts. |
INDOOR ENTERTAINMENT AND AMUSEMENT FACILITIES: | An establishment where entertainment, either passive or active, is provided. Activities include but are not limited to bowling, billiards, performance arts and theater, indoor play park, and other similar uses. |
INDOOR RETAIL SALE OF GOODS: | The use of a structure for the display and sale of merchandise directly to the ultimate consumer that may include stocks of goods, wares or merchandise incidental to such purpose and open and accessible to the public. |
JUNKYARD: | An open area of land and any accessory building or structure thereon which is used for buying, selling, exchanging, storing, baling, packing, disassembling, or handling waste or scrap materials, including vehicles, machinery, and equipment not in operable condition or parts thereof, and other metals, paper, plastics, rags, rubber tires, and bottles. Two (2) or more inoperable motor vehicles stored on a zoning lot shall be considered a junkyard. A “junkyard” includes a motor vehicle wrecking yard, but does not include an establishment located in the applicable manufacturing district engaged exclusively in processing of scrap iron or other metals to be sold only to establishments engaged in manufacturing of steel or metal alloys. |
KENNEL: | Any lot or premises, or portion thereof, whether public or private, on which more than three (3) dogs, three (3) cats, or three (3) other household domestic animals over four (4) months of age are kept or on which more than two (2) such animals are maintained, boarded, bred, or cared for in return for remunerations or are kept for the purpose of sale. |
LOADING BERTH: | An off-street space for the temporary parking of a vehicle while loading or unloading merchandise or materials and which abuts on a street or an alley |
LIGHTED SPORTS FIELD: | Athletic fields lighted for competition purposes. |
LIQUOR STORE: | A place of business selling beer, wine and/or distilled liquors at retail, to the general public in sealed bottles or containers for consumption or use away from the premises where said establishment is located. |
LODGING: | see HOTEL. |
LOT: | Land that is part of a subdivision, the plat of which has been recorded in the Office of the County Recorder of Deeds, of DuPage County or it may be and consist of a part of such recorded lot, or it may include parts of or a combination of several lots when adjacent to one another and used as one parcel.  |
LOT, CORNER: | A lot which is situated at and abuts the intersection of two (2) or more streets or adjoins a curved street at the end of a block. |
LOT, INTERIOR: | A lot which has only its front yard bordering on a street. |
LOT, THROUGH (also DOUBLE FRONTAGE): | A lot which has its rear and front yard bordering on a street. |
LOT, REVERSE CORNER: | Any corner lot the side street line of which is substantially a continuation of the front lot line of the lot upon which the rear of said reverse corner lot abuts. |
LOT AREA: | The area of a horizontal plane bounded by the front, side and rear lot lines. Calculation of the required minimum lot area shall not include street right-of-way, whether dedicated to the public or a private street or easement for street purposes and, when adjacent a watercourse, drainageway, channel or stream, the area included in floodplain or easements reserved for the maintenance of said surface waters. |
LOT COVERAGE: | The percentage of a zoning lot improved with impervious surfaces, which includes but is not limited to decks and in ground swimming pools (above ground swimming pools do not count toward lot coverage). |
LOT DEPTH: | The distance between the midpoints of the front lot line and the midpoint of the rear lot line.  |
LOT LINES: | The lines bounding a LOT as defined herein. On a corner lot, the Development Administrator shall designate which of the two (2) lines abutting a street right-of-way shall be considered a corner lot line and which shall be considered a front lot line.  |
LOT LINE, FRONT: | A lot line abutting a street right-of-way. On a corner lot, the Development Administrator shall designate which of the two (2) lot lines abutting a street right-of-way shall be considered a front lot line and which shall be considered a side lot line. |
LOT LINE, REAR: | A lot line which is opposite and most distant from the front lot line and, in the case of triangular or irregular shaped lots, a line ten feet (10') in length within the lot, parallel to and at the maximum distance from the front lot line. |
LOT LINE, SIDE: | Any lot boundary line not a front lot line or a rear lot line setback. |
LOT, NONCONFORMING: | A lot that was lawfully created in accordance with lot area, lot width and lot depth regulations in effect at the time of the lot’s establishment but does not comply with currently applicable lot area, width or depth regulations. |
LOT OF RECORD: | A lot that is part of a subdivision, the plat of which has been recorded in the Office of the DuPage County Recorder of Deeds, or a legally created parcel of land, the deed to which is recorded in the Office of said County Recorder. |
LOT WIDTH: | The horizontal distance between the side lot lines of a lot measured within the lot boundary along the front building line.  |
LOT, ZONING: | A single tract of land under common ownership, wholly within the boundaries of the City and on one side of a public street, and which has frontage on a public street or private drive approved as part of a subdivision, which is designated by its owner or developer as a tract to be used, developed or built upon as a unit, under single ownership or control and which meets all requirements of this chapter. The division of a zoning lot may or may not result in the creation of two (2) or more zoning lots, and a zoning lot(s) may or may not coincide with a lot of record. |
LOUNGE: | See INDOOR ENTERTAINMENT AND AMUSEMENT FACILITIES. |
MANUFACTURING, GENERAL: | The mechanical or chemical transformation of materials or substances into new products including the assembling of components; parts, the manufacturing of products and the blending of materials. Uses which draw, roll, extrude, cast, forge, heat treat, electroplate, plate, anodize, or color ferrous and nonferrous metals. |
MANUFACTURING, LIMITED: | The manufacture, predominantly from previously prepared materials, of finished products or parts, including processing, fabrication, assembly, treatment and packaging of such products, and incidental storage, sales, and distribution of such products. This does not involve the assembly of large equipment and machinery and has very limited external impacts in terms of noise, vibration, odor, hours of operation and commercial motor vehicle traffic. |
MANUFACTURED HOUSING OR MANUFACTURED HOUSING UNIT: | A building assembly or system of building subassemblies, designed for habitation as a dwelling for one or more persons, including the necessary electrical, heating, ventilation and other service systems, which is of closed or open construction and which is made or assembled by a manufacturer, on or off the building site, for installation, assembly and installation, on the building site, with a permanent foundation. |
MEDICAL/ DENTAL CLINIC: | An establishment where one or more licensed medical professional operate as group within a room or group of rooms used for the diagnosis and treatment of human patients’ illnesses, injuries and physical maladies that can be performed in an office setting with no overnight care. Surgical, rehabilitation and other medical centers that do not involve overnight patient stays are included in this category, as are medical and dental laboratories. |
MEDICAL CANNABIS CULTIVATION CENTER: | A facility operated by an organization or business that is registered by the Illinois Department of Agriculture to perform necessary activities to provide only registered medical cannabis dispensing organizations with usable medical cannabis. |
MEMBERSHIP ORGANIZATION: | A group of people organized for a common purpose to pursue common goals, interest, or activities and usually characterized by certain membership qualifications, payment of dues, regular meeting, and constitution and bylaws. |
MICRO-BREWERY: | A manufacturer of alcoholic malt beverages of up to 15,000 barrels per year for the purpose of wholesale distribution of a majority of its product with incidental sales of up to 3,000 barrels to the public for on-site consumption or carryout. The microbrewery facility may include an ancillary tasting room and retail sales in which guests/customers may sample and purchase the product(s) associated with the facility’s use, and/or products manufactured on-site. |
MICRO-DISTILLERY: | A facility that produces alcoholic beverages in quantities not to exceed 15,000 gallons per year, and includes an accessory tasting room and retail sales area and/or restaurant. A tasting room allows customers to taste samples of products manufactured on-site and purchase related sales items. Sales of alcohol manufactured outside the facility are prohibited. |
MICRO-WINERY: | Combination retail, wholesale and small-scale artisan manufacturing business that blends, ferments, processes, packages, and distributes wine for sale on or off-site. The micro-winery facility may include an ancillary tasting room and retail component in which guests/customers may sample and purchase the product associated with the facility’s use, and/or products manufactured on-site. Operation of the facility shall be consistent with Illinois State law regarding “Second Class Wine Makers”. |
MINIMUM DEVELOPMENT AREA: | The area that may constitute a separate or detached part of any zoning district classification as set forth in this chapter. |
MINIWAREHOUSE: | See definition of PERSONAL STORAGE FACILITY. |
MOBILE HOME: | A movable or portable structure designed and intended for permanent habitation and constructed to be towed on its own chassis (comprised of frame and wheels) from the place of construction to the location or subsequent locations, and designed to be used without a permanent foundation and connected to utilities for year round occupancy without a permanent foundation. The term shall include: 1) units containing parts that may be folded, collapsed, or telescoped when being towed and that may be expanded to provide additional cubic capacity; 2) units composed of two (2) or more separately towable components designed to be joined into one integral unit capable of being separated again into the components for repeated towing; and 3) units designed to be used for residential, commercial, educational or industrial purposes, excluding, however, recreational vehicles. |
MOBILE HOME PARK: | An area of land or lands upon which five (5) or more independent mobile homes are harbored for rent. |
MOTEL: | A building offering transient occupancy containing lodging rooms directly accessible from an exterior hall or entrance, providing living, sleeping and sanitary facilities, whether such establishment is designated as a hotel, inn, automobile court, motor inn, motor lodge, tourist court, or otherwise. |
MOTOR VEHICLE: | Any motor powered device in, upon or by which any person or property may be transported, including any self-propelled device which derives motive power from an internal combustion engine, electricity, hydrogen fuel cell, or other alternative power source as determined by the Development Administrator. |
MOTOR VEHICLE, COMMERCIAL: | Any motor vehicle including but not limited to truck tractors and buses, and/or any vehicle requiring a commercial driver’s license to operate. Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration exemptions do not apply to this definition. |
MOTOR VEHICLE, PASSENGER: | Any motor vehicle used, designed, or maintained for the transportation of ten (10) persons or less, including but not limited to vans, trucks or sport utility vehicles, and not a commercial motor vehicle. |
MOTOR VEHICLE RENTAL: | An establishment where contracts are prepared, or reservations accepted for the rental or leasing of motor vehicles. This term includes incidental storage of vehicles but does not include on premise maintenance of vehicles or a tool/equipment rental facility. |
MOTOR VEHICLE REPAIR FACILITY: | A building or structure in which a business, service or industry involving the maintenance, repair, servicing or painting of vehicles, or other small engines is conducted or rendered. |
MOTOR VEHICLE SALES (NEW AND USED): | The use of any building or portion thereof, or other premises, for the display and sale of new motor vehicles, or used motor vehicles as an ancillary use of a lot, and any warranty repair work and other repair service conducted as an accessory use. |
MOTOR VEHICLE SERVICES: | Uses involved in the maintenance, repair, servicing and/or painting of automobiles or motor vehicles. |
MUSEUM OR CULTURAL FACILITY: | Special purpose art, entertainment or recreational establishments building, structure or site that preserves or exhibits, objects, sites and other items of historic, cultural or educational value. |
NURSERY SCHOOL: | See DAYCARE CENTER. |
NURSING HOME: | See SKILLED CARE FACILITY. |
OCCUPANCY: | The actual use of land, building and/or structure, or a portion thereof. |
OCCUPANCY, NON-RESIDENTIAL: | The occupancy for uses other than residential. |
OCCUPANCY, RESIDENTIAL: | The occupancy for living and sleeping purposes, that is not considered lodging. |
OFFICE, ADMINISTRATIVE AND PROFESSIONAL: | A room or group of rooms used for conducting the affairs of a business, profession, service industry or government, including but not limited to corporate office, law offices, architectural firms, insurance companies and other executive, management or administrative offices for businesses and corporations. |
ON-PREMISES CANNABIS CONSUMPTION ESTABLISHMENT: | A cannabis business establishment or other entity that is authorized or permitted to allow the on-premises consumption of cannabis. |
ORNAMENTAL TREE: | A tree with flowers, spring and fall color, and interesting growth habits are characteristics of these trees, with an average mature height less (under) than twenty feet (20'). |
OUTDOOR DINING, TEMPORARY: | Outdoor Café, accessory to a restaurant, delicatessen, bakery, ice cream store or other retail use. |
OUTDOOR RECREATION FACILITIES: | Uses that provide entertainment services partially or wholly outside of a completely enclosed building. Such uses typically, although not always, attract an audience where patrons are not engaged in a physical recreational activity. Examples include: Amusement parks, drive-in theaters, outdoor live theatres, vehicular and animal racetracks, zoos, and similar land uses. |
OVERLAY DISTRICT: | A set of regulations which add an additional layer of design provisions to an underlying zoning district. |
PARCEL: | A tract or plot of land. |
PARKING AREA: | See PARKING LOT/GARAGE. |
PARKING LOT/GARAGE: | An open area other than a street or alley, used for the temporary parking of more than four (4) vehicles whether free, for compensation, or as an accommodation for clients, customers or employees. |
PARKING LOT/GARAGE (COMMERCIAL): | A parcel of land used for the parking of motor vehicles for less than forty eight (48) consecutive hours in any seventy two (72) hour period, excluding freight yard. |
PARKING, NON-ACCESSORY: | A parcel of land used for parking of passenger motor vehicles as the primary use, as opposed to an accessory use to the principal use of a parcel or another adjacent property. |
PARKS AND RECREATION: | See OUTDOOR RECREATION FACILITY. |
PARKWAY: | As defined in Section 6.502 of this Code: The area between the edge of the existing paved street or curb and the property line. |
PATIO: | A level, unenclosed surfaced area located at grade and usually directly adjoining or attached to a building.  |
PAWNSHOP: | An establishment that, in part or in whole, loans or advances money on security of personal property left in pawn and pledged as collateral, and where the pledged property may be sold to the public if not redeemed by the pledger within a fixed amount of time. |
PERSON: | As defined in Section 4.106 of this Code: Any legal entity, including, but not limited to, an individual, firm, partnership, association, trust, joint stock company, corporation or successor of any of the foregoing. Whenever the word “person” is used in any section prescribing a penalty or fine as applied to partnerships or associations, the word shall include the partners or members thereof, and as applied to corporations, the word shall include officers, agents or employees thereof who are responsible for any violation of the section. |
PERSONAL GROOMING: | Personal services related to maintenance of hair, nails, skin, including, but not limited to barber shops, beauty and nail salons, and/or day spas. |
PERSONAL SERVICES: | Uses that provide a variety of non-medical services associated with frequent, recurrent, and instructional needs, including but not limited to personal grooming, fitness and leisure activities, individual or group instruction or training, and/or massage therapy. |
PERSONAL STORAGE FACILITY: | A building or group of buildings in a controlled access and fenced compound that contains various sizes of individual, compartmentalized, and controlled access stalls or lockers for the storage of customer’s goods or wares. |
PERSONAL WIRELESS SERVICE: | Commercial mobile services, unlicensed wireless services, and common carrier wireless exchange access services. |
PERSONAL WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS FACILITY: | Facilities for the provision of personal wireless services. |
PERVIOUS SURFACE: | Land cover of porous or permeable material that allows water to percolate into the soil to filter out pollutants and recharge the water table. Pervious materials include, but are not limited to, porous concrete, permeable pavers, landscape steppingstones with spacing between and planted rooftops designed to reduce runoff. To be considered pervious, pavers and other permeable surfaces must be designed and constructed in accordance with DuPage County standard details as approved from time to time by the DuPage County Municipal Engineers Group. |
PET CARE SERVICES: | Establishments providing ancillary animal services, such as grooming, training and care taking. Overnight boarding of animals is not permitted. |
PET STORE: | Establishments that include the retail sale of pets and other household animals (except for farming purposes) and pet supplies. Overnight boarding of animals is not permitted, except for pet shops where animals sold in the shop are permitted to remain there until sold. |
PETITIONER: | See APPLICANT. |
PLANNED UNIT DEVELOPMENT: | An area or tract of land under common ownership or control to be developed as a single entity that may include a number of structures, the plan for which does not necessarily correspond in lot size, bulk, type of dwelling, use, lot coverage, or required open space regulations established in the zoning district in which said land is located. |
PLAT OF SURVEY: | A plat of a lot, drawn to scale and by a licensed professional, showing the actual measurements, the size and location of any existing structures, the location of the lot in relation to abutting streets and other such information. |
PLAYGROUND: | An area with playground equipment. |
PLAYGROUND EQUIPMENT: | Play apparatus, including but is not limited to slides, swing sets, and jungle gyms. |
PLAYHOUSES: | A freestanding structure, exclusively for the use of children, and not intended to be used for storage. |
PORCH: | A roofed platform projecting from the wall of a building and having direct access to or from the building to which it is attached. A porch has no solid walls other than the wall of the building to which it is attached. A porch may be enclosed with a mesh screen to keep out unwanted insects, but is otherwise exposed to the elements throughout the year.  |
PRODUCT SHOWROOM: | Corporate facility where goods are displayed that may also include assembly, light production, shipping, administrative and operational functions. |
PUB: | See definition of TAVERN. |
PUBLIC PROPERTY: | As defined in Section 6.502 of this Code: Any property owned by a governmental entity, including but not limited to the City, township, County, special districts (such as the Library District, Fire Protection District, School District, etc.) and the State or Federal government. |
PUBLIC TREE: | As defined in Section 6.502 of this Code: Trees now or hereafter growing within a right-of-way or on any property owned or maintained by the City. |
QUEUING SPACE: | The reservoir space occupied by any number of cars that must be accommodated while awaiting ingress or egress to specified business or service establishments. |
RADIO OR TELEVISION BROADCASTING STUDIO: | A facility, and its accessory uses or structures, utilized for the broadcast or reception of electro-magnetically transmitted information, except those facilities as are defined as noncommercial telecommunication sites. |
RAILROAD RIGHT-OF-WAY: | A strip of land with tracks and auxiliary facilities for track operation and passenger station, but not including depot loading platforms, train sheds, warehouses, car shops, car yards, locomotive shops, water towers, etc. |
REAL ESTATE OFFICE/MODEL HOME: | A dwelling or other accessory structure temporarily used as a sales office for a residential development under construction for on-site sales. |
RECREATIONAL CANNABIS CULTIVATION CENTER: | Means “cultivation center” as defined in Section 1-10 of the Cannabis Regulation and Tax Act, as amended. |
RECREATIONAL VEHICLE: | Any vehicle or boat originally designed for living quarters, recreation, or human habitation and not used as a commercial vehicle, including, but not limited to, the following: |
1. Boats: Any vessel used for water travel; a boat mounted on a trailer shall be considered one vehicle. | |
2. Camping Trailers: A folding or collapsible vehicle without its own motive power, designed as temporary living quarters for travel, camping, recreation or vacation use. | |
3. Motor Homes: A temporary dwelling designed and constructed for travel, camping, recreational or vacation use as an integral part of a self-propelled vehicle. | |
4. Off Road Vehicles: Vehicles intended primarily for recreational use off of roads where State vehicle licenses are required, e.g., dune buggy, go-cart, snowmobile. | |
5. Racing Car/Cycles: Vehicles intended to be used in racing competition, such as a racecar or racing cycle, a racing car/cycle mounted on a trailer shall be considered one vehicle. | |
6. Travel Trailers: Vehicle without its own motive power, designed to be used as a temporary dwelling for travel, camping, recreational or vacation uses. | |
7. Truck Campers: A structure designed primarily to be mounted on a pickup truck or truck chassis and designed to be used as a temporary dwelling for travel, camping, recreational or vacation uses, when mounted on a truck, such structure shall be considered one vehicle. | |
8. Vans: Noncommercial motor vehicles licensed by the State of Illinois as a recreational vehicle. | |
9. Vehicle Trailers: A vehicle without its own motive power that is designed to transport another vehicle, such as a boat, motorcycle or snowmobile for recreational or vacation use and that is eligible to be licensed or registered and insured for highway use, a vehicle trailer with a vehicle mounted on it shall be considered one vehicle. | |
RECYCLING CENTER: | A facility that is not a junkyard, in which recoverable resources from used materials and products are purchased, collected, processed to a condition for reuse, or temporarily stored prior to delivery or sale to others who will use the recovered resources to manufacture new products. |
REGULATORY FLOODPLAIN: | The floodplain as determined by the base flood elevation used as the basis for regulation in article 2, section 15-16 through 15-17, DuPage County Countywide stormwater and floodplain ordinance. |
RELIGIOUS INSTITUTION: | A building in which persons regularly assemble for religious worship, intended primarily for purposes connected with such worship or for propagating a particular form of religious belief. |
REMODEL, REMODELING: | To remake, redecorate the interior or exterior of a structure without making structural alterations. |
RENOVATE: | To restore to an earlier condition. |
RESEARCH SERVICES: | The conduct of research, development, and testing in various fields of science, such as but not limited to chemistry, pharmacy, medicine, electricity, transportation and engineering. |
REST HOME: | See SKILLED CARE FACILITY. |
RESTAURANT: | Any building or part thereof where a menu of food items are cooked and prepared for compensation, for the general public for immediate consumption on and/or off the premises, including any part of such building or part thereof which may be used for dining by the general public. The retail sale of beer, wine and other alcoholic beverages for consumption on the premises and dancing may be provided on the premises. Reheating of already prepared food by microwave and/or the selling of already prepared food for consumption off premises does not constitute a restaurant. |
RETAIL: | See INDOOR RETAIL SALE OF GOODS. |
RETIREMENT HOME: | See SKILLED CARE FACILITY. |
RIGHT-OF-WAY: | As defined in Section 6.502 of this Code: An area of land not on a lot that is dedicated for public or private use to accommodate a transportation system and necessary public utility infrastructure (including but not limited to water lines, sewer lines, power lines and gas lines). In no case shall a right-of-way be construed to mean an easement. |
RUNOFF: | Water that flows over the surface of the land when rainfall is not able to infiltrate into the soil, due to soil saturation, impervious surface or the rate of rainfall exceeds the rate of water infiltration into the ground. |
SALES AREA: | An open area, other than a street used for the display or sale of merchandise. In the case of new or used automobiles or trailers other than mobile homes and house trailers, no repair work may be done except for minor vehicle repair and repair of trailers to be displayed and sold on premises. |
SALES OFFICE: | An accessory structure temporarily used as a sales office for a permitted outdoor sales use. |
SANATORIUM: | See HOSPITAL. |
SCHOOL, COMMERCIAL/TRADE SCHOOL: | A school which principally offers, for profit, specific courses of instruction in business, trade, industry or other trained skills, but does not offer academic instruction equivalent to the standards prescribed by the School Code of Illinois. |
SCHOOL, PRIVATE/NON-PROFIT: | An institution conducting regular academic instruction at kindergarten, elementary, junior high or senior high school levels, operated by governmental or nongovernmental organizations (which programs are accepted by the State of Illinois in lieu of public instruction). |
SCREEN: | A structure or planting composed of sufficient material to obstruct vision beyond the screen as defined in or determined through City review of screening required in this Code. |
SEPTIC SYSTEM: | An underground system with a septic tank used for the discharge of domestic sewage waste. |
SERVICE STATION: | See MOTOR VEHICLE REPAIR FACILITY. |
SETBACK: | Refers to matters of spatial definition and shall mean the mandatory distance between a frontage line and a facade, or a lot line and an elevation. |
SHADE TREE: | A large tree with main purpose of this type of tree in landscape designs is to provide shade and scale against buildings, with a spreading crown and canopy, and standard growth habit with an average mature height in excess of twenty feet (20'). |
SHED: | A relatively small storage structure often purchased pre-built or as a kit in pre-fabricated sections. It is not designed to be served by heat, electricity or plumbing and does not need to be placed on a permanent foundation. The structure is intended to store lawn, garden, or pool care equipment. |
SHOPPING CENTER: | A group of more than five (5) business establishments planned, developed and managed as a unit, located on the same lot with off street parking provided on the property. |
SHORT TERM RESIDENTIAL RENTAL: | Any dwelling or portion thereof, made available for use or used for accommodations or lodging of guests paying a fee or other compensation for a period of less than 30 consecutive days. |
SHRUB: | A branched woody plant with an unmaintained average mature height less than eight feet (8'). |
SIGN: | Any display, figure, painting, drawings, placard, poster or other device visible from a public right of way that is designed, intended or used to convey a message, advertise, inform or direct attention to a person, institution, organization, activity, place, object or product. It may be a structure or part thereof painted on or attached directly or indirectly on a structure. This definition does not include any flag or insignia of any nation, state, city or other political units, as well as any sign, board or surface used to display or announce official notice of such political units. As further defined in Chapter 13 of this Code. |
SIGHT TRIANGLE: | A triangular area established on private property at the intersection of two (2) streets or a street and a driveway in which nothing shall be erected, planted, or allowed to grow so as to limit or obstruct the sight distance of motorists and pedestrians.  |
SITE, BUILDING: | The ground area of a building or a group of buildings together with all open spaces as required by this chapter. |
SKILLED CARE FACILITY: | An establishment for the care of the aged or infirm, or a place of rest for those suffering bodily disorders, including assisted senior living, skilled senior living, memory care, and extended stay physical rehab. |
SMOKE SHOP: | A business establishment that offers smoking cigars, vaping or smoking from a communal pipe device known as a hookah pipe and used to smoke flavored tobacco or herbal products. |
SOLAR COLLECTOR: | 1. An assembly, structure, or design, including passive elements, used for gathering, concentrating, or absorbing direct or indirect solar energy, specially designed for holding a substantial amount of thermal energy and to transfer that energy to a gas, solid, or liquid or to use that energy directly; or |
2. A mechanism that absorbs solar energy and converts it into electricity; or | |
3. A mechanism or process used for gathering solar energy through wind or thermal gradients; or | |
4. A component used to transfer thermal energy to a gas, solid, or liquid, or to convert it into electricity. | |
SOLAR ENERGY: | Radiant energy received from the sun at wavelengths suitable for heat transfer, photosynthetic use, or photovoltaic use. |
SOLAR ENERGY SYSTEM: | 1. Solar Energy System Includes: A complete assembly, structure, or design of a solar collector, or a solar mechanism, which uses solar energy for generating electricity or for heating or cooling gases, solids, liquids, or other materials: |
a. The design, materials, or elements of a system and its maintenance, operation, and labor systems designed or constructed to interface with a solar energy system; and | |
b. Any legal, financial, or institutional orders, certificates, or mechanisms, including easements, leases, and agreements, required to ensure continued access to solar energy, its source, or its use in a solar energy system, and including monitoring and educational elements of a demonstration project. | |
2. Solar energy system does not include: | |
a. Distribution equipment that is equally usable in a conventional energy system except for such components of such equipment as are necessary for meeting the requirements of efficient solar energy utilization; | |
b. Components of a solar energy system that serve structural, insulating, protective, shading, aesthetic, or other non solar energy utilization purposes, as defined in the regulations of the department of energy; and | |
c. Any facilities of a public utility used to transmit or distribute gas or electricity. | |
SOLAR STORAGE MECHANISM: | Equipment or elements (such as piping and transfer mechanisms, containers, heat exchangers, or controls thereof, and gases, solids, liquids, or combinations thereof) that are utilized for storing solar energy, gathered by a solar collector, for subsequent use. |
SPECIAL USE: | A use which, because of its unique characteristics cannot be properly classified in any particular zoning district or districts without consideration in each individual case of the impact of such use upon neighboring land and of the public need for that particular special use at that particular location. |
SPORTS COURTS: | An area designed and designated for active recreation, including but not limited to basketball courts, tennis courts, or skating rinks. Does not include any area designed as a driveway. |
STADIUM: | A building or outdoor area or structure specifically designed and used as a place of assembly for events related to sports, concerts, civic gatherings, private functions, etc. |
STORMWATER MANAGEMENT SYSTEM: | Storage of stormwater in a manner that promotes infiltration into the ground while providing volumetric storage for the additional runoff. Examples of stormwater management systems include, but are not limited to, French drain, rain garden, underground storage system, drywell, rainwater harvesting system and properly installed pervious surface materials (such as porous concrete, permeable pavers, open cell cavities, etc.). |
STORY: | That portion of a building included between the upper surface of a floor and the upper surface of a floor or roof next above.  |
STREET: | The paved or unpaved portion of a public or private right-of-way, other than an alley which affords principal means of vehicular access to abutting property.  |
STREET, LOCAL: | A street of limited continuity used primarily for access to abutting properties and designated “nonarterial” by the Public Works Director. |
STREET ORIENTATION: | The direction of the architectural front facade of a building in relation to the street. |
STRUCTURAL ALTERATION: | Any change or modification, other than incidental repairs or which are required by provisions of this chapter, which would prolong the life of the supporting member of a structure such as bearing walls, columns, beams, girders or foundations. |
STRUCTURE: | Anything erected, the use of which requires permanent location on or in the ground or attached to something having a permanent location on or in the ground, including, but not limited to, buildings, towers, antennas, freestanding signs, decks, garden sheds, swimming pools and hard surfacing, such as pervious surfacing, asphalt, concrete, etc. |
STRUCTURE, NONCONFORMING: | A structure that was lawfully established but no longer complies with applicable lot and building regulations or other dimensional or locational requirements of this Article. |
STRUCTURE, PRINCIPAL: | See BUILDING, PRINCIPAL. |
SUBDIVISION. | A subdivision is (1) any change, rearrangement or resubdivision in the boundary or divisional lines of any parcel or parcels of real estate or any public thoroughfare; (2) the platting of a parcel or tract of land into a single numbered lot without alteration of its boundaries; (3) a planned development or planned unit development; or (4) a development. |
SWIMMING POOL: | A structure designed to hold water and maintain a water depth of twenty-four inches (24") or more, but not including hot tubs or wading pools. |
TATTOO PARLOR: | A commercial use where tattooing is performed for compensation. |
TAVERN: | An establishment for the retail sale of beer, wine and other alcoholic beverages for consumption on the premises and providing a menu of food items prepared during all hours of operation. The incidental sale of packaged liquor may be provided during the hours of operation. Dancing and entertainment may be included as part of this use. |
TERRACE: | A relatively leveled paved or planted area on top of a flat roof or open platform adjoining a building. |
TOMBSTONE AND MONUMENT SALES: | An establishment involved, in part or in whole, in the retail sale of tombstones, gravestones, burial monuments, and other similar items. |
TRACT: | Used interchangeably with the term “lot”, particularly in the context of subdivisions, where one “tract” is subdivided into several “lots”. |
TRAILER: | Any structure built on a chassis for licensing by the Secretary of State as a trailer and designed for general hauling or recreational purposes. |
TRANSIT STATION/ FACILITY: | A building or area specifically designated for the assembly and boarding and unboarding of passengers to/from a train or bus. |
TRELLIS: | A frame of wooden or metal, mainly used to support small trees or climbing plants. |
TRUCK TRACTOR: | As defined in Section 15.153 of this Code: Every motor vehicle designed and used primarily for drawing other vehicles and not so constructed as to carry a load other than a part of the weight of the vehicle and load so drawn. |
USE: | The purpose or purposes for which land, buildings or structures is (are) designed, arranged or intended, or for which they are or may be occupied or maintained. |
USE, CONFORMING: | Any use of land, buildings or structures which conforms with the list of permitted uses of the zoning district in which the land, building or structure is located, or which is governed by an active special use permit authorized by the City Council. If the use is a permitted use but does not conform to the intensity of use regulations of the district in which it is situated, then the use shall not be deemed to be a conforming use. |
USE, NONCONFORMING: | Any building or structure or use of any building or structure or tract of land, lawfully existing or under construction at the time of adoption of this chapter or of a later amendment, but does not conform to one or more of the requirements or restrictions of this chapter. |
UTILITIES AND PUBLIC SERVICE FACILITY, 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. |
UTILITIES AND PUBLIC SERVICE FACILITY, 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 such as poles, wires, cables, conduits, vaults, laterals, pipes, mains, valves or other similar equipment for the distribution to consumers of |
telephone or other communications, electricity, gas, water, or for the collection of sewage. Typical uses also 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 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 and neighborhood stormwater facilities. | |
3. 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 at wholesale to the power grid. | |
VARIATION: | A modification of the application of this chapter in specific cases where practical difficulties or particular hardships, not intended or not common to other property owners in the district, would result from following the strict letter of this chapter. |
WALL, COMMON: | An interior wall that separates and distinguishes two (2) or more uses located in the same building or structure. A common wall extends from floor to ceiling and from exterior wall to exterior wall, and conforms to the fire resistance requirements of the City’s Building Code. |
WAREHOUSE: | A structure, or portion thereof, used principally for the storage of goods and merchandise conducted within a completely enclosed building, that is not a freight handling or warehouse and distribution facility. |
WAREHOUSE AND DISTRIBUTION: | A building used in the storage, wholesale, and distribution of manufactured products, supplies, and equipment, but excluding bulk storage of materials that are flammable or explosive or that create hazardous or commonly recognized offensive conditions. |
WHOLESALE: | The sale of goods, wares, or merchandise to retailers or distributors rather than consumers. |
WRECKING YARD, MOTOR VEHICLE: | A lot or any portion of a lot where two (2) or more motor vehicles or trailers which, for a period of thirty (30) days, have not been capable of operating under their own power, and from which parts have been or are to be removed for sale or reuse, or any land, buildings, or structures used for the wrecking, dismantling, salvage, sale or storage of such motor vehicles, trailers or the parts thereof. |
YARD: | The open space on a lot between the elevation of the påincipal structure and the adjacent lot line.  Porch encroachment into front yard |
YARD, CORNER SIDE: | The open space on a lot between the corner side lot line and the side wall(s) of the principal structure closest to the corner side lot line, excluding any rear or front yards. |
YARD, FRONT: | The open space on a lot between the front lot line and the front wall of the principal structure. |
YARD, REAR: | The open space on a lot between the rear lot line and the rear wall of the principal structure, excluding any corner side yard. |
YARD, SIDE: | The open space between the side lot line and the side wall of the principal structure closest to the side lot line, excluding any rear or front yards. |
YARD, TRANSITIONAL: | The required front, side, corner side or rear yard on a lot in a commercial or industrial district, or for a nonresidential use in a residential district and an adjoining residential use in a residential district, except when such yard is adjacent to a railroad right-of-way, alley or street. |
(Ord. O-22-017, 5-19-2022; amd. Ord. O-22-030, 11-17-2022; Ord. O-24-002, 2-15-2024; Ord. O-24-032, 10-3-2024; Ord. O-25-011, 3-20-2025)