Yorkville City Zoning Code
CHAPTER 2
DEFINITIONS
10-2-1. “A” Definitions
10-2-8. “H” Definitions
10-2-9. “I” Definitions
10-2-10. “J” Definitions
RESERVE
Effective on: 1/1/1901
10-2-15. “O” Definitions
10-2-17. “Q” Definitions
RESERVE
Effective on: 1/1/1901
10-2-23. “W” Definitions
10-2-24. “X” Definitions
RESERVE
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Abutting:
Abutting: To have a common property line or zoning district.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Accessory Commercial Unit:
Accessory Commercial Unit: Activities that are secondary to a principal use in the residential use category as established in this title. Accessory Commercial Units have use-specific standards that apply to ensure they will not deter from the character or livability of the surrounding neighborhood, that they remain subordinate to the residential use, and that the residential viability of the dwelling is maintained.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Accessory Building:
Accessory Building: A subordinate building attached to or detached from the principal building or use but located on the same zoning lot. Accessory buildings shall have a permanent foundation and include garages and storage sheds.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Accessory Structure, Permanent
Accessory Structure, Permanent: A subordinate structure located on the same lot as a principal building or use and intended to be permanently affixed to the ground on the property. Permanent accessory structures are structures that do not have permanent foundations and include pools, gazebos, and sheds, and attached accessory structures such as a three-season room, covered porch, or roofed patio.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Accessory Structure, Temporary:
Accessory Structure, Temporary: A subordinate structure located on the same lot as a principal building or use and not intended to be permanently affixed to the ground on the property. Temporary accessory structures shall not have permanent foundations and shall include structures used for construction purposes, roadside stands, and other accessory structures established for a limited duration.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Accessory Use:
Accessory Use: A use on the same lot with, and a nature customarily incidental and subordinate to, the principal use or structure.
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Acre:
Acre: A measure of land containing forty-three thousand five hundred sixty (43,560) square feet.
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Addition:
Addition: An expansion of the principal or accessory building that is indistinguishable from the original building and utilizes the heating, cooling, electrical and plumbing systems from the original construction and has been incorporated into the original building thermal envelope. Any attached permanent accessory structure such as a three season room, covered porch or roofed patio that does not have heating, ventilation or air-conditioned systems or enclosed by glass is not considered a building addition.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Adult Day Care:
Adult Day Care: A program of services provided for functionally-impaired adults who do not require 24-hour institutional care, and yet who are in need of an adult day care program directed toward maintaining physical and mental health, and should be a structured, comprehensive program providing a variety of health, social, and related support services in a protective setting for a period of time less than twenty-four (24) hours.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Adult Use:
Adult Use: A striptease club or pornographic movie theatre whose business is the commercial sale, dissemination, or distribution of sexually explicit material, shows, or other exhibitions or (ii) an adult bookstore or adult video store in which twenty-five (25) percent or more of its stock-in-trade, books, magazines, and films for sale, exhibition, or viewing on-premises are sexually explicit material.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Aggregate Materials Extraction:
Aggregate Materials Extraction: A use involving on-site extraction of surface or subsurface mineral products or natural resources. Typical uses are quarries, borrow pits, sand and gravel operation, mining, and soil mining.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Agricultural Use:
Agricultural Use: The employment of land for the primary purpose of raising, harvesting, and selling crops, or feeding (including grazing), breeding, managing, selling, or producing livestock, poultry, furbearing animals or honeybees, or by dairying and the sale of dairy products, by any other horticultural, floricultural or viticulture use, by animal husbandry, or by any combination thereof. It also includes the current employment of land for the primary purpose of obtaining a profit by stabling or training equines including, but not limited to, providing riding lessons, training clinics and schooling shows.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Airport:
Airport: Any area of land designated, set aside, used, or intended for use, for the landing and takeoff of passenger or commercial aircraft, and any appurtenant areas and uses such as airport buildings or other airport facilities, including approach zones.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Alcoholic Beverage:
Alcoholic Beverage: Any beverage that is the product of distillation of fermented liquids, whether rectified or diluted, whatever may be the origin thereof, and includes synthetic ethyl alcohol but does not include denatured alcohol or wood alcohol.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Alley:
Alley: A private right-of-way primarily designed to serve as secondary access to the side or rear of properties whose principal frontage is on another street.
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Alternative Tower Structure:
Alternative Tower Structure: Manmade trees, clock towers, bell steeples, light poles and similar alternative design mounting structures that camouflage or conceal the presence of antennas and towers.
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Amusement Park:
Amusement Park: A commercially operated park with a predominance of outdoor games and activities for entertainment, including motorized rides, water slides, miniature golf, batting cages, accessory food service, and similar activities.
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Animal Hospital:
Animal Hospital: Any building, or portion thereof, designed or used for the medical or surgical care, observation or treatment of domestic animals for an overnight duration or longer.
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Antenna:
Antenna: Communications equipment that transmits or receives electromagnetic radio signals used in the provision of any type of wireless communications services not including small wireless facilities.
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Antenna Structures:
Antenna Structures: Those structures which include the radiating and/or receiving system, its supporting structures (see definition of tower), and any appurtenance mounted thereon as defined by the Federal Communications Commission or any successor agency.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Amphitheater.
Amphitheater. A commercial structure with tiers of spectator seating rising around a field or court, intended primarily for use of viewing musical, theatrical, sporting or other similar entertainment events and specifically designed as a place of assembly.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Apiary:
Apiary: The place where one (1) or more bee colonies are kept.
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Artisan Manufacturing:
Artisan Manufacturing: The production and assembly of finished products or component parts, typically by hand, and including design, processing, fabrication, assembly, treatment, and packaging of finished products, and incidental storage, on-site retail sale, and distribution of the associated goods. Artisan manufacturing may include but is not limited to food and bakery products, non-alcoholic beverages, printmaking, leather products, jewelry and clothing/apparel, metal work, woodwork, furniture and glass or ceramic production.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Art Gallery/Art Studio:
Art Gallery/Art Studio: An establishment engaged in the sale or exhibit of art works such as paintings, sculpture, macrame, knitted goods, stitchery, or pottery. Art studios are may also be engaged in the creations of such art works and often offer instruction in their creation.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Assembly, Production, Manufacturing, Testing, Repairing, or Processing, Light
Assembly, Production, Manufacturing, Testing, Repairing, or Processing, Light: An industrial facility at which all operations (with the exception of loading operations): Are conducted entirely within an enclosed building; not potentially associated with nuisances such as odor, noise, heat, vibration, and radiation which are detectable at the property line; and do not pose a significant safety hazard (such as danger of explosion).
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Assembly, Production, Manufacturing, Testing, Repairing, or Processing, Heavy:
Assembly, Production, Manufacturing, Testing, Repairing, or Processing, Heavy: An industrial facility at which all operations (with the exception of loading operations): Are conducted entirely within an enclosed building and which generate odor, noise, heat, vibration, and radiation which are detectable at the property line; but do not pose a significant safety hazard (such as danger of explosion).
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Attention-Getting Device:
Attention-Getting Device: Any flag(s), streamer, spinner, pennant, light, balloon, continuous string of pennants, or fringe, or similar device or ornamentation used primarily for the purpose of attracting attention for promotion or advertising a business or commercial activity which is visible by the general public from any public right-of-way or public area.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Auction House:
Auction House: A structure, area, or areas within a building used for the public sale of goods, wares, merchandise, or equipment to the highest bidder.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Automobile Parts/Accessories Sales:
Automobile Parts/Accessories Sales: A retail establishment dedicated to the sale of automobile components, parts, and accessories but not including on-site repair or maintenance of automobiles.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Automobile Rental:
Automobile Rental: Leasing or renting of automobiles, motorcycles and light trucks and vans, including incidental parking and servicing of vehicles for rent or lease. This definition excludes commercial truck and trailer rental.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Automobile Repair:
Automobile Repair: Engine rebuilding or major reconditioning of worn or damaged motor vehicles or trailers; collision service, including body, frame or fender straightening or repair and painting of vehicles including incidental repairs, replacement of parts, and motor service to automobiles. Automobile repair excludes repair to semi-trucks.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Automobile Sales and Service, Enclosed:
Automobile Sales and Service, Enclosed: An establishment engaged in the sale of automobiles where all operations take place entirely within an enclosed showroom in a primary building.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Automobile Sales and Service, Open Sales Lot:
Automobile Sales and Service, Open Sales Lot: An establishment engaged in the sale of automobiles where some operations, including but not limited the display of vehicles for sale take place outside of an enclosed building.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Bakery, Wholesale:
Bakery, Wholesale: A bakery in which there is permitted the production and/or wholesaling of baked goods, excluding retail bakery.
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Bank:
Bank: A building for the custody, loan, or exchange of money, for the extension of credit and for facilitating the transmission of funds. This definition includes credit unions, savings and loan facilities, payday loans, personal loan agencies.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Basement:
Basement: That portion of a building that is partly or completely below grade.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Battery Uses:
Battery Uses: A use that enables battery manufacturing, charging, recycling, warehousing, storage, and related uses. This may also include uses that derive energy from renewable sources, such as wind and solar power, to be collected, stored, and then released for later use to an electric grid, power plant or private user.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Bed and Breakfast Inn:
Bed and Breakfast Inn: A private, owner/operator occupied residence with guestrooms, providing overnight accommodations and a morning meal for compensation to transients/travelers. A bed and breakfast inn is operated primarily as a business.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Blacksmith or Welding Shop:
Blacksmith or Welding Shop: Shops where lathes, presses, grinders, shapers, and other wood- and metal-working machines are used such as blacksmith, tinsmith, welding, and sheet metal shops; plumbing, heating, and electrical repair shops; and overhaul shops.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Block:
Block: A tract of land bounded by streets or, in lieu of a street or streets, by public parks, cemeteries, railroad rights-of-way, bulkhead lines or shorelines of waterways or corporate boundary lines of municipalities.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Boat Sales and Rental:
Boat Sales and Rental: A marine retail sales and service use in which boats are rented or sold.
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Boat Storage:
Boat Storage: A facility where boats are stored including indoor and outdoor.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Brewery/Winery/Distillery:
Brewery/Winery/Distillery: An establishment primarily engaged in brewing fermented malt beverages including beer, ale, malt liquors, and nonalcoholic beer (brewery), manufacturing and bottling wine on the premises (winery), or manufacturing, by distillation, intoxicating spirits on the premises (distillery) but not including on-premises consumption by patrons.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Brewpub:
Brewpub: A restaurant-brewery that brews beer primarily for sale in the restaurant and/or bar and is dispensed directly from the brewery’s storage tanks. Total production capacity shall not exceed one-hundred fifty-five thousand (155,000) gallons per calendar year.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Buffer:
Buffer: A strip of land, including landscaping, berms, walls, and fences, that is located between land uses of different character and is intended to physically and visually separate one (1) use area from another and mitigate visual and other off-site impacts.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Building:
Building: Any structure with substantial walls and roof having a permanent foundation on the land and entirely separated on all sides from any other structure by space or by walls in which there are not communicating doors, windows, or openings; and which is designed or intended for the shelter, enclosure or protection of persons, animals or chattels.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Building, Detached:
Building, Detached: A building surrounded by open space and not sharing a common wall with another building on the same zoning lot.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Building Height:
Building Height: The vertical distance measured from the sidewalk level or its equivalent established grade opposite the middle of the front of the building to the highest point of the roof in the case of a flat roof; to the deck line of a mansard roof; and to the mean height level between eaves and the ridge of a gable, hip or gambrel roof; provided, that where buildings are set back from the street line, the height of the building may be measured from the average elevation of the finished lot grade at the front of the building.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Building Material Sales:
Building Material Sales: Establishments or places of business primarily engaged in retail or wholesale sale, from the premises, of materials used in the construction of buildings or other structures.
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Building Mounted Solar Energy System:
Building Mounted Solar Energy System: A solar energy collection system that is structurally mounted to the roof of a building or other permitted structure, including limited accessory equipment associated with system which may be ground mounted. It is installed parallel to the roof with a few inches gap.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Building Mounted Wind Energy System:
Building Mounted Wind Energy System: A wind turbine that is structurally mounted to the roof of a principal building, including limited accessory equipment associated with the system which may be ground mounted.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Building, Nonconforming:
Building, Nonconforming: Any building which does not conform to the regulations of this title including but not limited to the required yards, lot coverage, height and setbacks, minimum required spacing between buildings on a single lot, and minimum required usable open space for the district in which such building is located.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Building, Principal:
Building, Principal: A non-accessory building in which the principal use of the zoning lot on which it is located is conducted.
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Building Setback Line:
Building Setback Line: A parallel line across a lot or parcel of land, establishing the minimum open space to be provided between the line of a building or structure, and the lot line of the lot or parcel.
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Building, Temporary:
Building, Temporary: Any building not designed to be permanently located in the place where it is, or where it is intended to be placed or affixed.
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Bulk:
Bulk: The term used to describe the size and mutual relationships of buildings and other structures, as to size, height, coverage, shape, location of exterior walls in relation to lot lines, to the centerlines of the streets, to other walls of the same buildings, and to other buildings or structures, and to all open spaces relating to the building or structure.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Bumper Overhang:
Bumper Overhang: The part of a motor vehicle which extends beyond the wheelbase in the front and rear of the vehicle.
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Business:
Business: Any occupation, employment, or enterprise wherein merchandise is exhibited or sold, or which occupies time, attention, labor, and materials, or where services are offered for compensation.
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Campground:
Campground: Any area that is occupied or intended or designed or improved for occupancy by transients using recreational vehicles, travel trailers, and/or tents.
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Carport:
Carport: An automobile shelter with two (2) or more sides open.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Car Wash:
Car Wash: The primary or secondary use of a site for washing and cleaning of passenger vehicles, commercial vehicles, recreational vehicles, or other light duty equipment.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Casino and Off-Track Betting Establishment:
Casino and Off-Track Betting Establishment: An establishment intended to deal, operate, carry on, conduct, maintain, or expose for play any game, sports book, parimutuel, or any other form of wagering.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Cemetery:
Cemetery: Land used or dedicated to the interment of human or animal remains or cremated remains, including mausoleums, necessary sales, and maintenance facilities. Mortuaries shall be included when operating within the boundary of such cemetery.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
City:
City: The United City of Yorkville or the City of Yorkville.
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City Council:
City Council: The City Council of the City of Yorkville.
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College, University, or Junior College
College, University, or Junior College: A private or public college or technical institution which provides full-time or part-time education beyond high school that grants Associate, Baccalaureate, or higher degrees.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Commercial Entertainment, Indoor:
Commercial Entertainment, Indoor: Commercial indoor recreation facilities are conducted entirely indoors for commercial purposes, with or without seating for spectators, and providing accommodations for a variety of individual, organized, or franchised sports, including wrestling, gymnastics, basketball, soccer, tennis, volleyball, racquetball, handball, bowling, indoor golf driving ranges, skating, and ice skating.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Commercial Entertainment, Outdoor:
Commercial Entertainment, Outdoor: Commercial outdoor recreation facilities are conducted entirely outdoor for commercial purposes, with or without seating for spectators, and providing accommodations for a variety of individual, organized, or franchised sports, including wrestling, basketball, soccer, tennis, volleyball, racquetball, handball, outdoor golf driving ranges, skating, and ice skating.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Commercial Feeding of Fish, Poultry, Livestock:
Commercial Feeding of Fish, Poultry, Livestock: A land use or facility used for the confined feeding operation for fish, poultry, swine, or livestock.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Commercial Laboratory:
Commercial Laboratory: A laboratory, that performs analyses or tests for third parties for a fee or other compensation and provides chemical analyses, analytical results, or other test data to the department.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Commercial/Trade School:
Commercial/Trade School: A school established to provide for the teaching of industrial, clerical, managerial, artistic skills or alternative education. This definition applies to schools that are owned and operated privately for profit or not for profit. Such schools may not contain an auditorium, gymnasium, or any other sort of recreational facilities.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Community Garden:
Community Garden: A site on which residents collectively manage a garden for a shared benefit.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Communications Use:
Communications Use: Any principal use that facilitates the origination, creation, transmission, emission, storage-retrieval, or reception of signs, signals, writing, images, sounds, or intelligence of any nature, by wire, optical, or other excluding radio and television towers as defined in this UDO.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Conforming Building or Structure:
Conforming Building or Structure: A building or structure which:
- 1.Complies with all the current regulations of this title or of any amendment hereto governing bulk of the district in which the building or structure is located; and
- 2.Is designed or intended for a permitted or special use as allowed in the district in which it is located.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Contractor Facility With Outdoor Storage:
Contractor Facility With Outdoor Storage: A general contractor or builder engaged in the construction of buildings, either residences or commercial structures as well as heavy construction contractors engaged in activities such as paving, highway construction, and utility construction, which include the outdoor storage of equipment on-site.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Court:
Court: An open unoccupied space, other than a yard, on the same lot with a building or group of buildings and which is bounded on two (2) or more sides by such building or buildings.
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Crosswalk:
Crosswalk: A strip of land ten (10) feet or more in width, dedicated to public use, which is reserved across a block to provide pedestrian access to adjacent areas, and may include utilities, where necessary.
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Cul-De-Sac:
Cul-De-Sac: A street having only one (1) outlet, and an appropriate terminal for the reversal of traffic movement, without the need to back up.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Cultivation of Nonfood Crops and Seeds Used of Cellulosic Biofuels Production:
Cultivation of Nonfood Crops and Seeds Used of Cellulosic Biofuels Production: The cultivation of crops and seeds not intended for the eventual consumption of food, but rather for the use of the production of biofuels.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Cannabis Craft Grower:
Cannabis Craft Grower: A facility operated by an organization or business that is licensed by the Department of Agriculture to cultivate, dry, cure, and package cannabis and perform other necessary activities to make cannabis available for sale at a dispensing organization or use at a processing organization. A craft grower may contain up to five-thousand (5,000) square feet of canopy space on its premises for plants in the flowering state. A craft grower may share premises with a processing organization or a dispensing organization, or both, provided each licensee stores currency and cannabis or cannabis-infused products in a separate secured vault to which the other licensee does not have access or all licensees sharing a vault share more than fifty (50) percent of the same ownership as allowed by the Cannabis Regulation and Tax Act (410 ILCS 705/1 et seq.) and regulations promulgated thereunder.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Cannabis Cultivation Center:
Cannabis Cultivation Center: A facility operated by an organization or business that is licensed by the Department of Agriculture to cultivate, process, transport (unless otherwise limited by this Act), and perform other necessary activities to provide cannabis and cannabis-infused products to cannabis business establishments as allowed by the Cannabis Regulation and Tax Act (410 ILCS 705/1 et seq.) and regulations promulgated thereunder.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Cannabis Dispensing Organization
Cannabis Dispensing Organization: A facility operated by an organization or business that is licensed by the department of financial and professional regulation to acquire cannabis from a state-licensed cultivation center, craft grower, processing organization, or another dispensary 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 as allowed by the Cannabis Regulation and Tax Act (410 ILCS 705/1 et seq.) and regulations promulgated thereunder.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Cannabis Infuser Organization:
Cannabis Infuser Organization: A facility operated by an organization or business licensed by the state department of agriculture to directly incorporate cannabis or cannabis concentrate into a product formulation to produce a cannabis-infused product, as allowed by the Cannabis Regulation and Tax Act (410 ILCS 705/1 et seq.) and regulations promulgated thereunder.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Cannabis Processing Organization:
Cannabis Processing Organization: A facility operated by an organization or business that is licensed by the Department of Agriculture to either extract constituent chemicals or compounds to produce cannabis concentrate or incorporate cannabis or cannabis concentrate into a product formulation to produce a cannabis product as allowed by the Cannabis Regulation and Tax Act (410 ILCS 705/1 et seq.) and regulations promulgated thereunder.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Cannabis Transporting Organization:
Cannabis Transporting Organization: An organization or business that is licensed by the Department of Agriculture to transport cannabis or cannabis-infused product on behalf of a cannabis business establishment or a community college licensed under the Community College Cannabis Vocational Training Pilot Program.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Daycare Facility:
Daycare Facility: Any childcare facility licensed by the State Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS) which regularly provides daycare for less than twenty-four (24) hours per day for more than three (3) children under the age of twelve (12) in a facility other than a home, 225 ILCS 10/2.09.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Daycare, In-Home:
Daycare, In-Home: Any in home childcare service licensed by the State Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS) which regularly provides care for less than twenty-four (24) hours per day for more than three (3) and up to a maximum of twelve (12) children under the age of twelve (12) in a home. The term does not include facilities which receive only children from a single household, 225 ILCS 10/2.09.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Daycare Facility, Part-Day:
Daycare Facility, Part-Day: Any facility licensed by the State Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS) and which is conducted by a church, religious organization or social service agency in which individual children are provided care, on an intermittent basis, for up to ten (10) hours per seven (7) day week. Any facility which provides intermittent care for up to ten (10) hours per seven (7) day week shall not provide such care for more than eight (8) hours in any given day during the seven (7) day week. Any facility which provides intermittent care for up to ten (10) hours per seven (7) day week shall provide at least one (1) caregiver per twenty (20) children, 225 ILCS 10/2.10.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Data Center:
Data Center: A facility comprised of networked computers, storage systems, and computing infrastructure which organizations use to assemble, process, store and disseminate data. Cryptocurrency centers, which use networked computers, storage systems, and computing infrastructure to manage the flow of digital or virtual currencies, shall be included in the definition.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Dead End Street:
Dead End Street: A street having only one (1) outlet.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Density, Gross:
Density, Gross: A ratio of the total number of dwelling units on a site, divided by the acreage of the site, to include streets, schools, parks, etc., expressed as dwelling units per acre.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Development:
Development: Any manmade change to real estate, including:
- 1.Preparation of a plat of subdivision;
- 2.Construction, reconstruction, or placement of a building or any addition to a building;
- 3.Installation of a manufactured home on a site, preparing a site for a manufactured home, or installing a travel trailer on a site for more than one hundred eighty (180) days;
- 4.Construction of roads, bridges, or similar projects;
- 5.Redevelopment of a site;
- 6.Filling, dredging, grading, clearing, excavating, paving, or other nonagricultural alterations of the ground surface;
- 7.Storage of materials, or deposit of solid or liquid waste;
- 8.Any other activity that might alter the magnitude, frequency, deviation, direction, or velocity of stormwater flows from a property.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
District:
District: A delineated section or part of the unincorporated portion of the City in which bulk, density, and use specific standards established in Chapter 4 apply.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Domesticated Hens:
Domesticated Hens: All life stages of the subspecies of the species Gallus Domesticus which are kept in an enclosure in the rear or side yard of a residentially zoned property as permitted and regulated in this title.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Drive-Through:
Drive-Through: A business or establishment which provides all or some of its services through a building opening or pickup window to its patrons who remain in their vehicles.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Driveway:
Driveway: A paved or unpaved private roadway providing vehicular access between the right-of-way of the street and a parking space, garage, dwelling or other structure.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Dry Cleaning Plant:
Dry Cleaning Plant: An establishment used for cleaning fabrics, textiles, wearing apparel, or articles of any sort by immersion and agitation, or by immersions only, in volatile solvents including, but not by way of limitation, solvents of the petroleum distillate type, and/or the chlorinated hydrocarbon type, and the processes incidental thereto.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Dry Cleaning Establishment:
Dry Cleaning Establishment: An establishment or business maintained for the pickup and delivery of dry cleaning and/or laundry without the maintenance or operation of any laundry or dry-cleaning equipment or machinery on the premises.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Dwelling:
Dwelling: A building or portion thereof, but not including a house trailer or mobile home, designed or used exclusively for residential occupancy, including single-family dwellings, duplex dwellings, townhomes and multi-family dwellings, but not including hotels, motels, boarding or lodging houses.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Dwelling, Duplex:
Dwelling, Duplex: A building designed or altered to provide dwelling units for occupancy by two (2) families within a single structure on separate lots, each of which has independent living quarters with direct access to the outside.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Dwelling, Group:
Dwelling, Group: A group of two (2) or more single-family, duplex, townhome and/or multi-family dwellings occupying a parcel of land under a single ownership and having a yard or court in common, excluding hotels and motels.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Dwelling, Multi-Family:
Dwelling, Multi-Family: A building or portion thereof, designed or altered for occupancy by two (2) or more household living independently of each other within a single or attached structure on one (1) lot, which may or may not share common entrances or other spaces and includes apartments, group homes, and condominiums.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Dwelling, Single-Family:
Dwelling, Single-Family: A dwelling unit designed exclusively for use and occupancy by one (1) household which is detached from any other dwelling unit and surrounded on all sides by open space on the same lot.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Dwelling, Townhouse:
Dwelling, Townhouse: A single-family dwelling unit constructed in a group of three (3) or more attached units on separate lots in which each unit extends from foundation to roof and with a yard or public way on at least two (2) sides.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Dwelling Unit:
Dwelling Unit: A housing unit providing complete independent living facilities for one (1) or more persons, including permanent provisions for living, sleeping, eating, cooking and sanitation.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Easement:
Easement: A grant by a property owner for the use of a parcel of land by the general public, a corporation, or a certain person or persons for a specific purpose or purposes.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Efficiency Unit:
Efficiency Unit: A dwelling unit consisting of one (1) principal room, exclusive of bathroom, kitchen, hallway, closets or dining alcove, directly off the principal room.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Electric Substation:
Electric Substation: An assemblage of equipment and appurtenant facilities designed for voltage transformation, or voltage control of electricity in amounts of 115,000 volts or more.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Enclosed:
Enclosed: A building separated on all sides from the adjacent open space, or from other buildings or other structures, by a permanent roof and by exterior walls or party walls, pierced only by windows and normal entrance or exit doors.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Entertainment Production Studios:
Entertainment Production Studios: A theater, audience area for motion pictures and television studios or other similar uses.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Erect:
Erect: The act of placing or affixing a component of a structure upon the ground or upon another such component.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Establishment, Business:
Establishment, Business: A separate place of business having the following three (3) characteristics:
- 1.The ownership and management of all operations conducted within such establishment is separate and distinct from the ownership and management of operations conducted within other establishments on the same or adjacent zoning lots.
- 2.Direct public access to such "business establishment" is separate and distinct from direct access to any other "business establishment".
- 3.There is no direct public access from within such establishment to any other such establishment.
- 4.When adjacent places of business lack any one (1) of the characteristics with respect to one another, they shall then be considered as a single "business establishment" for the purpose of this title.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
FAA:
FAA: The Federal Aviation Administration.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
FCC:
FCC: The Federal Communications Commission.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Farming/Cultivation:
Farming/Cultivation: The cultivation of berries, flowers, fruits, grains, herbs, mushrooms, nuts, ornamental plants, seedlings, or vegetables for use on-site or sale or distribution on-site or off-site.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Fence:
Fence: A structure, including gates, or tree or shrub hedge which is a barrier and used as a boundary or means of protection or confinement.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Fence, Open:
Fence, Open: A fence which has over its entirety at least fifty (50) percent of the surface area in open space as viewed at right angles from the fence; except, that the required open space in louver type fences may be viewed from any angle.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Fence, Solid:
Fence, Solid: A fence which conceals from view, from adjoining properties, streets or alleys, activities conducted behind it.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Filtration Plant:
Filtration Plant: A facility that works to filter and purify water by removing chemicals, hazardous materials, and toxic matters from a water source.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Financial Institutions and Services:
Financial Institutions and Services: A financial institution, or bank, is a structure that is open to the public and engaged in deposit banking, and that performs closely related functions such as making loans, investments, and fiduciary activities.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Fire Station:
Fire Station: A building used for the storage and maintenance of fire-fighting equipment.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Floodplain:
Floodplain: See Title 8, Chapter 7 of this Code.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Floor Area, Gross:
Floor Area, Gross: The sum of the gross horizontal areas of the all building floors, including the basement floor, measured from the exterior faces of the exterior walls or from the centerlines of walls separating two (2) buildings. The floor area shall also include the horizontal areas on each floor devoted to:
- 1.Elevator shafts and stairwells.
- 2.Mechanical equipment, except if located on the roof, when either open or enclosed, i.e., bulkheads, water tanks and cooling towers.
- 3.Habitable attic space as permitted by the building code.
- 4.Interior balconies and mezzanines.
- 5.Enclosed porches.
- 6.Accessory uses.
- 7.The floor area of structures used for bulk storage of materials, i.e., grain elevators and petroleum tanks, shall also be included in the floor area and such floor area shall be determined on the basis of the height of such structures with one (1) floor for each ten (10) feet of structure height and if such structure measures less than ten (10) feet but not less than five (5) feet over such floor height intervals, it shall be construed to have an additional floor. The horizontal area in each floor of a building devoted to off-street parking and off-street loading facilities shall not be included in the "floor area".
- 8.Floor area when prescribed as the basis of measurement for off-street parking spaces and off-street loading spaces for any use shall be the sum of the gross horizontal area of the several floors of the building, excluding areas used for accessory off-street parking facilities and the horizontal areas to the basement floors that are devoted exclusively to uses accessory to the operation of the entire building. All horizontal dimensions shall be taken from the exterior of the walls.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Floor Area, Net:
Floor Area, Net: The sum of the gross horizontal areas of the all building floors, including the basement floor, measured from the exterior faces of the exterior walls or from the centerlines of walls separating two (2) buildings. The "floor area" shall not include the horizontal areas on each floor devoted to:
- 1.Elevator shafts and stairwells.
- 2.Mechanical equipment, except if located on the roof, when either open or enclosed, i.e., bulkheads, water tanks and cooling towers.
- 3.Habitable attic space as permitted by the building code.
- 4.Interior balconies and mezzanines.
- 5.Enclosed porches.
- 6.Accessory uses.
- 7.The floor area of structures used for bulk storage of materials, i.e., grain elevators and petroleum tanks, shall also be included in the floor area and such floor area shall be determined on the basis of the height of such structures with one (1) floor for each ten (10) feet of structure height and if such structure measures less than ten (10) feet but not less than five (5) feet over such floor height intervals, it shall be construed to have an additional floor. The horizontal area in each floor of a building devoted to off-street parking and off-street loading facilities shall not be included in the "floor area".
- 8.Floor area when prescribed as the basis of measurement for off-street parking spaces and off-street loading spaces for any use shall be the sum of the gross horizontal area of the several floors of the building, excluding areas used for accessory off-street parking facilities and the horizontal areas to the basement floors that are devoted exclusively to uses accessory to the operation of the entire building. All horizontal dimensions shall be taken from the exterior of the walls.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Foot-Candle:
Foot-Candle: A unit of illumination, equivalent to the illumination at all points which are one (1) foot distant from a uniform point source of one (1) candlepower.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Forestation:
Forestation: The cultivation or keeping of existing mature trees as a principal use.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Freestanding Solar Energy System, Accessory Use:
Freestanding Solar Energy System, Accessory Use: A solar energy collection system and associated mounting hardware that is affixed to or placed upon the ground including but not limited to fixed, passive, or active tracking racking systems, constructed as the accessory use on a parcel, and not intended for the distribution and sale to a third party off-site.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Freestanding Solar Energy System, Principal Use:
Freestanding Solar Energy System, Principal Use: A single solar energy collection system and associated mounting hardware that is affixed to or placed upon the ground including but not limited to fixed, passive, or active tracking racking systems, constructed as the principal use on an individual parcel, intended to serve consumers located off the parcel.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Freestanding Wind Energy System, Accessory Use:
Freestanding Wind Energy System, Accessory Use: A wind turbine that is that is affixed to or placed upon the ground on a parcel with an existing principal use, to which the wind energy system is accessory and provides electricity to and not intended for the sale and distribution off-site.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Freestanding Wind Energy System, Principal Use:
Freestanding Wind Energy System, Principal Use: A wind turbine that is that is affixed to or placed upon the ground on a parcel as the parcel’s principal use but which does not distribute and sell energy to customers off-site.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Frequency:
Frequency: The number of oscillations per second in a sound wave, measuring the pitch of the resulting sound.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Frontage:
Frontage: The property on one (1) side of a street, between two (2) intersecting streets (crossing or terminating), measured along the line of the street; or, with a dead end street, all property abutting one (1) side of such street, measured from the nearest intersecting street and the end of the dead end street.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Frontage Street:
Frontage Street: A public or private marginal access roadway, generally paralleling and contiguous to a street or highway, and designed to promote safety by eliminating unlimited ingress and egress to such street or highway by providing points of ingress and egress at relatively uniform spaced intervals.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Front Façade:
Front Façade: The net surface area, excluding windows, doors and garages, that faces a street and includes a main entry to the building.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Funeral Home/Mortuary/Crematorium:
Funeral Home/Mortuary/Crematorium: A building used for the preparation of the deceased for burial and display of the deceased and rituals connected therewith before burial or cremation. A funeral home, as defined for purposes of this code, includes a funeral chapel.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Garage, Bus or Truck:
Garage, Bus or Truck: Any building used or intended to be used for the storage of three (3) or more passenger motor buses or motor coaches used in public transportation, excluding school buses.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Garage, Private:
Garage, Private: An accessory building or an accessory portion of the principal building which is intended for and used to store the private passenger vehicles of the family or families resident upon the premises, and in which no business, service or industry connected directly or indirectly with automotive vehicles is carried on.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Gasoline Service Station:
Gasoline Service Station: A place where gasoline, stored only in underground tanks, kerosene, lubricating oil or grease, for operation of automobiles, are offered for sale directly to the public on the premises, and including minor accessories and the services of automobiles, mechanical or manual washing of automobiles, but not including major automobile repairs. Gasoline service stations shall not include sale or storage of automobiles or trailers (new or used).
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Golf Course, Miniature:
Golf Course, Miniature: A novelty version of golf played with a putter and golf ball on a miniature course, typically theme oriented with artificial playing surfaces and including obstacles such as bridges and tunnels.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Golf Course:
Golf Course: A facility providing a private or public golf recreation area designed for regulation play along with accessory golf support facilities including golf related retail sales, restaurant, golf driving range but excluding miniature golf.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Golf Driving Range:
Golf Driving Range: An area equipped with distance markers, clubs, balls and tees for practicing golf drives and putting which may include incidental retail sales and food services, but excludes miniature golf.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Grain Elevator and Storage:
Grain Elevator and Storage: A building designed to stockpile or store grain. Grain silos, which are vertical buildings, typically circular, used for the storage of grain, as well as grain elevators, which are used to convey grain to the top of a silo or storage building shall be included.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Grade:
Grade: The established grade of the street or sidewalk. Where no such grade has been established, the grade shall be the elevation of the sidewalk at the property line. Where no sidewalks exist, the grade shall be the average elevation of the street adjacent to the property line. Except in cases of unusual topographic conditions, as determined by the Zoning Administrator or their designee, grade shall be the average elevation of the finished surface of the ground adjoining the exterior walls of a building at the base of a structure based upon any technical advice that the Zoning Administrator or their designee deems necessary.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Health and Fitness Club/Center:
Health and Fitness Club/Center: A facility which provides for individual or group exercise activities. Programs may include, but are not limited to aerobics, calisthenics, weight training, running, swimming, court games, studio lessons and all types of instructional classes related to physical fitness. Health and fitness clubs/centers may offer a variety of recreational and fitness amenities such as weightlifting machines, free weights, swimming pools, gymnasiums, studios, sport courts, shower and changing areas and may include incidental uses such as childcare facilities, food services, saunas, and pro shops oriented towards customers during their use of the club/center.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Heavy Machinery and Equipment Sales Rental:
Heavy Machinery and Equipment Sales Rental: An establishment engaged in the sale or rental of equipment, dump trucks, tractor and trailer rigs, and similar vehicles not ordinarily used for personal transportation.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Height:
Height: When referring to a tower or other structure, the distance measured from the finished grade of the parcel to the highest point on the tower or other structure, including the base pad and antenna structures.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Home Occupation:
Home Occupation: An accessory use of a residential dwelling unit which complies with the requirements of Section 10-4-15(F) of this title.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Hospital:
Hospital: An institution devoted primarily to the maintenance and operation of facilities for the diagnosis, treatment, or care, for not less than twenty-four (24) hours in any week, of three (3) or more nonrelated individuals suffering from illness, disease, injury, deformity, or other abnormal physical conditions. The term "hospital", as used in this title, does not apply to institutions operating solely for the treatment of mentally ill or chemically dependent persons, or other types of cases necessitating restraint of patients, and the term "hospital" shall not be used for convalescent, nursing, shelter, or boarding homes.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Hotel:
Hotel: An establishment containing lodging accommodations designed for use by temporary guests in which access to guest rooms is through a common entryway or lobby. Facilities provided may include maid service, laundering of linen used on the premises, telephone and secretarial or desk service, restaurants, cocktail lounges, meeting rooms and ancillary retail uses, provided access to such uses are from the exterior of the principal use.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Household:
Household: All the people that occupy a single dwelling unit regardless of their relationship to one another.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Improvements:
Improvements: All facilities constructed or erected by a subdivider within a subdivision, to permit and facilitate the use of lots or blocks for a principal residential, business, or manufacturing purpose.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Interlocking Standard Parking Spaces:
Interlocking Standard Parking Spaces: A configuration of off-street parking in columns in which the parking spaces in each individual column are angled to create an interlocking pattern with the angled off-street parking spaces in the adjoining column.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Invasive Species:
Invasive Species: An invasive species means any species non-native to the ecosystems of northeast Illinois whose introduction will or may cause economic or environmental harm to the function of the natural ecosystem.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Kennel, Commercial or Private Dog Kennel:
Kennel, Commercial or Private Dog Kennel: Any lot or premises or portion thereof on which more than four (4) dogs, cats, and other household domestic animals, over four (4) months of age, are kept for sale, or on which more than two (2) such animals are boarded for compensation.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Laboratory, Commercial:
Laboratory, Commercial: A place devoted to experimental study such as testing and analyzing. Manufacturing assembly or packaging of products is not included within this definition.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Land Banking:
Land Banking: Land that is part of a single lot or development that is set aside or reserved for a later approved use or development.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Land Improvement:
Land Improvement: All required on-site and off-site subdivision improvements including, but not limited to, any sanitary sewage system, water distribution system, storm drainage systems, public utility systems, sidewalk systems, public or private streets, street lighting, street signs, grading and drainageway facilities, pedestrian ways, and retention and detention basins.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Library:
Library: A public facility for the use, but not sale, of literary, musical, artistic, or reference materials.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Liquor Store:
Liquor Store: A business engaged primarily in the retail sale of beer, wine, spirits or other alcoholic beverages for off-premise consumption.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Loading and Unloading Space, Off-Street:
Loading and Unloading Space, Off-Street: An open, hard surfaced area of land other than a street or public way, the principal use of which is for the standing, loading and unloading of motor vehicles, tractors and trailers to avoid undue interference with public streets and alleys. Such space shall not be less than ten (10) feet in width, twenty-five (25) feet in length and fourteen (14) feet in height, exclusive of access aisles and maneuvering space.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Lookout Basement:
Lookout Basement: A story having more than one-half (½) of its height below the curb level or below the highest level of the adjoining grade. A lookout basement shall not be counted as a story for the purposes of height measurement.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Lot:
Lot: A portion of a subdivision or other parcel of land, intended for transfer of ownership, or for building developments.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Lot Area:
Lot Area: The area of a horizontal plane bounded by the front, side and rear lot lines.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Lot, Corner:
Lot, Corner: A lot situated at the junction of and abutting on two (2) or more intersecting streets; or a lot at the point of deflection in alignment of a single street, the interior angle of which is one hundred thirty-five (135) degrees or less.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Lot Coverage:
Lot Coverage: The area of a zoning lot occupied by the principal building or buildings, accessory buildings and all other impervious areas such as driveways, roads, sidewalks, parking lots and structures, and any area of concrete or asphalt.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Lot Depth:
Lot Depth: The distance between the midpoint of the front lot line and the midpoint of the rear lot line.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Lot, Double Frontage:
Lot, Double Frontage: A lot, two (2) opposite lot lines of which abut upon streets which are more or less parallel.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Lot, Flag:
Lot, Flag: A lot not fronting or abutting a public roadway and where access to the public roadway is limited to a narrow driveway or strip of land between abutting lots, thereby not meeting the minimum lot frontage requirements.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Lot Frontage:
Lot Frontage: The front of a lot shall be that boundary of a lot along a public or private street; for a corner lot, the front shall be the narrowest side of the lot fronting upon a street; provided that the owner may orient the building toward either street but once frontage is established it shall be maintained.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Lot, Interior:
Lot, Interior: A lot other than a corner lot or reversed corner lot.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Lot Line:
Lot Line: A property boundary line of any lot held in single or separate ownership; except, that where any portion of the lot extends into the abutting street or alley, the lot line shall be deemed to be the street or alley line.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Lot Line, Front:
Lot Line, Front: A lot line which abuts a street shall be the front lot line. For corner lots, the narrowest side of the lot fronting upon a street shall be considered the front of the lot; provided that the owner may orient the building toward either street but once frontage is established it shall be maintained.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Lot Line, Interior:
Lot Line, Interior: A side lot line common with another lot.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Lot Line, Rear:
Lot Line, Rear: The rear lot line is the lot line or lot lines most nearly parallel to and more remote from the front lot line.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Lot Line, Side:
Lot Line, Side: Lot lines other than front or rear lot lines are side lot lines.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Lot of Record:
Lot of Record: A lot which is a part of a subdivision or a parcel of land described by deed and where both the map and the deed were recorded in the Office of the County Recorder.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Lot, Reversed Corner:
Lot, Reversed Corner: A corner lot, the rear of which abuts upon the side of another lot, whether across an alley or not.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Lot, Through:
Lot, Through: A lot having frontage on two (2) parallel or approximately parallel streets, and which is not a corner lot. On a through lot, both street lines shall be deemed front lot lines.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Lot Width:
Lot Width: The mean horizontal distance between the side lot lines measured within the lot boundaries, or the minimum distance between the side lot lines within the buildable area.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Lot, Zoning:
Lot, Zoning: A plot of ground made up of one (1) or more contiguous parcels which are under single ownership and may be occupied by a use, building or buildings, including the yards and open spaces required by this title.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Major Architectural Features:
Major Architectural Features: Covered porches, boxed out bays/projections, decorative dormers, Juliet balconies, metal roofs (ten [10] percent credit for each).
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Manufacturer, Firearms and Ammunition:
Manufacturer, Firearms and Ammunition: Any person or entity in: a) the business of transporting, shipping and receiving firearms and ammunition for the purpose of sale or distribution, b) selling firearms at wholesale or retail, c) repairing firearms or making or fitting special barrels, stocks or trigger mechanisms to firearms and operating under the provisions of the applicable local, state and federal licenses.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Manufacturing:
Manufacturing: An establishment, the principal use of which is manufacturing, fabricating, processing, assembly, repairing, storing, cleaning, servicing or testing of materials, goods or products.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Masonry Products:
Masonry Products: Brick, stone, split face brick, or architectural blocks.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Massage Establishment:
Massage Establishment: Any establishment having a source of income or compensation derived from the practice of "massage" as defined in section 10 of the Massage Licensing Act, 225 ILCS 57/10 and which has a fixed place of business where any person, firm, association or corporation engages in or carries on any of the activities defined in title 3, chapter 9, "Massage Establishments", of this Code.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Medical Clinic/Office:
Medical Clinic/Office: An establishment where patients are admitted for study and treatment by two (2) or more licensed physicians, dentists, psychologists, or similar professional healthcare practitioners and their professional associates. The term shall include but not be limited to offices of physicians, chiropractors, dentists, and acupuncturists.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Microbrewery/Microwinery:
Microbrewery/Microwinery: A combination retail, wholesale, and/or small-scale artisan manufacturing business that brews, ferments, processes, packages, distributes, and serves either beer or wine for sale on- or off-site. A microbrewery shall produce no more than one-hundred fifty-five thousand (155,000) gallons of beer per year for sale on the premises for either on-premises or off-premises consumption. These facilities may include an ancillary tasting room and retail component in which guests/customers may sample and purchase the product. Off-site distribution of the beverages shall be consistent with state law.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Microdistillery:
Microdistillery: A small scale artisan manufacturing business that blends, ferments, processes, packages, distributes and serves alcoholic spirits on and off the premises and produces no more than fifteen thousand (15,000) gallons per calendar year on-site. The microdistillery facility may include an ancillary tasting room and retail component in which guests/customers may sample and purchase the product. Off-site distribution of the alcoholic beverages shall be consistent with state law.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Mobile Food Vendor Vehicles and Retail Vendor Vehicles:
Mobile Food Vendor Vehicles and Retail Vendor Vehicles: A motorized vehicle used to conduct a mobile food preparer business, a mobile food dispenser, or mobile desserts vendor business.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Mobile Home:
Mobile Home: A manufactured home structure transportable in one (1) or more sections, which in the traveling mode is eight (8) body feet or more in width and forty (40) body feet or more in length or when erected on-site is three hundred twenty (320) square feet or more and which is built on a permanent chassis and designed to be used as a dwelling unit with or without a permanent foundation when connected to the required utilities, and includes the plumbing, heating, air conditioning and electrical systems that may be contained therein; except that such term shall include any structure that meets all the requirements of this definition except the size requirements and with respect to which the manufacturer voluntarily files a certification required by the Secretary (HUD) and complies with the standards established under this title. For manufactured homes built prior to June 15, 1976, a label certifying compliance to the standard for mobile homes, NFPA 501, in effect at the time of manufacture is required.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Mobile Home Park:
Mobile Home Park: A lot, parcel or tract of land developed with facilities for accommodating two (2) or more mobile homes, provided each mobile home contains a kitchen, flush toilet and shower or bath; and such park shall be for use only by nontransient dwellers remaining continuously for more than one (1) month, whether a charge is made. It shall not include a sales lot in which automobiles or unoccupied mobile homes or other trailers are parked for the purpose of inspection or sale, except mobile homes located on a site in the mobile home park which are occupied or vacant for not more than ninety (90) days after occupancy may be sold or offered for sale.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Modular Construction:
Modular Construction: A structure not built on-site, but which is placed on a permanent foundation and meets building code requirements.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Motel:
Motel: A building or group of buildings on the same lot containing guest units consisting of individual sleeping quarters, detached or in connecting rows, with or without cooking facilities, for short-term rental, in which each guest unit is accessed through the building’s exterior rather than through a common lobby.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Motor Freight Terminal:
Motor Freight Terminal: A building in which freight, brought to said building by motor truck, is assembled and sorted for routing in intrastate and interstate shipment by motor truck.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Motor Vehicle:
Motor Vehicle: A passenger automobile/vehicle, truck, truck trailer, trailer or semitrailer propelled or drawn by mechanical power.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Native Species:
Native Species: A plant or animal species that originates from the ecosystems of northeast Illinois. Non-invasive species of ornamental plants shall be included within the definition for the purposes of this UDO.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Newspaper Publishing:
Newspaper Publishing: An establishment in which the principal business consists of duplicating and printing services of newspapers using photocopy, blueprint, or offset printing equipment, including publishing, binding, and engraving.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Nonconforming Use:
Nonconforming Use: Any building, structure or land lawfully occupied by use or lawfully established which does not conform to the current regulations of the zoning ordinance.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
No-Impact Antenna and Towers:
No-Impact Antenna and Towers: A tower or antenna which is either: a) virtually invisible to the casual observer, such as an antenna behind louvers on a building, or inside a steeple or similar structure, or b) camouflaged so as to blend in with its surroundings to such an extent that it is no more obtrusive to the casual observer than the structure on which it is: 1) placed, such as a rooftop, lighting standard, or existing tower, or 2) replacing, such as a school athletic field light standard.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Noxious Matter:
Noxious Matter: Material which is capable of causing injury to living organisms by chemical reaction or is capable of causing detrimental effects upon the physical, social or economic well-being of human beings.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Nursery/Greenhouse:
Nursery/Greenhouse: Retail business whose principal activity is the selling of plants and having outdoor storage, growing and/or display of plants.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Odorous Matter:
Odorous Matter: Any material that produces an olfactory response among human beings.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Office:
Office: A place, such as a building, room, or suite, in which services, clerical work, professional duties or the like are carried out.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Open Space:
Open Space: Ground area of a lot, landscaping and recreational facilities may qualify as open space provided that it is an area unobstructed from the ground to the sky and which:
- 1.Is not devoted to public or private roadways or driveways and off-street parking and loading;
- 2.Is accessible and available only to occupants of dwelling units on the premises, except balconies;
- 3.Is not covered by buildings, except not more than five (5) percent of the required open space may be recreational facilities enclosed within a building for the use of occupants of the dwelling units on the premises;
- 4.Has not less than ten (10) feet its narrowest dimension between either a lot line and an area not qualifying as usable open space; and
- 5.Is developed, landscaped, and maintained suitable for pedestrian, recreational and leisure use.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Outdoor Displays:
Outdoor Displays: Areas where the majority of items for sale to the general public are displayed outdoors, such as garden nurseries, vehicle and equipment sales lots, mobile home sales, play equipment sales and other similar uses.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Outdoor Music Venue:
Outdoor Music Venue: A property where sound equipment is used to amplify sound that is not fully enclosed by permanent, solid walls or roof.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Outline Lighting:
Outline Lighting: An arrangement of incandescent lamps or electric discharge tubing that outlines or calls attention to certain features of a building or sign including but not limited to its shape not to include temporary holiday decor.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Parapet:
Parapet: An architectural feature of a building where that portion of an exterior wall extends above the roof deck.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Parcel:
Parcel: Shall refer broadly to a lot, tract, or any other piece of land.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Park:
Park: An area open to the general public and reserved for recreational, educational, or scenic purposes.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Parking Area or Lot:
Parking Area or Lot: An open, hard-surfaced area, designed, arranged and made available for the storage of private passenger automobiles only of occupants of the building or buildings for which the parking area is developed and is accessory.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Parking Space:
Parking Space: Space within a public or private parking area designed in conformance with Section 10-5-1(E) of this title, exclusive of access drives, or aisles, ramps, columns or office and work areas, for the storage of one (1) passenger automobile or commercial vehicle under one and one-half (1½) tons' capacity.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Parking Structure:
Parking Structure: An attached or detached structure that is fully or partially enclosed with one (1) or more levels and is used exclusively for the parking or storage of motor vehicles. This does not include private one-story garages for single-, two-, or multi-family residential uses. Parking structures may either be above or below grade.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Parkway:
Parkway: A strip of land situated within the dedicated street right-of-way, either located between the roadway and right-of-way line, or a median located between the roadways.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Pawnbroker/Pawnshop:
Pawnbroker/Pawnshop: Any person who lends money on deposit or pledge of personal property, or deals in the purchase of personal property on condition of selling the same back at a stipulated price, or who publicly displays at his or her place of business the sign generally used by pawnbrokers to denote the pawnbroker's business, or who publicly displays a sign which indicates, in substance, a business on the premises which "loans money for personal property, or deposit or pledge". The business of a pawnbroker shall not include the lending of money on deposit or pledge of title to property.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Place of Worship/Assembly:
Place of Worship/Assembly: A building, together with its accessory buildings and uses, where persons regularly assemble for religious purposes and related social events and which building and accessory buildings and uses are maintained and controlled by a religious body organized to sustain religious ceremonies and purposes.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Plan Council:
Plan Council: The Plan Council of the City of Yorkville.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Planning and Zoning Commission:
Planning and Zoning Commission: The Planning and Zoning Commission of the City of Yorkville.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Plan, Concept:
Plan, Concept: A tentative map or drawing which indicates the subdivider's proposed layout of a subdivision, including a site plan indicating existing off-site roadway connections.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Plan, Final:
Plan, Final: The final engineering plan, map or drawing, plus all accompanying information required by this title.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Plan, Preliminary:
Plan, Preliminary: The preliminary engineering plan, map, or drawing, plus all accompanying information required by this title.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Plat:
Plat: A subdivision as it is represented as a formal document by drawing and writing.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Plat, Final:
Plat, Final: The final map drawing or chart, on which the subdivider's layout of a subdivision is presented to the City Council for approval, and which, if approved, will be submitted to the County Recorder for recording.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Plat, Preliminary:
Plat, Preliminary: A tentative map or drawing, which indicates the subdivider's proposed layout of a subdivision, including all proposed improvements.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Playground:
Playground: An area open to the public for recreational use primarily for children.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Police Station:
Police Station: Protection centers operated by a governmental agency, including administrative offices, storage of equipment, temporary detention facilities, and the open or enclosed parking of patrol vehicles, excluding correctional institutions.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Porch:
Porch: A roofed over structure, projecting out from the wall or walls of a main structure and commonly open to the weather in part.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Portable Outdoor Storage Device:
Portable Outdoor Storage Device: Any item designed and used as follows: a container which is delivered to a property, which is filled with household items or other nontrash materials, and which the container and its contents are subsequently transported to another location.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Post Office:
Post Office: A facility that contains service windows for mailing packages and letters, post office boxes, offices, vehicle storage areas, and sorting and distribution facilities for mail.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Preexisting Towers or Antennas:
Preexisting Towers or Antennas: Existing towers and existing antennas which predated this title, shall not be required to meet the requirements of this chapter other than the requirements of Section 10-4-14(A)(2)(f), (A)(2)(h), and (A)(2)(r) of this chapter. All preexisting towers and antennas shall be subject to the tower and antenna administrative fee.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Premium Siding Material:
Premium Siding Material: Masonry products, cultured stone, natural wood siding and synthetic stucco.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Prepared Food Service Establishment:
Prepared Food Service Establishment: An establishment that makes prepared food available for sale to the general public for immediate consumption on or off the premises.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Preschool:
Preschool: A school for children primarily between the ages of three (3) and five (5), providing preparation for elementary school.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Principal Use:
Principal Use: The main use of land or buildings as distinguished from a subordinate or accessory use.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Professional Care Services:
Professional Care Services: Establishments which provide individual services on a frequent or recurrent basis to the consumer at the site of the business. The term shall include, but shall not be limited to, beauty salons, hair salons, microblading, nail salons, and similar establishments.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Professional Services/Offices:
Professional Services/Offices: A business which is engaged in the processing, manipulation, or application of business information or professional expertise. The use shall include but not be limited to professional offices for nonprofit organizations, accounting, insurance, investment services, computer services, architecture, engineering, legal services, real estate services.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Public Open Space:
Public Open Space: Any publicly owned open area, including, but not limited to, the following: parks, playgrounds, forest preserves, beaches, waterways, parkways and streets.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Storage, Indoor Single-Building Climate Controlled:
Storage, Indoor Single-Building Climate Controlled: A facility consisting of a single building where individual self-contained units are leased or rented to the general public for dead storage and where the individual storage units are accessed from the interior of the building.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Storage, Outdoor Self-Storage:
Storage, Outdoor Self-Storage: A facility consisting of a building or group of buildings in which individual self-contained units are leased or rented to the general public for storage and where the individual storage units are accessed from the exterior of the building.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Public Utility:
Public Utility: Any person, firm, corporation or municipal department duly authorized to furnish, under public regulation, to the public, electricity, gas, steam, telephone, sewers, transportation or water.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Public Utility Facility (other):
Public Utility Facility (other): A public utility as defined in this UDO engaged in activities other than electric substations or distribution centers, gas regulation centers, and underground gas holder stations.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Railroad Passenger Station:
Railroad Passenger Station: A facility for the boarding of passengers and related ticketing sales and offices.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Railroad Repair Shop, Maintenance Building, and Switching Yard:
Railroad Repair Shop, Maintenance Building, and Switching Yard: The use of land, buildings and structures for equipment and supplies related to the repair of rail railroad facilities or an area used for the storing and switching of freight and passenger rolling stock.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Railroad Right-of-Way:
Railroad Right-of-Way: A strip of land with tracks and auxiliary facilities for track operation, but not including depot loading platforms, stations, train sheds, warehouses, car shops, car yards, locomotive shops, water towers, etc.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Radio and Television Towers, Commercial:
Radio and Television Towers, Commercial: Any structure that is designed and constructed primarily for the purpose of supporting one (1) or more antennas for commercial radio or television purposes, including self-supporting lattice towers, guyed towers, or monopole towers. The term includes the structure and any support thereto.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Recreation Center:
Recreation Center: A building or structure used as a place of recreation, generally open to the public and designed to accommodate and serve significant segments of the community.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Recreational Camp, Private:
Recreational Camp, Private: An establishment consisting of permanent buildings used periodically by an association of persons where seasonal accommodations for recreational purposes are provided only to the members of such association and not to anyone who may apply.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Recreational Vehicle Sales and Service:
Recreational Vehicle Sales and Service: An establishment engaged in the sale of recreational vehicles, including motorhomes and pickup campers, travel trailers, tent trailers, and similar vehicles that are designed and constructed for permit sleeping or housekeeping in an outdoor or an showroom enclosed in a primary building.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Recreational Vehicle, Trailer, and Boat Parking:
Recreational Vehicle, Trailer, and Boat Parking: A site intended for the semi-permanent parking of recreational vehicles, trailers, or boats.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Refrigerated Warehouse (Cold Storage):
Refrigerated Warehouse (Cold Storage): A facility which is artificially or mechanically cooled in order to maintain the integrity and quality of perishable goods.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Refuse:
Refuse: All waste products resulting from human habitation, except sewage.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Research Laboratory:
Research Laboratory: A building or group of buildings in which are located facilities for scientific research, investigation, testing or experimentation, but not facilities for the manufacture or sale of products, except as incidental to the main purpose of the laboratory.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Restaurant:
Restaurant: An establishment whose food is available to the general public typically for consumption on the premises. The term may include fast food restaurants in which food is available through drive-throughs as defined in this UDO, has a limited menu of items consisting of prepackaged or quickly prepared items; where food is ordered and picked up at a counter with no table service provided; where food is served in a limited dine-in area; or which is usually part of a chain or franchise establishment. The term may also include fast casual dining with one (1) or more of the following characteristics; a limited menu items are made to order and are prepared only upon request; food is either ordered and picked up at a counter or served at the patron's table in a limited dine in area; and is usually part of a chain or franchise establishment.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Residence
Residence: The act or condition of residing or dwelling in a place.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Retail Store:
Retail Store: A building or portion of a building providing area for the selling of new or used goods, wares, and merchandise directly to the consumer for whom the goods are furnished.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Riding Academies With Stables:
Riding Academies With Stables: An establishment including associated stables where horses are boarded and cared for, and where instruction in riding, jumping, and showing is offered, and where horses may be hired for riding.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Right-of-Way:
Right-of-Way: A strip of land occupied or intended to be occupied by a road, crosswalk, railroad, electric transmission line, oil or gas pipeline, water main, sanitary or storm sewer main, or for another special use. The usage of the term "right-of-way" for land platting purposes in the United City of Yorkville shall mean that every right-of-way hereafter established and shown on a final recorded plat is to be separate and distinct from the lots or parcels adjoining such right-of-way, and not included within the dimensions or areas of such lots or parcels. Rights-of-way intended for roads, crosswalks, water mains, sanitary sewers, storm drains, or any other use involving maintenance by a public agency shall be dedicated to public use by the maker of the plat on which such right-of-way is established.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Riding Academy:
Riding Academy: An establishment where horses are boarded and cared for, and where instruction in riding, jumping, and showing is offered, and where horses may be hired for riding.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Roadside Stand:
Roadside Stand: A temporary structure which is used solely for the display or sale of farm produce and related materials. No roadside stand shall be more than three hundred (300) square feet in ground area and there shall be no more than one (1) roadside stand on any one (1) premises.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Roadway:
Roadway: That portion of a street which is used or intended to be used for the travel of motor vehicles.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Salvage Yard:
Salvage Yard: Any location whose primary use is where waste or scrap materials are stored, bought, sold, accumulated, exchanged, packaged, disassembled, or handled, including but not limited to materials such as scrap metals, paper, rags, tires, and bottles.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Sanitary Landfill:
Sanitary Landfill: A lot or part thereof used primarily for the disposal by abandonment, dumping, burial, burning, or other means and for whatever purpose, of garbage, sewage, trash, refuse, junk, discarded machinery, vehicles or parts thereof, or nontoxic waste material of any kind.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
School, Public or Private:
School, Public or Private: Elementary, high school or college, public or private, or nonprofit junior college, college or university, other than trade, commercial and business schools, including instructional and recreational uses, with or without living quarters, dining rooms, restaurants, heating plants and other incidental facilities for students, teachers and employees. These schools typically contain an auditorium, gymnasium, cafeteria, or other recreational facilities.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Senior Housing, Dependent:
Senior Housing, Dependent: A building or collection of buildings, of any building type, containing dwelling units for senior adults or persons with disabilities. Dependent senior housing includes on-site support services and amenities assisted by staff. The daily amenities and services provided in dependent senior housing include meals, day care, personal care, medical support, nursing or therapy, and any service to the senior adult or disabled population of the community that is an ancillary part of one of these operations. Support services may be located either in the same structure as the dwelling units or in a structure physically separated from the dependent living dwelling units.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Senior Housing, Independent:
Senior Housing, Independent: A building or collection of buildings, of any building type, containing dwelling units for senior adults or persons with disabilities. Independent senior housing may include on-site support services such as meal preparation and service, day care, nursing or therapy, or any service to the senior adult or disabled population of the community that is an ancillary part of one of these operations. Support services may be located either in the same structure as the dwelling units or in a structure physically separated from the independent living dwelling units.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Semi-Truck:
Semi-Truck: A tractor unit which is used to tow or move semi- trailers. A semi-truck typically has two (2) or three (3) axles and is built for hauling large amounts of products, goods, and heavy machinery.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Semi-Truck Repair:
Semi-Truck Repair: Engine rebuilding or major reconditioning of worn or damaged semi-trucks; collision service, including body, frame or fender straightening or repair and painting including incidentals repairs, replacement of parts and motor service to semi-trucks.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Service Drive:
Service Drive: A public street, generally paralleling and contiguous to a main traveled way, primarily designed to promote safety by eliminating promiscuous ingress and egress to the right-of-way, and providing safe and orderly points of access at fairly uniformly spaced intervals.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Setback:
Setback: The minimum distance maintained between a street right-of-way and the nearest supporting member of any structure on the lot, except where otherwise regulated in this title.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Setback, Established:
Setback, Established: When forty (40) percent or more of the lots fronting on one (1) side of a street within a block are improved, the average of all the existing front setbacks of such improved lots shall be the "established setback" for determining the depth of the minimum required front setbacks for the remainder of the lots along such street frontage, as regulated in this title.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Setback Line, Building:
Setback Line, Building: See definition of building setback line.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Sewage Disposal System, Central:
Sewage Disposal System, Central: A system of sanitary sewers, serving ten (10) or more lots that discharge either into an interceptor sewer or an approved sewage treatment plant.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Sewage Disposal System, Individual:
Sewage Disposal System, Individual: A sewage disposal system, or any other sewage treatment device approved by the Kendall County Department of Public Health, and servicing only one (1) lot.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Sewage Treatment Plant:
Sewage Treatment Plant: A facility which operates a sewerage system and sewage treatment facilities that collect, treat, and disposal of human waste.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Shooting Gallery/Gun Range, Indoor:
Shooting Gallery/Gun Range, Indoor: An enclosed facility, public or private, specifically for the purpose of providing a place in which to discharge various types of firearms, shoot air guns and/or archery equipment at designated targets and designed to contain all projectiles fired within the confines of the building. Auxiliary training and instructional classroom facilities may also be provided, as well as ancillary retail sales of firearms, ammunition, and associated products upon proof of applicable local, state, and federal licensure.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Short-Term Rental:
Short-Term Rental: A home occupation of a single-family dwelling that is used as a primary residence by owners or renters, or a portion of such a dwelling unit that is rented for less than thirty (30) days at a time to transients and temporary guests.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Sidewalk:
Sidewalk: That portion of street or crosswalk way, paved or otherwise surfaced, intended for pedestrian use only.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Sign:
Sign: Any identification, illustration, means of communication, or device, illuminated or non-illuminated, that is visible from any public place or is located on private property and exposed to the public and that is intended to direct attention, advertise, announce, communicate, declare, demonstrate, or display a particular use, product, service, idea, interest, or message.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Sign Area:
Sign Area: Sign area shall apply to single-tenant monument signs, multi-tenant monument signs, on-site traffic directional signs, a-frame/sandwich board signs, and/or yard signs only. Sign area shall be computed by means of the smallest square, rectangle, circle, triangle or combination thereof that shall encompass the extreme limits of the sign copy area and the sign base area. Sign area shall not include any supporting framework, bracing, decorative fence, or wall when such fence or wall otherwise meets UDO regulations and is clearly incidental to the display itself. A double faced sign shall count as a single sign. Sign area for wall signs on buildings with multiple exterior walls shall be calculated as provided in Section 10-6-3(B).
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Sign, Awning/Canopy:
Sign, Awning/Canopy: A sign wholly supported by a canopy projecting from a building or an extended roof or pitched roof and which does not extend above the mean height level of the roof of the building.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Sign, A-Frame/Sandwich Board:
Sign, A-Frame/Sandwich Board: An advertising or business ground sign constructed in such a manner as to form an “A” or a tent-like shape, hinged or not hinged at the top; each angular face held at an appropriate distance by a supporting member.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Sign, Cold Air Inflatable:
Sign, Cold Air Inflatable: A sign designed to be airborne and tethered to the ground, a vehicle or any other structure and shall include balloons and any other inflatable advertising device.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Sign, Banner:
Sign, Banner: A temporary advertising sign which is not attached to a permanently mounted backing. Banner signs may be ground-mounted or wall-mounted.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Sign, Billboard:
Sign, Billboard: Any sign advertising a land use, business, product or service, not located or available upon the premises whereon the sign is located.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Sign, Feather:
Sign, Feather: A flexible or rigid pole to which one (1) side of a flexible fabric, generally in the shape of a feather or similar shape, is attached, and which upon which temporary sign copy is displayed. Such banners are also known and sold under names which include, but are not limited to, “quill sign,” “banana banner,” “blade banner,” “flutter banner,” “flutter flag,” “bowflag,” “teardrop banners,” and others. The definition includes functionally similar display devices.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Sign, Monument:
Sign, Monument: A freestanding sign in which the entire bottom is in contact with or close to the ground.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Sign, On-Site Traffic Directional:
Sign, On-Site Traffic Directional: A sign on a lot that directs the movement or placement of pedestrian or vehicular traffic with or without reference to, or inclusion of, the name of a product sold or service performed on the lot or in a building, structure or business enterprise occupying the same.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Sign, Post:
Sign, Post: A temporary sign, the face of which is affixed to a post installed on the ground.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Sign, Projecting:
Sign, Projecting: A sign that projects perpendicular from a building more than twelve (12) inches from the building’s supporting wall.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Sign, Roof:
Sign, Roof: A sign which is affixed to a roof, extended roof, pitched roof or canopy and which extends above the mean height of the roof.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Sign, Wall:
Sign, Wall: A sign affixed to a building wall which does not project horizontally more than twelve (12) inches from the wall nor extend above the height of the wall.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Sign, Window:
Sign, Window: A sign which is applied or attached to the exterior of a window, or applied to, attached to, or located within one (1) foot of the interior of a window, which can be seen through the window from the exterior of the structure.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Skating Rink:
Skating Rink: An establishment that provides facilities for participant skating.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Small Wireless Facility:
Small Wireless Facility: A wireless facility that meets both of the following qualifications: a) each antenna is located inside an enclosure of no more than six (6) cubic feet in volume or, in the case of an antenna that has exposed elements, the antenna and all of its exposed elements could fit within an imaginary enclosure of no more than six (6) cubic feet; and b) all other wireless equipment attached directly to a utility pole associated with the facility is cumulatively no more than twenty-five (25) cubic feet in volume. The following types of associated ancillary equipment are not included in the calculation of equipment volume: electric meter, concealment elements, telecommunications demarcation box, ground-based enclosures, grounding equipment, power transfer switch, cut-off switch, and vertical cable runs for the connection of power and other services. Small wireless facilities are permitted uses if they are collocated in right-of-way in any zoning district or outside rights-of-way in property zoned exclusively for commercial or industrial use.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Smoke:
Smoke: Small gas borne particles other than water that form a visible plume in the air.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Solar Farm:
Solar Farm: An installation that includes a large number of solar panels arranged contiguously on a parcel for the collection of solar energy and intended for the sale and distribution of electricity to customers located off-site.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Solid Waste Disposal Site:
Solid Waste Disposal Site: A facility for the purpose of treating, compacting, composting, storing, or disposing of solid waste.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Stable/Paddocks:
Stable/Paddocks: A building and grounds which are designed, arranged, used or intended to be used for the storage, boarding or breeding of horses, including accessory uses which may include riding and horsemanship instructions and the hire of riding horses.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Stacking Requirements:
Stacking Requirements: The specified number of cars that must be accommodated in a reservoir space while awaiting ingress or egress to specified business or service establishments.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Stadium:
Stadium: Any facility, building, corral, arena, or structure of any kind designed for use as either a sports facility (including animal sports, i.e., rodeos, horseraces, etc.), entertainment facility, whether for profit or not, where activities are to be undertaken generally for the entertainment of others. Said description includes ball fields, when any type of structure is involved, skating rinks, racetracks, football or soccer fields, softball fields, gymnasiums, swimming facilities, music halls, theaters, stages or any other type of field or facility.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Storage of Roadway Construction Materials and Equipment:
Storage of Roadway Construction Materials and Equipment: A facility that stores any equipment which is used in connection with the construction, alteration, excavation or repair of a building or of real property, including, but not limited to front loaders, trailers, cranes, plows, bulldozers and other similar equipment.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Story:
Story: That portion of a building included between the surface of any floor and the surface of the floor above it, or if there is no floor above, then the space between the floor and ceiling next above it. Any portion of a story exceeding fourteen (14) feet in height shall be considered as an additional story for each fourteen (14) feet or fraction thereof.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Story, Half:
Story, Half: That portion of a building under a gable, hip or mansard roof, the wall plates of which on at least two (2) opposite exterior walls are not more than four and one-half (4½) feet above the finished floor of each story. In the case of single-family dwellings, duplex dwellings and multi-family dwellings less than three (3) stories in height, a half story in a sloping roof shall not be counted as a story for the purpose of this title. In the case of multi-family dwellings three (3) or more stories in height, a half story shall be counted as a story.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Street:
Street: A public or private right-of-way which affords a primary means of access to abutting properties, whether designated as a street, avenue, highway, road, boulevard, lane, throughway, or however otherwise designated, but excepting driveways to buildings.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Street, Collector:
Street, Collector: A street that collects and distributes traffic, primarily within residential areas. This street carries between two thousand five hundred (2,500) and twelve thousand (12,000) ADT.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Street, Estate Residential:
Street, Estate Residential: A street of limited continuity, used for access to abutting rural residential properties and local needs of a neighborhood. This street carries less than one thousand (1,000) ADT.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Street or Alley Line:
Street or Alley Line: A line separating an abutting lot, piece or parcel from a street. The street line shall be the back of the curb where curbing exists or the edge of the street pavement if no curb is present.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Street, Local Residential:
Street, Local Residential: A street of limited continuity, used primarily for access to abutting rural residential properties and local needs of a neighborhood. This street carries less than one thousand (1,000) ADT.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Street, Major Collector:
Street, Major Collector: A street that serves as a main traffic thoroughfare, both within and outside of the City, carrying heavy volumes of traffic. This street carries more than two thousand five hundred (2,500) ADT.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Street, Minor Collector
Street, Minor Collector: A street that collects and distributes traffic within intensively developed areas, and is used primarily for internal trips within the planning area. This street carries between one thousand (1,000) and two thousand five hundred (2,500) ADT.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Street Width:
Street Width: The shortest distance between the backs of the curb or edge of pavement of a roadway.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Structural Alterations:
Structural Alterations: Any change other than incidental repairs which would prolong the life of the supporting members of a building or structure such as bearing walls, columns, beams and girders.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Structure:
Structure: Anything constructed or erected which requires at least semi-permanent location on the ground or is attached to something having location on the ground.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Subdivider:
Subdivider: Any person or corporation or duly authorized agent who undertakes the “subdivision” or “development” of land as defined herein. Also referred to as developer.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Subdivision:
Subdivision: A described tract of land which is to be or has been divided into two (2) or more lots or parcels. The term subdivision includes resubdivision and, where it is appropriate to the context, relates to the process of subdividing or to the land subdivided.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Swimming Pool, Indoor:
Swimming Pool, Indoor: A structure, whether designed to hold water more than thirty (30) inches deep to be used for recreational purposes and entirely enclosed within a building.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Tattoo and Body Piercing Establishments:
Tattoo and Body Piercing Establishments: Any establishment which performs or provides services for tattooing and/or body piercing as defined in Title 3, Chapter 10 of this Code.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Tavern – Nightclub or Lounge:
Tavern – Nightclub or Lounge: A building where liquors are sold to be consumed on the premises, but not including restaurants where the principal business is serving food.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Tent:
Tent: A structure, enclosure, or shelter constructed of fabric or other pliable material supported by any manner except by air or the contents protected by the material. The horizontal area covered by the fabric or other pliable material shall be considered building floor area. Tents shall be considered detached accessory structures.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
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Temporary and Seasonal Uses: A use intended for a limited duration on a site as allowed through the temporary use permit process in Section 10-9-3(F) or a use which is associated with a holiday or special event, or which is accessory to a permitted use and transitory in nature.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Temporary Use Permit:
Temporary Use Permit: A permit for a Temporary Use designated in this UDO which is to be established for a fixed period of time, with the intent to discontinue such use upon the expiration of that timeframe.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Terrace, Open:
Terrace, Open: A level and rather narrow plane or platform which, for the purpose of this title, is located adjacent to one (1) or more faces of the principal structure and which is constructed not more than four feet (4') in height above the average level of the adjoining ground.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Theater, Live Performance:
Theater, Live Performance: A building used for dramatic, operatic, music, or other live performance purposes for which attendees are charged admission an admission fee to view.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Theater, Motion Picture:
Theater, Motion Picture: A building used for the display of motion pictures for which attendees are charged an admission fee to view.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Title:
Title: Reference to “title” herein shall be construed to be the Yorkville Unified Development Ordinance.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Tower:
Tower: Any structure that is designed and constructed primarily for the purpose of supporting one (1) or more antennas for telephone, radio and similar communications purposes, including self-supporting lattice towers, guyed towers, or monopole towers. The term includes radio and television transmission towers, microwave towers, common carrier towers, cellular telephone towers, alternative tower structures, and the like. The term includes the structure and any support thereto.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Trailer:
Trailer: A vehicle without motive power, designed to be towed by another vehicle but not designed for human occupancy and which may include a utility trailer, boat trailer, camping trailer, travel trailer, horse trailer or cargo trailer.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Treatment Center:
Treatment Center: One (1) or more buildings designed and used for the medical and surgical diagnosis and treatment. This definition excludes hospitals and nursing homes.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Tree Root Zone:
Tree Root Zone: Area of the ground around the base of the tree measured from the trunk to five (5) feet beyond the outer base of the branching system.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Truck and Trailer Sales/Rental:
Truck and Trailer Sales/Rental: Leasing or renting of trucks and trailers, including incidental parking and servicing of vehicles for rent or lease.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Truck, Truck-Tractor, Truck Trailer, Car Trailer or Bus Storage Yard:
Truck, Truck-Tractor, Truck Trailer, Car Trailer or Bus Storage Yard: A site intended for the semi-permanent storage of trucks, truck-tractors, truck trailers, car trailers, buses, and other similar vehicles. Motor freight terminals shall not be included.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Turnaround:
Turnaround: An area at the closed end of a street or parking lot, within which vehicles may reverse their direction.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Underground Dog Fences:
Underground Dog Fences: A fence constructed beneath the site’s natural grade constructed solely to prevent household pets from leaving the property.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Unified Development Ordinance, City of Yorkville:
Unified Development Ordinance, City of Yorkville: The Unified Development Ordinance of the City of Yorkville as established in this title including the Zoning District Map as amended.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Use:
Use: The purpose for which land or a building thereon is designed, arranged or intended, or for which it is occupied or maintained, let or leased.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Use, Lawful:
Use, Lawful: The use of any building, structure or land that conforms with all of the regulations of this title and which conforms with all of the codes, ordinances and other legal requirements as existing when the structure or land is being examined.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Use, Nonconforming:
Use, Nonconforming: See definition of Nonconforming use.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Use, Permitted:
Use, Permitted: Any use which is or may be lawfully established in a particular district or districts, provided it conforms with all requirements, regulations, and when applicable, performance standards of this title for the district in which such use is located.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Use, Principal:
Use, Principal: The dominant use of land or buildings as distinguished from a subordinate or accessory use.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Use, Special:
Use, Special: A use that has unusual operational, physical or other characteristics that may be different from those of the predominant permitted uses in a district, but which is a use that complements and is otherwise, or can be made, compatible with the intended overall development within a district. Compliance with special standards not necessarily applicable to other permitted or conditional uses in the district shall be required as regulated in this title.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Vacant Land:
Vacant Land: A lot or parcel of land on which no improvements or structures have been constructed or actively used for any land use purpose.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Variation:
Variation: A limited relief from the requirements of this title granted to a particular property in an instance in which the strict application of the requirements would create a practical difficulty or particular hardship prohibiting the use of the property in a manner otherwise allowed under this title. Such limited relief shall not change the underlying zoning of the subject property.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Vehicle Charging Station:
Vehicle Charging Station: A permitted accessory use serving another principal use that is located in a parking structure or parking lot and used for the charging of electric motor vehicles. The vehicle charging station shall not result in the reduction of parking spaces to less than what is required to serve the principal use.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Veterinary Clinic:
Veterinary Clinic: An establishment for the care and treatment of the diseases and injuries of animals and where animals may be boarded only during their convalescence.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Wholesaling and Warehousing:
Wholesaling and Warehousing: A structure, part thereof, or an area used principally for the storage of goods and merchandise for wholesale or distribution, excluding bulk storage of materials that are inflammable or explosive or that present hazards.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Wetlands:
Wetlands: As defined by the Illinois Department of Natural Resources.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Wind Farm:
Wind Farm: An installation including a cluster of wind turbines on one (1) parcel for the collection of wind energy and sale of electricity to customers located off-site.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Yard:
Yard: An open area on a lot which is unobstructed from its lowest level to the sky, except as otherwise provided in this title.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Yard, Corner Side:
Yard, Corner Side: A yard adjoining a street line which is bounded by the front lot line and rear lot line, and is opposite the interior side yard.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Yard, Front:
Yard, Front: A yard extending along the full width of a front lot line between the side lot lines and has a depth between the front lot line and the front yard line.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Yard, Interior Side:
Yard, Interior Side: A side yard which adjoins another lot or an alley separating such side yard from another lot.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Yard Line:
Yard Line: A line in a lot that is parallel to the lot line along which the applicable yard extends and which is not nearer to such lot line at any point than the required depth or width of the applicable yard. A building, structure or other obstruction shall not encroach into the area between the "yard line" and such adjacent lot line, except for such permitted obstructions in yards as are set forth in Section 10-3-11 of this chapter.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Yard, Rear:
Yard, Rear: A yard extending along the width of the rear lot line between the side lot lines, and from the rear lot line to the rear yard line in depth.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Yard, Side:
Yard, Side: A yard extending along the length of a side lot line between the rear yard line and front yard line, from the side yard line to the side lot line in width.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Zone:
Zone: A "district", as defined in this section.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Zoning Administrator:
Zoning Administrator: The designated City of Yorkville staff person(s) in the Community Development Department designated to undertake the administration and interpretation of this UDO, including but not limited to the Community Development Director.
Effective on: 1/1/1901
Zoning Officer:
Zoning Officer: The Building Code Official shall be the Zoning Officer and be responsible for enforcing this Title, including the responsibilities defined in Section 10-9-1(B).
Effective on: 1/1/1901