The purposes of these regulations concerning nonresidential
zoning districts include the following:
A.
To provide lands to be used for the full range of the business,
commercial and industrial establishments needed to serve the citizens
of the Village.
B.
To provide regulations intended to govern the locations, intensity,
and methods of development of the business and commercial uses needed
to serve the citizens of the Village.
C.
To establish nonresidential zoning districts and groupings of
business, commercial and industrial establishments that are compatible
in scope of services and methods of operation.
D.
To promote the establishment of off-street parking facilities
and limited access to roads so as to alleviate traffic problems and
engender public safety and convenience.
E.
To provide commercial areas of such size, shape, and accessibility
that development of land for these purposes will minimize traffic
congestion generated by "strip-commercial" development.
F.
To regulate the performance of such uses by establishing standards
for the external impacts created in such uses.
[Amended 9-27-2017 by Ord. No. 17-060]
Development of land that includes two or more principal buildings
or one or more principal uses shall be planned and constructed as
a planned unit development (PUD) where certain regulations of this
chapter for the district where it is located are modified. All other permitted uses in commercial and industrial
districts require a public meeting held before the Plan Commission
and the Village Board for site plan review.
The C-1 Neighborhood Business District (previously known as
the "Local Shopping District") is established to provide areas to
be used by retail or service establishments to supply convenience
goods or personal services for the daily needs of the residents living
in the immediate area and to ensure the development of such areas
in a way so as to protect the rural character of the area zoned in
the C-1 Neighborhood Business District as well as the residential
areas in the immediate vicinity by encouraging complementary design
and construction of structures, including but not limited to the use
of pitched roofs, limited signage and enhanced buffering and landscaping.
The C-2 Local Business District (previously known as the "Community
Shopping District") is established to provide areas to be used as
the primary shopping area for communities which meet their needs for
goods and services that may arise on a weekly basis in an area or
areas which are centrally located to provide for groupings of business
and commercial establishments which tend to draw trade that is mutually
interchangeable and which areas are of sufficient size which will
promote the convenience of the public and enhance vehicular and pedestrian
traffic, thereby lessening or avoiding congestion in public streets
through the use of limited points of access, internal streets, and
cross-easements for ingress and egress.
[Amended 9-9-2008 by Ord. No. 08-048]
The C-3 General Business District is established to provide
areas to be used for large space uses for retailing service activities
that are normally associated with commercial uses where adequately
sized parcels of land allow for large setbacks, clear vision, and
safe ingress and egress.
The C-5 Office and Research Park District is established to
provide land for large, attractively landscaped sites for office buildings,
research activities, or specialized compatible industrial activities.
The C-6 Commercial Recreation District is established to provide
lands and structures for establishments that provide amusement, recreation
or entertainment for the general public.
[Amended 5-22-2012 by Ord. No. 12-026]
The P-1 Governmental Buildings and Public Schools District is
provided to serve the special needs for governmental buildings and
public schools. The term "governmental building" is defined as a structure
owned, leased and/or operated by a municipality, township, county,
state, the federal government or any duly constituted agency or department
thereof and utilized for a public service or purpose of the governmental
entity. A "public school" is a school created or operating under the
authority of the School Code of the State of Illinois and providing
education for children of a school district whose geographic boundaries
include all or portions of Homer Glen.