[Amended 3-14-2006 by Ord. No. 1360]
Fences, walls or hedges used for any purpose shall in all districts
conform to the following:
A. Vision clearance area.
[Amended 6-19-2012 by Ord. No. 12-1430]
(1) For the purpose of minimizing traffic hazards in areas zoned residential,
no fence built in the vision clearance area shall exceed three feet
in height above the street grade. The "vision clearance area" is defined
as a triangular area on a lot at the intersection of two streets,
or the intersection of a street and driveway, two sides of which are
lot lines measured from the corner intersection of the property lines
to a minimum distance of 15 feet from their intersection and the third
side of which is the line measured from the end points of each of
the other two lines.
(2) No fence shall be installed in any yard that will obstruct the view
of any window or opening in a habitable space of a dwelling. A minimum
distance of three feet shall be maintained between any solid fence
and any such window or opening in a dwelling.
B. No barbed wire or other such sharp-pointed fence and no electrically
charged fence shall be erected or maintained.
C. No permanent fence or retaining wall shall be constructed or erected
within any public street or alley right-of-way unless authorized by
the Village Board. Fences erected on public easements or across ditches
shall be so constructed that drainage shall not be obstructed and,
in the event it is necessary to remove such fence for maintenance
or other purpose, removal and/or replacement of such fence or other
improvement shall be the responsibility of the property owner.
D. Fences, walls or hedges in any district may be located on lot lines,
provided such fences, walls and hedges do not exceed eight feet in
height.
(See 70 ILCS 605/2-1 through 2-13.)
In any district where home occupations are permitted, the establishment
and continuance of a home occupation shall be subject to the following
requirements:
A. Such use shall be conducted entirely within a dwelling and carried
on by the inhabitants thereof and no others.
B. Such use shall be clearly incidental and secondary to the use of
the dwelling for dwelling purposes and shall not change the residential
character thereof.
C. The total area used for such purposes shall not exceed the equivalent
of 1/2 the floor area, in square feet, of the first floor of the user's
dwelling unit, if any; otherwise, the main floor of such dwelling
unit.
D. There shall be no advertising, display or other indications of home
occupation on the premises, except the customary sign or nameplate
for identification purposes only.
E. There shall not be conducted on the premises the business of selling
stocks of merchandise, supplies, or products, provided that incidental
retail sales may be made in connection with other permitted home occupations.
F. There shall be no exterior storage on the premises of material used
in the home occupation, nor of any highly explosive or combustible
material.
G. There shall be no offensive noise, vibration, smoke, dust, odors,
heat or glare noticeable at or beyond the property line.
H. A home occupation, including studios or rooms for instruction, shall
provide additional off-street parking area reasonably adequate to
accommodate needs created by the home occupation of not less than
one parking space for each 300 square feet of floor area devoted to
the home occupation. Such parking shall be provided on the same lot
as the home occupation.
I. For the purposes of this section, provided all requirements contained
herein are met, the following shall be considered home occupations:
(1) Professional office, except as otherwise provided.
(3) Dressmaking or millinery.
(4) Teaching, with musical instruction limited to two pupils at a time.
J. A home occupation shall not include the following: clinic, hospital,
mortuary, funeral home, nursing home, barber shop, tea room, tourist
home, antique shop, animal hospital, restaurant, veterinarian's office,
or use similar to any of the foregoing excluded uses.
Any light used for the illumination of signs, parking areas,
swimming pools, or for any other purpose shall be arranged in such
a manner as to direct the light away from neighboring residential
properties and away from the vision of passing motorists.
[Amended 6-19-2012 by Ord. No. 12-1429; at time of adoption of Code (see
Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. I)]
All private residential swimming pools shall be completely enclosed
by a fence erected along the periphery of the pool walks. All fence
openings or points of entry into the pool area enclosure shall be
equipped with gates. The fence and gates shall be constructed of a
decay- or corrosion-resistant material and be at least four feet in
height. All gates shall be equipped with self-closing and self-latching
devices placed at the top of the gate and made inaccessible to small
children. All fence posts shall be decay- or corrosion-resistant and
shall be set in concrete bases. Said pool shall comply with the Zoning
Code with respect to percentage of lot usage as contained therein.