In the construction of this chapter, the rules and definitions
contained in this article shall be observed and applied, except when
the context clearly indicates otherwise.
A.
Words used in the present tense shall include the future tense; words
used in the singular number shall include the plural number, and the
plural the singular; the masculine gender shall include the feminine
and neuter.
B.
The word "shall" is mandatory and not discretionary.
C.
The word "may" is permissive.
D.
The phrase "used for" shall include the phrases "arranged for," "designed
for," "intended for," "maintained for" and "occupied for."
Whenever a word or term hereinafter defined appears in the text
of this chapter, its meaning shall be construed as set forth in the
definition thereof. Words or terms not hereinafter defined shall be
as defined in Webster's Dictionary, latest edition.
To have a common property or district line.
See Article XXI.
An establishment where, for any form of consideration, one
or more still or motion-picture projectors, slide projectors, or similar
machines, or other image-producing machines, for viewing by five or
fewer persons each, are regularly used to show films, motion pictures,
video cassettes, slides, or other photographic reproductions which
are characterized by the depiction or description of specified sexual
activities or specified anatomical areas.
[Amended 12-15-1997 by Ord. No. 1244]
[Amended 12-15-1997 by Ord. No. 1244]
A commercial establishment which has as a significant or substantial
portion of its stock-in-trade in any one or more of the following,
or derives a significant or substantial portion of its revenues from,
or devotes a significant or substantial portion of its interior business
or advertising to, the sale or rental for any form of consideration
of any one or more of the following:
Books, magazines, periodicals, or other printed matter, or photographs,
films, motion pictures, video cassettes, slides, or other visual representations
which are characterized by the depiction or description of specified
sexual activities or specified anatomical areas.
Instruments, devices or paraphernalia which are designed for
use or marketed primarily for stimulation of human genital organs
or for sadomasochistic use or abuse of the user or others.
An establishment may have other principal business purposes
that do not involve the offering for sale, rental or viewing of materials
depicting or describing "specified sexual activities" or "specified
anatomical areas," and still be categorized as an adult bookstore,
adult novelty store, or adult video store. Such other business purposes
will not serve to exempt such establishments from being categorized
as an adult bookstore, adult novelty store or adult video store so
long as one of its principal business purposes is offering for sale
or rental, for some form of consideration, the specified materials
which depict or describe specified anatomical areas or specified sexual
activities.
A nightclub, bar, restaurant bottle club, or similar commercial
establishment, whether or not alcoholic beverages are served, which
regularly features:
[Amended 12-15-1997 by Ord. No. 1244]
Persons who appear nude, seminude or in a state of seminudity;
Live performances which are characterized by the exposure of
specified anatomical areas or by pictures, video cassettes, slides,
or other photographic reproductions which are characterized by the
depiction or description of specified sexual activities or specified
anatomical areas. An adult cabaret also includes any business which
offers, as part of its services or entertainment and for any type
of consideration, dancing with any patron intended for the sexual
stimulation of the patron by an employee or person hired by the business
while the employee is in any state of dress or undress.
A motel, hotel or similar commercial establishment which:
[Amended 12-15-1997 by Ord. No. 1244]
Offers public accommodations, for any form of consideration,
which provides patrons with closed-circuit television transmissions,
films, motion pictures, video cassettes, slides or other photographic
reproductions which are characterized by the depiction or description
of specified sexual activities or specified anatomical areas and which
advertises the availability of this sexually oriented type of material
by means of a sign visible from the public right-of-way, or by means
of any off-premises advertising, including, but not limited to, newspapers,
magazines, pamphlets or leaflets, radio or television; or
Offers a sleeping room for rent for a period of time less than
10 hours; or
Allows a tenant or occupant to sub-rent the sleeping room for
a time period of less than 10 hours.
A commercial establishment where films, motion pictures,
video cassettes, slides or similar photographic reproductions which
are characterized by the depiction or description of specified sexual
activities or specified anatomical areas are regularly shown for any
form of consideration.
[Amended 12-15-1997 by Ord. No. 1244]
A theater, concert hall, auditorium, or similar commercial
establishment which, for any form of consideration, regularly features
persons who appear in a state of nudity or seminudity, or live performances
which are characterized by exposure of specified anatomical areas
or by specified sexual activities.
[Amended 12-15-1997 by Ord. No. 1244]
A dedicated public right-of-way, other than a street, that
affords a secondary means of access to abutting property.
Any change in size, shape, occupancy or use of a building
or structure.
Clock towers, sculptures, bell steeples, light poles and
similar alternative-design mounting structures that conceal the presence
of antennas or towers and are architecturally compatible with the
area.
[Amended 12-21-1998 by Ord. No. 1283]
A building or portion thereof designed and used for the care,
observation or treatment of domestic animals. Boarding of animals
is not permitted except for extended medical treatment.
A device used to receive or transmit electromagnetic waves.
Examples include, but are not limited to, whip antennas, panel antennas
and dish antennas.
[Amended 12-21-1998 by Ord. No. 1283]
A facility which provides sleeping accommodations and assistance
with the activities of daily living and instrumental activities of
daily living to 20 or more individuals, age 55 or older. Supportive
and intermittent health-related services, including LPNs or RNs, must
be available 24 hours per day to meet scheduled and unscheduled needs.
Assisted living facilities may also contain limited retail and personal
service establishments for the exclusive use of facility residents.
[Amended 5-18-1998 by Ord. No. 1261]
One or more rooms which are arranged, designed or used as
living quarters for no more than two individuals residing in an assisted
living facility. An assisted living unit includes bathroom facilities
but shall not contain cooking facilities.
[Amended 5-18-1998 by Ord. No. 1261]
A story having part but not more than 1/2 of its height below
grade. A basement shall be counted as a story for the purpose of height
regulation if used for dwelling purposes.
The land adjoining one side of a street between two consecutive
junctions of said street with streets, railway rights-of-way, waterways
or permanent open space areas, crossing or meeting said side of said
street.
The space remaining on a zoning lot after the minimum open
space requirements of this chapter have been complied with.
A structure, or part thereof, enclosing any occupancy, including
residential, institutional, assembly, business, mercantile, storage,
hazardous and miscellaneous uses. When separated by fire walls, any
unit so separated shall be deemed a separate building.
The maximum horizontal projected area of a building and its
accessory buildings, excluding only cornices projecting not more than
30 inches, open steps and terraces.
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.
A building surrounded by open space on the same zoning lot.
A line parallel to the street line (right-of-way) at a distance
from it, regulated by the setback requirements established in this
chapter. On a private street, the building line requirement shall
be measured on a line parallel to the most adjacent edge of pavement.
Regulations which control the size or location of yards,
setbacks, height of buildings and spacing between principal and accessory
buildings.
A facility operated by an organization or business that is
licensed by the Illinois 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, per the Cannabis and Controlled Substances
Tax Act (P.A. 101-0027),[1] as it may be amended from time to time, and regulations
promulgated thereunder.
[Added 12-16-2019 by
FMC-2019-15]
A facility operated by an organization or business that is
licensed by the Illinois Department of Agriculture to cultivate, process,
transport, and perform necessary activities to provide cannabis and
cannabis-infused products to licensed cannabis business establishments,
per the Cannabis and Controlled Substances Tax Act (P.A. 101-0027),[2] as it may be amended from time to time, and regulations
promulgated thereunder.
[Added 12-16-2019 by
FMC-2019-15]
A facility operated by an organization or business that is
registered by the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional
Regulation to acquire cannabis for the purpose of dispensing cannabis,
paraphernalia, or related supplies and educational materials to purchasers
or to qualified registered medical cannabis patients and caregivers
in accordance with the Compassionate Use of Medical Cannabis Program
Act (P.A. 101-363),[3] or the Cannabis and Controlled Substances Tax Act (P.A.
101-0027),[4] as they may be amended from time to time, and regulations
promulgated thereunder.
[Added 12-16-2019 by
FMC-2019-15]
A facility operated by an organization or business that is
licensed by the Illinois Department of Agriculture to directly incorporate
cannabis or cannabis concentrate into a product formulation to produce
a cannabis-infused product, per the Cannabis and Controlled Substances
Tax Act, (P.A. 101-0027),[5] as it may be amended from time to time, and regulations
promulgated thereunder.
[Added 12-16-2019 by
FMC-2019-15]
A facility operated by an organization or business that is
licensed by the Illinois Department of Agriculture to either extract
constituent chemicals or compounds to produce cannabis concentrate
or incorporate cannabis or cannabis concentrate into a formulation
to produce a cannabis product, per the Cannabis Controlled Substances
and Tax Act (P.A. 101-0027),[6] as it may be amended from time to time, and regulations
promulgated thereunder.
[Added 12-16-2019 by
FMC-2019-15]
An organization or business that is licensed by the Illinois
Department of Agriculture to transport cannabis on the behalf of a
cannabis business establishment or a community college licensed under
the Community College Cannabis Vocational Training Pilot Program,
per the Cannabis and Controlled Substances Tax Act (P.A. 101-0027),[7] as it may be amended from time to time, and regulations
promulgated thereunder.
[Added 12-16-2019 by
FMC-2019-15]
A story having more than 1/2 of its height below grade or
below the highest level of the adjoining ground. A cellar shall not
be counted as a story for the purpose of height measurement.
An establishment where two or more licensed physicians, dentists
or medical specialists and their professional associates practice
together.
A series of garages located jointly in a common lot accessory
to a residential use and having no public shop or service in connection
therewith.
A single dwelling unit occupied on a relatively permanent
basis in a family-like environment by a group or unrelated persons
with disabilities, plus paid professional support staff provided by
a sponsoring agency, either living with the residents on a twenty-four-hour
basis or present whenever residents with disabilities are present
in the dwelling; and complies with the zoning regulations for the
district in which the site is located.
[Amended 5-5-1992 by Ord.
No. 1027]
An open unoccupied space other than a yard on the same lot
with a building, which is totally or partially enclosed by a building
or buildings and is completely open to the sky.
A court enclosed on all sides by exterior walls of a building
or by exterior walls and lot lines on which walls are allowable.
A court enclosed on not more than three sides by exterior
walls of a building, or by exterior walls and lot lines on which walls
are allowable, provided one side or end of the court opens to a street,
driveway, alley or yard.
The level of the established curb in front of the building,
measured at the center of such front. Where a building faces on more
than one street, the curb level shall be the average of the levels
of the curbs at the center of the front of the building facing each
street. Where there is no curb, the mean level of the land immediately
adjacent to the street line shall be considered to be curb level.
The numerical value obtained by dividing the total number
of dwelling units in a development by the gross area of the tract
of land (in acres) within the development, the result being the number
of dwelling units per gross acre of land. Gross area includes all
residential and nonresidential land uses and private streets in the
development as well as rights-of-way of dedicated streets.
The numerical value obtained by dividing the total number
of dwelling units in a development by the area of the actual tract
of land (in acres) upon which the dwelling units are proposed to be
located and including private streets, common open space and associated
recreational facilities within the area, the result being the number
of dwelling units per net residential acre of land. Net density calculations
exclude rights-of-way of publicly dedicated streets.
A physical or mental impairment which substantially limits
one or more of a person's major life activities, impairs their ability
to live independently, or a record of having such an impairment, or
being regarded as having such an impairment, but such term does not
include current use of, nor addiction to, a controlled substance.
[Amended 5-5-1992 by Ord.
No. 1027]
A section of the Village, as depicted by the Zoning Map,
for which the regulations governing the height, area and use of buildings
and premises are the same.
A building, or portion thereof, designed or used exclusively
for residential occupancy, including single-family dwelling units
and multiple-family dwelling units, but not including house trailers
or mobile homes.
A dwelling which is joined to another dwelling at one or
more sides by a party wall or walls.
A dwelling which is entirely surrounded by open space on
the same lot.
A building or portion thereof containing three or more dwelling
units, originally constructed for said purpose.
A building designed exclusively for use and occupancy by
one family, and entirely separated from any other dwelling by open
space.
One or more rooms which are arranged, designed, or used as
living quarters for a family, or for a community residence as a single
housekeeping unit. A dwelling unit includes bathroom and kitchen facilities
in addition to sleeping and living areas.
[Amended 5-5-1992 by Ord.
No. 1027]
A person who, for any form of consideration, agrees or offers
to act as a companion, guide, or date for another person, or who agrees
or offers to privately model lingerie or to privately perform a striptease
for another person.
[Amended 12-15-1997 by Ord. No. 1244]
A person or business association who furnishes, offers to
furnish, or advertises to furnish escorts as one of its primary business
purposes for a fee, tip, or other consideration.
[Amended 12-15-1997 by Ord. No. 1244]
Either:
[Amended 5-5-1992 by Ord.
No. 1027]
An individual or two or more persons related by blood, marriage
or adoption, living together as a single housekeeping unit in a dwelling
unit; or
A group of not more than eight persons who need not be related
by blood, marriage, or adoption, living together as a single housekeeping
unit in a dwelling unit, plus, in either case, usual domestic servants.
A single dwelling unit occupied on a relatively permanent
basis in a single-family-like environment by a group of no more than
eight unrelated persons with disabilities, plus paid professional
support staff provided by a sponsoring agency, either living with
the residents on a twenty-four-hour basis or present whenever residents
with disabilities are present at the dwelling; and which complies
with the zoning regulations for the district in which the site is
located.
[Amended 5-5-1992 by Ord.
No. 1027]
For measurement purposes:
The floor area of a building is the sum of the gross horizontal
areas of the several floors of the building measured from the interior
faces of the interior walls or from the center line of walls separating
two buildings.
The floor area of a building shall include basement floor area
when more than 1/2 of the basement height is above the established
curb level or above the finished lot grade level where curb level
has not been established; elevator shafts and stairwells at each floor;
floor space used for mechanical equipment, open or enclosed, located
on the roof; penthouses; attic space having headroom of seven feet
10 inches or more; interior balconies and mezzanines; and enclosed
porches, and floor area devoted to accessory uses. However, any space
devoted to off-street parking or loading shall not be included in
floor area.
For determining off-street parking and loading requirements:
Floor area of a building, when prescribed as the basis of measurement
for off-street parking spaces and loading berths for any use, shall
mean the sum of the gross horizontal areas of the several floors of
the building, or portion thereof, devoted to such use, including accessory
storage areas located within selling or working space, such as counters,
racks or closets; and basement floor area devoted to retailing activities,
to the production or processing of goods, or to business or professional
offices.
However, floor area for the purpose of measurement for off-street
parking spaces shall not include floor area devoted primarily to storage
purposes (except as otherwise noted herein), floor area devoted to
off-street parking or loading facilities, including aisles, ramps
and maneuvering space, or basement floor area other than area devoted
to retailing activities, to the production or processing of goods
or to business or professional offices.
The length of a front lot line or lines.
A freestanding, roofed open-air structure with more than
four sides. The structure may be enclosed for decorative or other
design purposes up to a maximum height of four feet above floor level.
[Amended 11-3-2008 by Ord. No. 1646]
A single dwelling unit occupied on a relatively permanent
basis in a family-like environment by a group of nine to 15 unrelated
persons with disabilities, plus paid professional support staff provided
by a sponsoring agency, either living with the residents on a twenty-four-hour
basis or present whenever residents with disabilities are present
at the dwelling; and which complies with the zoning regulations for
the district in which the site is located.
[Amended 5-5-1992 by Ord.
No. 1027]
A temporary residential living arrangement for persons who
are receiving therapy and counseling from support staff who are present
at all times residents are present for the following purposes:
[Amended 5-5-1992 by Ord.
No. 1027]
The vertical distance measured at the curb level, to the
highest point of the roof for flat roofs; to the mean height level
(between eaves and ridge) for gable and hip roofs; to the highest
point of mansard roofs. Where a building is located upon a natural
terrace or slope, the height may be measured from the average ground
level at the front building wall. For an accessory building, the height
shall be measured from the top of the accessory building's foundation.
A temporary residential living arrangement for persons with
a disease that requires full-time support, therapy, and/or treatment.
[Amended 5-5-1992 by Ord.
No. 1027]
Any lot or premises or portion thereof on which more than
four dogs or cats, or other household domestic animals, over four
months of age, are kept or on which more than two such animals are
boarded for compensation or kept for sale.
A plot, piece or parcel of land that is designated by its
owner or developer, at the time of applying for a building permit,
as a tract, all of which is to be used, developed, or built upon as
a unit under single ownership. So long as it satisfies the requirements,
such lot may consist of:
A lot which adjoins the point of intersection or meeting
of two or more streets and in which the interior angle formed by the
street lines is 135° or less. If the street lines are curved,
the angle shall be measured at the point of intersection of the extensions
of the street lines in the directions which they take at the intersections
of the street line with the side lot line and with the rear lot line
of the lot. If the street line is curved at its point of intersection
with the side lot line or rear lot line, the tangent to the curve
at that point shall be considered the direction of the street line.
That percentage of a lot which, when viewed directly from
above, would be covered by a building or buildings or any part thereof,
excluding projecting roof eaves.
The distance between the midpoint of the front lot line and
the midpoint of the rear lot line.
A lot other than a corner or reversed corner lot.
Lot boundary line. See "lot line, front"; "lot line, rear";
"lot line, side."
A street line forming the boundary of a lot. For corner lots,
the front lot line shall be along the block face on which the majority
of the lots, orientated in the same direction, front.
The lot line that is most distant from, and is, or is most
nearly, parallel to, the front lot line. If a rear lot line is less
than 15 feet long, or if the lot comes to a point at the rear, the
rear lot line shall be a line at least 15 feet long, lying wholly
within the lot, parallel to the front lot line.
A lot line which is neither a front lot line nor a rear lot
line.
A lot which is a part of a subdivision, the plat of which
has been recorded in the Office of the County Recorder of Deeds or
Registrar of Titles; or a parcel of land, the deed to which was recorded
or registered prior to adoption of this chapter.
A lot on which one side lot line is substantially a continuation
of the front lot line of an adjacent lot.
The area of a horizontal plane bounded by the front, side
and rear lot lines.
A lot having its front and rear lot lines on adjacent and
substantially parallel streets, otherwise known as a "double frontage
lot."
The distance on a horizontal plane between the side lot lines
measured at right angles to the lot depth at the established front
building line.
Any place where, for any form of consideration or gratuity,
massage, alcohol rub, administration of fomentations, electric or
magnetic treatments, or any other treatment manipulation of the human
body which occurs as a part of or in connection with specified sexual
activities, or where any person providing such treatment, manipulation,
or service related thereto exposes his or her specified anatomical
areas or massages the specified anatomical areas of the customer,
unless prescribed by a physician or registered physical and massage
therapist. The definition of "sexually oriented businesses" shall
not include the practice of massage in any licensed hospital, nor
by a licensed physician, surgeon, chiropractor or osteopath, nor by
any nurse or technician working under the supervision of a licensed
physician, surgeon, chiropractor or osteopath, nor by trainers for
any amateur, semiprofessional or professional athlete or athletic
team or school athletic program.[8]
[Amended 12-15-1997 by Ord. No. 1244]
NONCONFORMING BUILDINGA building or structure or portion thereof lawfully existing at the time of the adoption of this chapter which was designated, erected or structurally altered for a use that does not conform to the use regulations of the district in which it is located.
NONCONFORMING USEA use which lawfully occupied a building or land at the time of adoption of this chapter and which does not conform with the use regulations of the district in which it is located.
Any person in whom is vested the ownership dominion, or title
of property, including a legal or record owner and an equitable or
beneficial owner, and including each joint tenant, tenant-in-common,
partner, co-owner or other person having a partial ownership interest.
In addition to a natural person, the term "person" includes
the following: partnership, firm, association, organization, trust,
trustee, estate, legal representative of an estate, trust company,
financial institution, corporation, governmental unit or agency.
Any commercial development consisting of one or more buildings containing two or more stores or offices with an aggregate gross floor space of more than 50,000 square feet, which development may be planned or developed as a coordinated unit or which development may be characterized by an integrated arrangement of stores, offices, buildings and facilities, shall be considered as a single unit for all purposes within the meaning and scope of this chapter, and shall be permitted only by special permit as a special use in accordance with the provisions of Article XVI hereof.
A tract of land which is developed as a unit under single
ownership or unified control, which includes two or more principal
buildings or uses, and is reviewed under the planned development procedure
of this chapter.
A roofed-over structure, projecting out from the walls or
wall of a principal building and commonly open to the weather in part.
Any tower or antenna on which a permit has been properly
issued prior to the effective date of this chapter.
[Amended 12-21-1998 by Ord. No. 1283]
A nonaccessory building in which is conducted a principal
use of the lot on which the building is located.
The primary use of land or buildings as distinguished from
a subordinate or accessory use.
A garage intended for and used by the private motor vehicles
of the families resident upon the premises, except that not more than
1/2 of the space may be rented for the private vehicles of persons
not resident on the premises. Such a garage shall not be used for
more than one commercial vehicle per family which is resident upon
the premises.
Any publicly owned open area, including, but not limited
to, the following: parks, playgrounds, school sites, parkways and
streets.
Any person, firm, corporation or municipal department duly
authorized to furnish, under public regulation to the public, electricity,
gas, steam, telephone, telegraph, transportation or water.
A strip of land with tracks and auxiliary facilities for
track operation, but not including depots, loading platforms, stations,
train shed, warehouses, car shops, car yards, locomotive shops or
water towers.
A building, all or part of which contains one or more dwelling
units, including single-family dwellings, two-family dwellings and
multiple-family dwellings, but excluding hostelries, house trailers,
lodging houses, dormitories, sororities and fraternities, nurses'
residences, sanitariums, nursing homes and convalescent homes.
A privately owned establishment for the care of children
or the aged or infirm, or a place of rest for those suffering bodily
disorders. Such home does not contain equipment for surgical care
or for treatment of disease or injury.
Any land, building or part thereof, other than a boarding
house, where meals are provided for compensation for three or more
persons, including a cafe, cafeteria, coffee shop, lunchroom, tearoom
and dining room.
An institution which offers certified instruction, but excluding
private trade, business or commercial training facilities.
Any place where a person, who regularly appears in a state
of seminudity or nudity, is provided for money or any form of consideration
to be observed, sketched, drawn, painted, sculptured, photographed,
or similarly depicted by other persons.
[Amended 12-15-1997 by Ord. No. 1244]
The distance between the front lot line and the principal
building on the lot.
The depth of a required front yard.
A business or commercial establishment that, as one of its
primary business purposes, offers for any form of consideration a
place where two or more persons may congregate, associate, or consort
for the purpose of specified sexual activities when one or more of
the persons is seminude or nude. The definition of sexually oriented
businesses shall not include an establishment where a medical practitioner,
psychologist, psychiatrist, or similar professional person licensed
by the state engages in medically approved and recognized sexual therapy.
[Amended 12-15-1997 by Ord. No. 1244]
A name, identification, description, display or illustration
which is affixed to or painted or represented directly or indirectly
upon a building, structure, or piece of land and which directs attention
to an object, product, place, activity, person, institution, organization
or business.
A sign which directs attention to a business, commodity,
service or entertainment conducted, sold or offered elsewhere than
upon the premises where such sign is located or to which it is affixed.
A sign which directs attention to a business or profession
conducted or to a commodity, service, or entertainment sold or offered
upon the premises where such sign is located or to which it is affixed.
Any illuminated sign on which the artificial light is not
maintained stationary and/or constant in intensity and color at all
times when such sign is in use. For the purpose of this chapter, any
revolving, illuminated sign shall be considered a flashing sign.
The entire area within a single continuous perimeter enclosing
the extreme limits of such sign and in no case passing through or
between any adjacent elements of same. However, such perimeter shall
not include any structural or framing elements lying outside the limits
of such sign and not forming an integral part of the display.
A window sign is any sign, whether temporary or permanent,
whether illuminated or nonilluminated, that is located in a window.
A temporary window sign is a sign constructed of paper, cardboard
or plastic which is neither designed nor intended for display for
a period in excess of 12 weeks. All paper and cardboard signs shall
be considered temporary signs.
Any use of land or buildings, or both, described and permitted herein, subject to the provisions of § 285-26-9.
Uncovered or exposed human genitals, pubic region, vulva,
pubic hair, buttock, female breast or breast below a point immediately
above the top of the areola or nipple, or the human male genitals
in a discernible erect state, even if completely and opaquely covered.
[Amended 12-15-1997 by Ord. No. 1244]
Sexual conduct, being actual or simulated, acts of human
masturbation, sexual intercourse, or physical contact, in an act of
apparent sexual stimulation or gratification, with a person's clothed
or unclothed genitals, pubic area, buttocks, or the breast of a female;
or any sadomasochistic abuse or acts including animals or any latent
objects in an act of apparent sexual stimulation or gratification.
[Amended 12-15-1997 by Ord. No. 1244]
That portion of a building included between the surface of
any floor and the surface of the floor next above it, or if there
be no floor above it, then the space between the floor and the ceiling
next above it. Any portion of a story exceeding 14 feet in height
shall be considered as an additional story for each 14 feet or fraction
thereof.
That portion of a building under a gable, hip or mansard
roof, the wall plates of which, on at least two opposite exterior
walls, are not more than 4 1/2 feet above the finished floor
of such story. In the case of one-family dwellings, two-family dwellings,
and multiple-family dwellings less than three stories in height, a
half story in a sloping roof shall not be counted as a story for the
purpose of this chapter. In the case of multiple-family dwellings
three or more stories in height, a half story shall be counted as
a story.
All property dedicated or intended for public highway, freeway,
or roadway purposes or subject to public easements therefor.
The following streets: Dixie Highway, Western Avenue, Governors
Highway, Kedzie Avenue, Crawford Avenue, Flossmoor Road and Vollmer
Road.
A line forming the boundary of the right-of-way of an existing
or dedicated street.
Any change other than incidental repairs, which would prolong
the life of supporting members of a building, or other structures,
such as bearing walls or bearing partitions, columns, beams or girders.
[Amended 12-21-1998 by Ord. No. 1283]
Any structure that is designed and constructed primarily for
the purpose of supporting one or more antennas, including self-supporting
lattice towers, guy towers or monopole towers. The term includes radio
and television transmission towers, personal communications service
towers (PCS), microwave towers, common-carrier towers, cellular telephone
towers, alternative tower structures, and the like.
This definition does not include any structure erected solely
for a residential, noncommercial individual use, such as television
antennas, satellite dishes or amateur radio antennas.
A level plane or platform which, for the purpose of this
chapter is located adjacent to one or more faces of the principal
structure and which is constructed not more than four feet in height
above the average level of the adjoining ground.
A dwelling containing more than two dwelling units, each
having a completely separate entrance at ground level.
A vehicle without motive power, used or adaptable for living,
sleeping, business or storage purposes, having no foundation other
than wheels, blocks, skids, jacks, horses or skirting, which does
not meet Building Code requirements and has been or reasonably may
be equipped with wheels or other devices for transporting the structure
from place to place. The term "trailer" shall include "camp car" and
"house car." A permanent foundation shall not change its character
unless the entire structure is erected in accordance with the Village
Building Code.
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.
Open space on a lot which is unoccupied and unobstructed from its lowest level to the sky, except for the permitted obstructions specified in § 285-3-3.
An open space on the same lot with a building between the
front line of the building and the front lot line for the full width
of the lot.
An open space (unoccupied except by accessory buildings)
on the same lot with a building, between the rear line of the building
and the rear line of the lot, for the full width of the lot.
An unoccupied space on the same lot with a building, between
the building and the side line of the lot, and extending from the
front line of the building to the rear line of the building.
A yard extending along the full length of a front lot line
and back to a line drawn parallel to the front lot line at a distance
therefrom equal to the depth of the required front yard.
A yard extending along the full length of the rear lot line
and back to a line drawn parallel to the rear lot line at a distance
therefrom equal to the depth of the required rear yard.
A yard extending along a side lot line and back to a line
drawn parallel to the side lot line at a distance therefrom equal
to the width of the required minimum side yard, but excluding any
area encompassed within a required front or rear yard. Dimensions
of minimum side yards specified in the district regulations of this
chapter refer to the required width of each side yard rather than
to the total width of both side yards, unless otherwise specified.
The map incorporated into this chapter as part hereof, designating
zoning districts.
[1]
Editor's Note: See 35 ILCS 520/1 et seq.
[2]
Editor's Note: See 35 ILCS 520/1 et seq.
[3]
Editor's Note: See 410 ILCS 130/1 et seq.
[4]
Editor's Note: See 35 ILCS 520/1 et seq.
[5]
Editor's Note: See 35 ILCS 520/1 et seq.
[6]
Editor's Note: See 35 ILCS 520/1 et seq.
[7]
Editor's Note: See 35 ILCS 520/1 et seq.
[8]
Editor’s Note: The former definition of "medical cannabis
dispensing organization," amended 2-16-2015 by Ord. No. 2015-6, and
which immediately followed this definition, was repealed 12-16-2019
by FMC-2019-15. See now the definition of "cannabis-dispensing organization."
