(A) (1) In an industrial district, front, side and rear yards shall be provided on every lot occupied by a main, conditional or accessory building or use in accordance with the following Schedule of Minimum Yard Dimensions.
(2) All required yards, exclusive of paved areas, shall be landscaped. Neither gravel nor plastic chips shall be permitted as a substitute for natural grass in lawn areas. The Planning Commission shall require a planting buffer and/or a fence or wall, where necessary to protect residential districts adjacent to or across the street from an industrial district, in accordance with § 1280.10. Such planting buffer and/or fence or wall may extend into a front yard but shall not be planted or constructed within 15 feet of the planned right-of-way.
(B) The depth of the front yard of a corner lot shall be not less than the required setback from the front lot line as provided in this section. The width of a side yard on the side street shall be not less than 50 feet for a main or accessory building or use, except that for off-street parking and/or loading facilities such width shall be not less than ten feet. The minimum width of the opposite side yard or interior side yard shall be not less than the minimum dimensions provided in the Schedule of Minimum Yard Dimensions following.
Schedule of Minimum Yard Dimensions (In Feet)
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District | Permitted Building or Use | Front Yard (Measured from Street Right-of- Way) | Side Yard | Rear Yard | |||||
Lot Abuts Major or Arterial Street(a) | Lot Abuts Industrial Road | Adjoining Residential District | Adjoining Nonresidential District | Lot Adjoins Residential District | Lot Adjoins No Residentia l District | ||||
Minimum Adjacent Residential District | Other Side(e) | Minimum Total Both Sides | Minimum Each Side(e) | ||||||
Schedule of Minimum Yard Dimensions (In Feet)
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District | Permitted Building or Use | Front Yard (Measured from Street Right-of- Way) | Side Yard | Rear Yard | |||||
Lot Abuts Major or Arterial Street(a) | Lot Abuts Industrial Road | Adjoining Residential District | Adjoining Nonresidential District | Lot Adjoins Residential District | Lot Adjoins No Residentia l District | ||||
Minimum Adjacent Residential District | Other Side(e) | Minimum Total Both Sides | Minimum Each Side(e) | ||||||
Office- Laboratory | Main and accessory building or use | 150 | 100 | 150 | 25 | 75 | 25 | 100 | 50 |
Off-street parking and/or loading(b) | 150(c) | 100(c) | 50(d) | 5 | N.A. | 10 | 50(d) | 10 | |
Light Industrial | Main and accessory building or use | 100 | 50 | 150 | 25 | N.A. | 25 | 100 | 50 |
Off-street parking and/or loading(b) | 100(c) | 50(c) | 50(d) | 5 | N.A. | 25 | 50(d) | 10 | |
(a) Major or arterial streets include Boston, Broadview, Edgerton, Royalton and Harris Roads east of 1-77. | |||||||||
(b) Driveways shall be located a minimum of 30 feet from any side lot line and 70 feet from any side lot line adjoining a residential district. | |||||||||
(c) Visitor parking over and above the minimum parking requirement is permitted within a required front yard, the above regulations notwithstanding, but in no case shall such parking spaces be less than 75 feet from an existing or planned street right-of- way nor shall such visitor parking exceed 10% of the minimum parking requirement. | |||||||||
(d) Areas located adjacent to residential district lot lines shall provide a six foot solid fence and/or six foot masonry wall and/or 25 foot wide landscaped visual buffer with a mound at least 4 foot in height as determined by the Planning Commission. | |||||||||
(e) On corner lots, the side yard bounded by a street right-of-way shall be not less than 50 feet wide for main and accessory buildings or uses, except that for off-street parking and/or loading facilities such width shall be not less than ten feet. | |||||||||
N.A. - Not Applicable. | |||||||||
(Ord. 88-137, passed 9-6-1988; Ord. 47-98, passed 3-2-1998; Ord. 61-98, passed 4-20-1998
; Ord. 40- 2021, passed 7-6-2021)