(A) ABUT. To have a common property line or district line.
(B) ABANDONMENT. An action to give up one's right or interest in a property or a use.
(C) ABOVE-GROUND SERVICE FACILITY (SERVICE FACILITY or SERVICE FACILITIES).
An above-ground structure, used by a service entity to provide service to the public.
(D) ACCESS DRIVE. An unobstructed way of specified width containing a drive or roadway that provides vehicular access within a development and connects to a public street.
(E) ACCESSORY USE, GENERAL.
(1) A structure, building, or use that is subordinate to and serves a principal building or principal use; is subordinate in area, extent or purpose to the principal building or principal use served; contributes to the comfort, convenience or necessity of occupants of the principal building or principal use served; and is located on the same zoning lot as the principal building or principal use served, with the single exception of such accessory off-street parking facilities as are permitted to locate elsewhere than on the same zoning lot with the building or use served.
(2) Accessory uses otherwise listed in Table 16-3-11 shall not be considered a general accessory use.
(F) ACUTE CARE CENTER. A facility for the short-term, outpatient treatment of severe injuries or episodes of illness, urgent medical conditions, or during recovery from surgery.
(G) ADULT USE CANNABIS DISPENSING ORGANIZATION. A facility operated by an organization or business that is licensed by the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation to acquire cannabis from licensed cannabis business establishments 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, per the Cannabis Regulation and Tax Act.
(H) ADULT ORIENTED USES. Any facility that provides goods or services or is otherwise
oriented to the display of materials characterized as sexual or adult in nature, such as videos, movies, slides, photos, books, or magazines; or actual persons displaying and/or touching sexually specified areas. Examples include adult bookstores, adult entertainment cabarets, adult entertainment centers, adult gift shops, and adult movie theaters, as defined in this Article 2.
(I) ADDITION. An extension or increase in floor area or height of a building or structure.
(J) ADJACENT. Touching, lying immediately next to, abutting, and/or sharing a common wall or lot line.
(K) ADJOINING. Touching or contiguous, as distinguished from lying near or adjacent.
(L) AIRPORT. Any area of land which is used or intended for use for the landing and taking off of aircraft, and any appurtenant areas which are used or intended for use for airport buildings or other airport facilities located thereon.
(M) ALLEY. Any right-of-way which is used primarily for vehicular traffic along the side or in the rear of properties and which affords only a secondary means of access to abutting properties.
(N) ALTERATION. Any change in size, shape, occupancy or use of a building or structure.
(O) AMUSEMENT DEVICE. An amusement device shall mean any machine, game, table or device which is designed, intended, displayed or kept as an amusement game, test of skill or entertainment, and may be operated by the public upon the insertion of coin, slug, token, plate, disc or the use of which is made available for any valuable consideration; it is operated by the manipulation of buttons, dials, balls, wheels, trigger devices or electrical impulses, whether or not registering a score, offering a prize or offering free replays. AMUSEMENT DEVICE shall include, but not be limited to, devices commonly known as pinball machines, marble machines, video games, electronic games, skill ball and all games, operations or transactions similar thereto under whatever name they may be indicated. Not included within the definition of AMUSEMENT DEVICE are regulation bowling alleys, children's rides, and State of Illinois licensed video gaming terminals.
(P) AMPHITHEATER. A sloping, semicircular seating gallery.
(Q) ANIMAL HOSPITAL. Any facility maintained by or for the use of a licensed veterinarian in the diagnosis, treatment, or prevention of animal diseases wherein the animals are limited to dogs, cats, or other comparable household pets and wherein the overnight care of said animals is prohibited except when necessary in the medical treatment of the animal.
(R) ANTENNA STRUCTURE. The rigid portion of the assembly which receives or transmits radio frequency energy, together with the mast or tower upon which such assembly is mounted, excluding non-rigid items such as wire, cable transmission lines, guy wires or guy wire anchors.
(S) APARTMENT. A room or suite of rooms in a multiple-unit structure which is arranged, designed, used or intended to be used as a single housekeeping unit. Complete kitchen facilities (sink, stove, refrigerator and storage facilities) permanently installed must always be included for each APARTMENT.
(T) ARCHERY RANGE. An outdoor facility that may include buildings or structures used for target practice with bows and arrows.
(U) ART GALLERY, COMMERCIAL. A for profit establishment engaged in the sale, loan, or display of art, books, paintings, sculpture, or other works of art, not including libraries or museums.
(V) ASSISTED LIVING FACILITY. A facility that provides community-based residential care for at least three unrelated adults (at least 80% of whom are
55 years of age or older) who need assistance with activities of daily living (ADLs), including personal, supportive, and intermittent health-related services available 24 hours per day, if needed, to meet the scheduled and unscheduled needs of a resident.
(W) ATHLETIC COURTS. A hard-surfaced area where sports such as but not limited to tennis, racquet ball, handball, racquetball, and basketball are played. Shall not include driveways as defined herein.
(X) ATHLETIC FIELDS. A non-hard-surfaced area where sports such as but not limited to soccer, baseball, football, and lacrosse are played.
(Y) AUTOBODY REPAIR, ALL VEHICLES. A facility or portion thereof that conducts engine rebuilding or major reconditioning of worn or damaged motor vehicles or trailers; collision service, including body, frame or fender straightening or repairing and painting of vehicles.
(Z) AUTOMOBILE AND COMMERCIAL VEHICLE FUELING PLAZA. A retail facility that sells gasoline and diesel fuel to the public for the fueling of automobiles and commercial vehicles up to and including semi-trucks, including but not limited to one or more of the following accessory uses: convenience store, restaurant, and short-term truck parking of not more than two hours. The facility shall not include shower facilities, laundry facilities, sleeping quarters or overnight parking or storage of commercial vehicles.
(AA) AWNING. A roof-like cover, temporary in nature, which projects from the wall of a building or overhangs the public way.
(Ord. 2021-05-15, passed 5-3-2021; Ord. 2021-09-45, passed 9-20-2021)