(A) Purpose. The B2 District provides for a wide range of businesses and services relying upon the patronage from areas beyond the immediate neighborhood in which they may be located.
(B) Permissive uses. The following are permissive uses:
(1) All permissive uses of the B1 District;
(2) Arcade;
(3) Archery range (indoor);
(4) Assembly/banquet/meeting hall;
(5) Auction house;
(6) Auto repair shop (repairs must be in an enclosed structure);
(7) Automobile accessory store (tires, batteries and the like);
(8) Bakery (retail);
(9) Bowling alley;
(10) Car wash;
(11) Catering service;
(12) Child care center, pre-kindergarten, kindergarten, play, special and other schools;
(13) Cigar, cigarette, tobacco store;
(14) Club or lodge (private);
(15) Commercial recreational uses;
(16) Computer store;
(17) Contractor’s office and storage;
(18) Convenience store (with or without gas pumps);
(19) Copy shop;
(20) Craft and hobby shop;
(21) Dance hall;
(22) Department store;
(23) Display and salesroom;
(24) Dressmaking, tailoring, shoe repair, upholstery and similar trade;
(25) Drive-in theater;
(26) Electrical, electronic and/or appliance store;
(27) Farm implements (sale and repair);
(28) Farming, rooftop;
(29) Farming, urban (indoor);
(30) Feed store;
(31) Filling/service station or quick lube establishment;
(32) Furniture, repair, cleaning or refinishing store;
(33) Furniture store;
(34) Furrier shop;
(35) Garden supply/greenhouse;
(36) Grocery store;
(37) Hardware store;
(38) Health club, gymnasium or spa;
(39) Home improvement store;
(40) Hospital/trauma center;
(41) Hotel/motel;
(42) Laboratory research testing;
(43) Laundromat;
(44) Mail-order store;
(45) Miniature golf (indoor);
(46) Motorcycle sales/service;
(47) Nursery/garden center (retail);
(48) Nursing home/assisted living center/supportive living facility;
(49) Office or store equipment and supplies, sales or service store;
(50) Packaging products and service;
(51) Pawn shop;
(52) Pet shop;
(53) Picture frame sales and service;
(54) Plumbing supplies and fixtures, sales/service (retail);
(55) Pool hall;
(56) Public library;
(57) Radio and TV station or studio (no free-standing towers);
(58) Rental of equipment or supplies;
(59) Restaurant (without drive-through);
(60) Sales office (sales and/or storage);
(61) Service and repair establishment;
(62) Shooting gallery (indoor);
(63) Sign shop;
(64) Sporting goods store;
(65) Tailor;
(66) Taxidermist;
(67) Theater;
(68) Toy store;
(69) Trade or business school; and
(70) Warehouse sales (retail).
(C) Conditional uses. The following uses are permitted by right, subject to the additional conditions listed herein, and provided the conditional uses shall comply with the height, area and parking regulations for similar uses. All proposed conditional uses shall be reviewed by the Director of Community Development or his or her designee to ensure compliance with the development standards listed herein.
(1) All conditional uses in the B1 District not already permitted in the B2 District;
(2) Accessory open storage of building material, lumber and machinery and pipe when the material is enclosed within, and does not exceed the height of, a solid fence at least six feet high;
(3) Animal hospital/veterinary clinic for the care and treatment of domestic pets and animals only when kennels are located entirely within the building and are sound-proofed;
(4) Automobile, boat, recreational vehicle or manufactured home sales, rental, storage or service, provided:
(a) A sales office equipped with washroom facilities is provided on-site; and
(b) All vehicle repair must be in an enclosed structure;
(5) Restaurant (any size with a drive-through subject to the conditions established in § 152.134(N));
(6) Storage of construction vehicles and heavy-duty trucks when the use is accessory to a permitted, conditional or special use;
(7) Multi-family dwellings, provided the dwellings existed on July 6, 2010;
(8) Medical cannabis dispensing organization, as defined in the “Compassionate Use of Medical Cannabis Pilot Program Act” (ILCS Ch. 430, Act 130, §§ 1 et. seq.) as now in force or hereafter amended, which is registered with the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation pursuant to said Act;
(9) Dispensary, as defined in the Cannabis Regulation and Tax Act (§ 1-10 of Public Act 101-0027) as now in force or hereafter amended, which is licensed by the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation pursuant to said Act;
(10) Infuser, as defined in the Cannabis Regulation and Tax Act (§ 1-10 of Public Act 101-0027) as now in force or hereafter amended, which is licensed by the Illinois Department of Agriculture pursuant to said Act;
(11) Transporter, as defined in the Cannabis Regulation and Tax Act (§ 1-10 of Public Act 101-0027) as now in force or hereafter amended, which is licensed by the Illinois Department of Agriculture pursuant to said Act; and
(12) Craft grower as defined in the Cannabis Regulation and Tax Act (§ 1-10 of Public Act 101-0027) as now in force or hereafter amended, which is licensed by the Illinois Department of Agriculture pursuant to said Act.
(D) Special uses. The following uses require a special use permit:
(1) All special uses in the B1 District not already listed as permissive or conditional in the B2 District;
(2) Adult entertainment establishment, subject to the provisions outlined in § 152.115;
(3) Amusement park;
(4) Cocktail lounge, bar, tavern or nightclub;
(5) Exterminating and fumigating shop;
(6) Golf driving range;
(7) Gun shop;
(8) Halfway house, subject to the provisions outlined in § 152.113;
(9) Junkyard;
(10) Kennel, animal shelter or animal obedience school;
(11) Landscape contractor’s storage yard;
(12) Liquor store;
(13) Miniature golf course (outdoor);
(14) Mini-warehouse;
(15) Product assembly;
(16) Racetrack;
(17) Skating rinks (indoor and outdoor);
(18) Storage (mini, self service); and
(19) Warehouse and storage building.
(E) Height limits. No building or structure shall be erected or structurally altered to exceed 45 feet. Height limits may be exceeded in accordance with the provisions outlined in § 152.030.
(F) Minimum yards. Every building hereafter erected or enlarged shall provide and maintain:
(1) Front yard may be zero feet or at least five feet;
(2) Side yard may be zero feet or at least five feet;
(3) Rear yard may be zero feet or at least five feet; and
(4) Minimum yards may be exceeded in accordance with the provisions outlined in § 152.031.
(G) Minimum lot areas and widths.
(1) Single-family dwellings shall have a minimum lot area of 7,500 square feet and width of 60 feet. All other uses shall have no minimum lot area.
(2) Except for single-family dwellings, no minimum lot width shall be required in the B2 District.
(Ord. 10-3277, § 1-5.12, passed 1-4-2010; Ord. 12-3343, passed 1-23-2012; Ord. 13-3421, passed 10-21-2013; Ord. 14-3451, passed 7-21-2014; Ord. 17-3538, passed 2-6-2017; Ord. 19-3591, passed 9-3-2019; Ord. 19-3594, passed 9-16-2019; Ord. 20-3609, passed 4-6-2020; Ord. 21-3632, passed 2-22-2021)