(A) Purpose. The B3 District provides for those uses customarily expected to be located in an urban downtown environment such as retail, residential, governmental, office, cultural, hotel, entertainment and ancillary uses. This district also serves to maintain the traditional business core of the city, and allow a mix of businesses, office, governmental and residential uses to encourage social, cultural and civic functions.
(B) Permissive uses. The following are permissive uses:
(1) Antique shop;
(2) Arcade;
(3) Art and school supply store;
(4) Art gallery or studio;
(5) Assembly/banquet/meeting hall;
(6) Auction house;
(7) Automobile rentals;
(8) Bakery (retail);
(9) Barber shop;
(10) Beauty shop;
(11) Bed and breakfast;
(12) Bicycle sales and services;
(13) Boardinghouse;
(14) Book store;
(15) Bowling alley;
(16) Butcher/fish market (retail);
(17) Camera and photographic supply store;
(18) Candy and ice cream store;
(19) Carpet and rug store;
(20) Catering service;
(21) Child care center, pre-kindergarten, kindergarten, play, special and other schools;
(22) China and glassware store;
(23) Cigar, cigarette, tobacco store;
(24) Civic theater;
(25) Clinic;
(26) Clothing store;
(27) Club or lodge (private);
(28) Cocktail lounge, bar, tavern or nightclub;
(29) Coffee, café or teahouse;
(30) Community facilities;
(31) Computer store;
(32) Contractor’s office and indoor storage;
(33) Convenience store (without gas pumps);
(34) Copy shop;
(35) Craft and hobby shop;
(36) Currency exchange;
(37) Dance hall;
(38) Day care home;
(39) Dental office;
(40) Department store;
(41) Display and salesroom;
(42) Dormitory;
(43) Dressmaker;
(44) Dry cleaner;
(45) Educational and philanthropic institution;
(46) Electrical, electronic and/or appliance store;
(47) Farm implements (sale or repair);
(48) Feed store;
(49) Financial institution;
(50) Flower and plant shop;
(51) Funeral home or mortuary;
(52) Furniture repair, cleaning or refinishing store;
(53) Furniture store;
(54) Furrier shop;
(55) Garden supply store;
(56) Gift shop;
(57) Grocery store;
(58) Hardware store;
(59) Health club, gymnasium and/or spa;
(60) Health food store;
(61) Hospital/trauma center;
(62) Hotel/motel;
(63) Interior decorating shop;
(64) Jewelry store;
(65) Laboratory research testing;
(66) Laundromat;
(67) Leather and luggage store;
(68)
Light metal fabrication (when all activities are an accessory use to the main use, storage of any and all materials and equipment shall take place within completely enclosed buildings and shall not create noise, vibration, odor, dust or any other condition which might be disturbing to occupants of adjacent buildings;)
(69) Loan office;
(70) Locksmith;
(71) Mail-order store;
(72) Medical office;
(73) Motorcycle sales, service;
(74) Multi-family dwelling;
(75) Museum;
(76) Musical instruments sales and service;
(77) Newspaper offices and printing;
(78) Nursing home, assisted living center, supportive living facility;
(79) Office equipment and supplies, sales/service store;
(80) Packaging products and service;
(81) Paint and wallpaper store;
(82) Parking lot;
(83) Pawn shop;
(84) Personal service shop;
(85) Pet shop;
(86) Pharmacy/drug store;
(87) Photography studio;
(88) Picture frame sales or service;
(89) Plumbing supplies and fixtures, sales and service (retail);
(90) Pool hall;
(91) Post office;
(92) Professional office;
(93) Public building;
(94) Public library;
(95) Radio and TV station or studio (no free-standing towers);
(96) Religious institution/church;
(97) Restaurants without drive-through;
(98) Service and repair establishment;
(99) Shoe repair;
(100) Shoe store;
(101) Shooting gallery (indoor);
(102) Sign shop;
(103) Single-family dwellings (second story or above);
(104) Sporting good store;
(105) Stationery store;
(106) Studio for the instruction of photography, music, drama or dance;
(107) Tailor;
(108) Theater;
(109) Trade or business school;
(110) Transit station;
(111) Travel bureau or agency;
(112) Toy store;
(113) Upholstery store; and
(114) Watch, clock, sales and repair shop.
(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) 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 soundproofed;
(2) Community residence (group) - see § 152.114;
(3) Crematory, if accessory to a funeral home or mortuary;
(4) Farming, rooftop (up to 5,000 sq. ft.);
(5) Farming, urban (indoor, up to 5,000 sq. ft.);
(6) 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;
(7) 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;
(8) 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
(9) 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) Ambulance service;
(2) Auto repair shop;
(3) Automobile accessory store (tires, batteries and the like);
(4) Automobile sales agency;
(5) Car wash;
(6) Convenience store (with gas pumps);
(7) Filling/service station or quick-lube establishment;
(8) Gun shop;
(9) Halfway house, subject to the provisions outlined in § 152.113;
(10) Kennel, animal center, animal obedience school (excludes outdoor kennels);
(11) Liquor store;
(12) Product assembly;
(13) Skating rink (indoor and outdoor); and
(14) Storage (mini-self service).
(E) Height limits. No building or structure shall be erected or structurally altered to exceed 100 feet, provided that where the lot is adjacent to a lot line in an R District, the building shall be set back from the lot line one foot for each seven feet of building height. 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) No minimum lot area.
(2) No minimum lot width.
(Ord. 10-3277, § 1-5.13, passed 1-4-2010; Ord. 12-3343, passed 1-23-2012; Ord. 13-3421, passed 10-21-2013; Ord. 17-3538, passed 2-6-2017; Ord. 19-3591, passed 9-3-2019; Ord. 20-3609, passed 4-6-2020; Ord. 21-3632, passed 2-22-2021)