A. Purpose: The purpose of the HC Highway Commercial District is to provide for limited commercial uses which are oriented to the automobile and truck traffic at prominent locations in the vicinity of the Interstate I-90 and Route 20 interchange area. The regulations of this district are intended to provide for highway oriented retail and service establishments which offer a wide range of goods and services in locations which abut or front, and have access to, either directly or via frontage roads, heavily traveled major arterial roadways.
B. Land Use Regulations:
1. General Standards: Uses permitted in the HC District are subject to the following standards:
a. Enclosed Buildings: All business activity and servicing shall take place within completely enclosed buildings unless otherwise specified. All storage of property, except of motor vehicles in operable conditions, shall be in completely enclosed buildings or structures.
b. Accessory Uses: Outdoor accessory uses may be permitted by the Village Board in conformance with following requirements:
(1) The permitted outdoor accessory use shall be for the purpose of direct retail sales only, not for storage;
(2) The area of the permitted outdoor accessory use may not exceed ten percent (10%) of the indoor gross floor area of the related principal use on the same premises.
c. Off Street Loading And Parking: Off street loading and parking facilities for the storage of motor vehicles may be unenclosed throughout the HC District. Such unenclosed areas shall be effectively screened by a solid wall or fence (including solid entrance and exit gates) not less than six feet (6') nor more than eight feet (8') in height, or a landscaped buffer planted to effectively screen all parking and loading areas. (Ord. 92-10, 10-1-1992)
C. Permitted Uses: In a Highway Commercial District, the following permitted uses shall be allowed:
Automobile and truck sales.
Automobile parts and accessory stores.
Bakeries, which employ not more than eight (8) persons and where not more than fifty percent (50%) of the floor area is devoted to processing.
Banks, savings and loans and similar financial institutions.
Brew pubs.
Building-mounted and building-integrated Solar Energy Systems, as defined in and subject to the restrictions set forth in chapter 5, article XVIII of this Code.
Bus passenger stations, not including bus terminal parking lots.
Business machine sales and service.
Computer and data processing stores.
Convenience food stores.
Currency exchanges.
Employment agencies.
Establishments for machinery and appliance repair.
Feed stores.
Gasoline sales - retail, including vehicle repair.
General retail, with a minimum of seventy five percent (75%) of the gross floor area devoted to direct retail sales.
Greenhouses, retail.
Health and recreation clubs.
Hotels and motels, including dining and meeting rooms.
Kennels and animal hospitals.
Microbreweries.
Public park.
Public utility and service uses, including:
Electric substations and distribution centers.
Fire stations.
Municipal water filtration plants, pumping stations, reservoirs and sewage treatment plants.
Police stations.
Telephone exchanges, microwave relay towers and telephone transmission equipment buildings.
Restaurant: fast food.
Restaurants, with cocktail lounges as an accessory use.
D. Special Uses: In a Highway Commercial District, the following special uses shall be allowed:
Adult-use cannabis craft grower facility, when combined with an adult-use cannabis dispensing facility, as allowed by law and subject to the provisions of §§ 4-26-1 et seq. of the Village Code.
Adult-use cannabis dispensing facility, subject to the provisions of §§ 4-26-1 et seq. of the Village Code.
Automobile laundries.
Automobile service stations, including retail gasoline sales and vehicle repair.
Automobile/truck stops.
Blueprinting, photostating, printing and photocopying.
Building materials sales and storage.
Daycare center.
Dispensaries for medical cannabis, subject to the following restrictions:
1. No medical cannabis dispensing organization shall be located within one thousand feet (1,000') of any of the following uses, whether or not located within the Village:
a. Any public or private preschool, or any elementary or secondary school;
b. Any publicly or privately operated daycare center, daycare home, group daycare home or part day childcare facility; and
c. Any residential zoning district, or any residential use.
Provided, for purposes of this use, distances shall be measured in a straight line, without regard to intervening structures, from the nearest point of the building in which the proposed or existing medical cannabis dispensary is established to the nearest property line of a use or zoning district.
Dry cleaning establishments.
Outdoor amusement establishments, including golf driving ranges, miniature golf courses, kiddie parks and other similar amusement centers.
Post Offices, including distribution centers.
Wind energy systems, as defined in and subject to the restrictions set forth in chapter 5, article XVII of this Code.
E. Prohibited Uses: In a Highway Commercial District, the following uses shall be prohibited:
Cartage and express facilities.
Chemical processing and production.
Dental and medical clinics.
Mail order houses.
Manufacturing facilities.
Personnel training center.
Professional offices.
Radio, television and recording studios.
Research laboratories and facilities.
Trailer coaches or mobile homes and mobile home parks.
Warehousing, storage and distribution facilities.
Woodworking and wood products.
F. Lot Area, Yard And Bulk Requirements:
1. Minimum lot area | 10,000 square feet | |
2. Minimum lot width | 75 feet | |
3. Minimum lot depth | 125 feet | |
4. Minimum front yard setback: | ||
Adjacent to an arterial road | 40 feet | |
Adjacent to an internal or collector road | 25 feet | |
5. Minimum rear yard setback: | ||
Adjacent to an arterial road | 40 feet | |
Adjacent to an internal or collector road | 10 feet | |
Abutting an adjoining property | 10 feet | |
6. Minimum side yard setback | 10 feet each side | |
7. Minimum corner side yard setback | The requirements for a corner side yard shall be the same as the requirements for a front yard | |
8. Minimum yard abutting a residential or agricultural district | 20 feet | |
9. Maximum building lot coverage (principal and accessory buildings) | 50 percent | |
10. Maximum building and parking impervious surface coverage | 90 percent | |
11. Floor area ratio | 1.8 | |
12. Height of principal use | 3 stories, or 35 feet, whichever is greater | |
13. Height of accessory use | 1 story, or 15 feet, whichever is greater | |
G. Off Street Parking And Loading Requirements:
1. Compliance: Off street parking and loading requirements shall be provided in accordance with provisions set forth in article XI of this chapter.
2. Location Of Off Street Parking Areas:
a. Off street parking spaces shall not be located in the first fifteen feet (15') of the required front yard when adjacent to a collector road, nor in the first twenty five feet (25') of the front yard when adjacent to an arterial road.
b. Off street parking spaces are prohibited in the required side yards of lots in the HC District.
c. Off street parking spaces shall not be prohibited in the first fifteen feet (15') of the required rear yard when adjacent to a collector street; in the first twenty five feet (25') of the required rear yard when adjacent of an arterial road; nor in the first ten feet (10') of the required rear yard when adjacent to commercial property. (Ord. 92-10, 10-1-1992; amd. Ord. 11-20, 9-1-2011; Ord. 14-21, 5-1-2014; Ord. 14-22, 5-1-2014; Ord. 18-38, 11-1-2018; Ord. 20-09, 2-6-2020; Ord. 22-24, 9-15-2022)