A. Purpose: The regulations of this district are intended to encourage a mixture of office, research, warehouse, and restricted manufacturing activities, together with complementary business and commercial uses in high quality campuslike settings.
B. Land Use Regulations:
1. General Standards:
a. Uses permitted in the O-M District are subject to the following standards:
(1) Any production, processing, cleaning, servicing, testing, repair, or storage of goods, materials, or products shall take place without creating disturbing influences to the use and occupancy of adjoining properties.
(2) All business, production, servicing, and processing shall take place within completely enclosed buildings unless otherwise specified. All storage of property, except of motor vehicles in operable condition, shall be in completely enclosed buildings or structures.
(3) Off street loading and parking facilities for the storage of motor vehicles may be unenclosed throughout the O-M 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.
C. Permitted Uses: In an O-M Office Manufacturing District, the following uses shall be permitted:
Advertising agency.
Banks, savings and loans, and similar financial institutions.
Blueprinting, photostating, printing, and photocopying.
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 and professional offices.
Business machine sales and service.
Computer and data processing.
Currency exchanges.
Daycare center.
Dental and medical clinics.
Employment agencies.
Health and recreation clubs.
Hotels/motels.
Mail order houses.
Offices for commercial services, including advertising, radio, TV, newspapers, and printing.
Post Offices, including distribution centers.
Public parks.
Radio, television, and recording studios.
Research laboratories and facilities.
Restaurants.
Retail stores.
Tattoo parlors, and body piercing establishments, subject to the following restrictions:
1. Licensing: Any tattoo parlor, or body piercing establishment, and all employees and agents related thereto, shall conform to and satisfy all applicable State of Illinois and any other governmental licensing requirements.
2. Distancing Requirements: Any tattoo parlor or body piercing establishment shall be located not less than one thousand feet (1,000') from a residence district; and in addition not less than one thousand feet (1,000') from any existing residence dwelling, daycare establishment, public park or playground, and any school, or place of worship. For purposes of this subsection, distance shall be measured in a straight line from the boundary line of the lot on which the use is located or is to be located, to the nearest applicable zoning district boundary line, or to the lot line of any existing residence dwelling, daycare service, public park or playground, or school, or place of worship, as the case may be.
Warehousing, storage, and distribution facilities.
Woodworking and wood products assembly.
D. Special Uses: In an O-M Office Manufacturing District, the following special uses shall be allowed:
Adult-use cannabis craft grower facility, subject to the provisions of §§ 4-26-1
et seq. of the Village Code. When combined with an adult-use cannabis dispensing facility and/or an adult-use cannabis processing facility, as allowed by law and subject to the provisions of §§ 4-26-1
et seq. of the Village Code.
Adult-use cannabis cultivation center facility, subject to the provisions of §§ 4-26-1
et seq. of the Village Code.
Adult-use cannabis infuser facility, subject to the provisions of §§ 4-26-1
et seq. of the Village Code.
Adult-use cannabis processing facility, subject to the provisions of §§ 4-26-1
et seq. of the Village Code.
Adult-use cannabis transporting facility, subject to the provisions of §§ 4-26-1
et seq. of the Village Code.
Bedding manufacture.
Building materials sales and storage.
Carpet manufacturing.
Cartage and express facilities.
Cloth products manufacture.
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.
Electrical, lighting, and wiring equipment.
Food manufacture, packaging, and processing.
Ground mounted Solar Energy Systems, as defined in and subject to the restrictions set forth in chapter 5, article XVIII of this Code.
Insulating materials manufacture.
Leather product assembly.
Microbreweries.
Plastic fabrication.
Pottery and ceramics manufacture.
Rope, cord, and twine assembly.
Wind energy systems, as defined in and subject to the restrictions set forth in chapter 5, article XVII of this Code.
Other manufacturing, processing, and storage uses determined by the Planning and Zoning Commission to be of the same general character as the uses allowable in this section, and found not to be obnoxious, unhealthful, or offensive by reason of the potential emission or transmission of noise, vibration, smoke, dust, odors, toxic or noxious matter, glare, or heat.
E. Prohibited Uses: In an O-M District, the following uses shall be prohibited:
Heavy manufacturing.
Trailer coaches.
F. Lot Area, Yard And Bulk Requirements:
1. Minimum lot area | 130,680 square feet (3 acres) | |
2. Minimum lot width | 325 feet | |
3. Minimum lot depth | 400 feet | |
4. Minimum front yard setback: | ||
Adjacent to an arterial road | 40 feet | |
Adjacent to an internal or collector road | 40 feet | |
5. Minimum rear yard setback: | ||
Adjacent to an arterial road | 30 feet | |
Adjacent to an internal or collector road | 30 feet | |
Abutting an adjoining property | 30 feet | |
6. Minimum side yard setback | 30 feet each side | |
7. Minimum corner side yard setback | The requirements for a corner side yard shall be the same as the requirement for a front yard | |
8. Minimum yard abutting a residential or agricultural district | 40 feet | |
9. Maximum lot coverage | 80 percent | |
10. Maximum impervious surface coverage | 80 percent | |
11. Floor area ratio | 1.8 | |
12. Height of principal use | 3 stories, or 40 feet, whichever is less | |
13. Height of accessory use | 1 story, or 15 feet, whichever is less | |
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. Land Banking Of Required Parking Spaces:
a. The Village Board may, by special use permit, reduce the total number of off street parking spaces required to be paved, as required in article XI of this chapter, for business and professional office uses in the O-M District by up to fifteen percent (15%), subject to the following conditions:
(1) The Village Board shall have the right to direct and require the property owner or his successor, at any time subsequent to the completion of the development, to increase the number of paved parking spaces provided on the property to serve the completed project, up to the maximum required by article XI of this chapter.
(2) An application for a special use permit shall be accompanied by alternate detailed parking plans. One plan shall show the full number of parking spaces required by article XI of this chapter; the other plan shall show the reduced number of paved parking spaces proposed to be provided, and shall show the landscaping treatment of areas proposed to be reserved to satisfy the total number of parking spaces required by article XI of this chapter. Both such plans shall show the location on the site of all parking areas, and the exact number of parking spaces to be provided.
(3) The applicant shall file with the Village Clerk his/her unconditional agreement and covenant that areas reserved for future parking shall be maintained as landscaped open space until and unless required to be used for off street parking in accordance with the approved special use permit. The ordinance granting such permit (including both plans), together with such agreement and covenant, shall be recorded with the Recorder of Deeds of Kane County, Illinois.
3. Location Of Off Street Parking Areas:
a. Required off street parking spaces shall not be located in the first forty feet (40') of the front yard, rear yard, or required side yards of lots in the O-M District. (Ord. 98-14, 7-16-1998; amd. Ord. 99-25, 8-19-1999; Ord. 11-20, 9-1-2011; Ord. 14-20, 5-1-2014; 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. 21-15, 4-15-2021)