The residential district regulations are intended to protect the overall character of the Village by preserving established residential areas and encouraging new development consistent with the character of the Village. The Village has established the following residential zoning districts:
(A) E Estate District: The E Estate Single-Family Residential District is intended to:
(1) Provide for estate type housing on very large lots as set forth in the Village of Lindenhurst Comprehensive Plan and components thereof.
(2) Preserve and enhance the estate character of surrounding areas and the attractiveness associated with such areas.
(3) Promote open space and natural resource base protection through the options provided in this district.
(4) Have new development in this district be served by public sanitary sewer and water supply facilities.
(B) SE Suburban Estate District: The SE Suburban Estate Single- Family Residential District is intended to:
(1) Provide for the continuance of suburban/estate lots as set forth in the Village of Lindenhurst Comprehensive Plan and components thereof.
(2) Be used in order to protect the character of building bulk in established suburban/estate residential neighborhoods and subdivisions.
(3) Promote open space and natural resource base protection through the options provided in this district.
(4) Serve as a transitional zoning district between the E Estate Single-Family Residential District and the S Suburban Single- Family Residential District as well as between E Estate Single- Family Residential District and the R-1 Suburban Neighborhood Conservancy District.
(5) Be served by public sanitary sewer and water supply facilities.
(C) S Suburban District: The S Suburban Single-Family Residential District is intended to:
(1) Provide for new development in areas in a manner that is consistent with the Village of Lindenhurst Comprehensive Plan and components thereof.
(2) Provide open space in this district in order to maintain a suburban character.
(3) Promote open space and natural resource base protection through the options provided in this district.
(4) Reinforce the open nature of the Village's suburban environment.
(5) Not encourage a continuous pattern of like lots, but to have a creative mix of variable lot sizes.
(6) Serve as a transitional district between the less dense SE Suburban Estate Single-Family Residential district and the higher density R-1 Suburban Neighborhood Conservancy District.
(7) Be served by public sanitary sewer and water supply facilities.
(D) R-1 Suburban Neighborhood Conservancy District: The R-1 Suburban Neighborhood Conservancy District is intended to:
(1) Permit the continuation of the existing pattern of development on existing lots of record in a manner that is consistent with the Village of Lindenhurst Comprehensive Plan and components thereof.
(2) Accommodate existing developed areas which are existing lots of record and were formerly zoned under the R-1 Residential District of the Village of Lindenhurst zoning ordinance.
(3) Not accommodate newly developing areas of the Village.
(E) R-2 District: The R-2 District is the least dense of the multi-family residence district types. The R-2 Multiple-Family Restricted Dwelling District is intended to:
(1) Establish and preserve 2-family residential dwelling districts in the Village.
(2) Permit higher density suburban type 2-family residential development in a manner that is consistent with the provision of a high quality suburban community character as set forth in the Village of Lindenhurst Comprehensive Plan and components thereof.
(3) Provide affordable housing opportunities for moderate income residents, employees of local businesses, and residents on fixed incomes, and other persons preferring 2-family residential dwelling living.
(4) Provide areas of open space in order to maintain suburban community character.
(5) Promote open space and natural resource base protection.
(6) Reinforce the open nature of the Village's suburban environment.
(7) Be used as a transitional district between the less dense R-1 Suburban Neighborhood Conservancy District and the higher density R-3 Multiple-Family Dwelling District.
(8) Be used as a transitional district between the less dense S Suburban Single-Family Residential District and the higher density R-3 Multiple-Family Dwelling District.
(9) Be served by public sanitary sewer and water supply facilities.
(F) R-3 Multiple-Family District: The R-3 Multiple-Family Dwelling District is intended to:
(1) Preserve and establish multi-family residential districts in the Village.
(2) Permit high density urban type multiple-family residential development in a manner that is consistent with the provision of a high quality urban environment within a suburban community as set forth in the Village of Lindenhurst Comprehensive Plan and components thereof.
(3) Provide affordable housing opportunities for moderate income residents, employees of local businesses, and residents on fixed incomes, and other persons preferring multiple-family dwelling living.
(4) Include apartments, townhouses, and/or other types of housing including housing oriented toward small household sizes such as "empty nesters" and/or senior citizens.
(5) Provide areas of open space in order to maintain its suburban character.
(6) Be used as a transitional district between the less dense R-2 Multiple-Family Restricted Dwelling District and other higher intensity business, industrial, and public and semipublic districts with the provision of adequate landscape buffer yards.
(7) Be served by public sanitary sewer and water supply facilities.
(G) R-4 Multiple-Family District: The R-4 Multiple-Family Dwelling District is intended to:
(1) Preserve and establish multi-family residential districts in the Village.
(2) Permit urban type, multiple-family row home type residential development in a manner that is consistent with the provision of a high quality urban environment within a suburban community as set forth in the Village of Lindenhurst Comprehensive Plan and components thereof.
(3) Be applied in locations which have immediate access to, either directly or via internal public or private roads, the major arterial roadways of U.S. Route 45 and Illinois Route 132 (Grand Avenue).
(4) Allow for the provision of mixed limited single-family detached housing with multiple-family attached row houses in order to provide for housing market choice.
(5) Provide affordable housing opportunities for moderate income residents, employees of local businesses, and residents on fixed incomes, and other persons preferring multiple-family dwelling living.
(6) Include limited single-family detached dwelling units, row houses, and residential housing for the elderly.
(7) Provide areas of open space in order to maintain its suburban/urban character.
(8) Be used as a transitional district between the less dense R-2 Multiple-Family Restricted Dwelling District and/or R-3 Multiple- Family Dwelling District and other higher intensity business (such as the CBR-2 Community Business and Residential District 2), industrial, and public and semipublic districts with the provision of adequate landscape buffer yards.
(9) Be served by public sanitary sewer and water supply facilities.
(Ord. 17-2-2065, passed 2-27-2017)