§ 159-5.101 PURPOSES.
This part sets forth detailed descriptions, characteristics, and the respective dimensional and bulk regulations, requirements, and design standards of the nonresidential zoning districts.
   (A)   NB District: The NB Neighborhood Business District is intended to:
      (1)   Be located for the convenience of persons residing in nearby residential areas and is, thus, limited in its functions to accommodating the basic day to day shopping and service needs of the residents living in the adjacent residential areas.
      (2)   Allow for the clustering of buildings on parcels of land under individual or multiple ownership.
      (3)   Provide for an arrangement of retail trade establishments that are compatible in function and operation.
      (4)   Be compatible with surrounding land uses of a lesser intensity.
      (5)   Require increased compatibility with a suburban character as set forth in the Village of Lindenhurst Comprehensive Plan and amendments thereto.
      (6)   Provide a full range of public services as required for the NB District. This district is intended to be served by public sanitary sewer and water supply facilities.
   (B)   CB District: The CB Community Business District is intended to:
      (1)   Be located to accommodate the needs of a much larger consumer population than served by the NB Neighborhood Business District.
      (2)   Provide for relatively large groupings of retail sales and customer service establishments which offer a wide range of goods and services in a community serving shopping area.
      (3)   Be applied in locations which abut or front, and have access to, either directly or via frontage roads, heavily traveled major arterial roadways.
      (4)   Not foster "strip" development patterns along major arterial streets and highways. While the CB District is intended to be vehicular traffic oriented, vehicular access points are intended to be limited.
      (5)   Be characterized by business establishments that have on site parking for customer automobiles combined with a pedestrian oriented shopping environment.
      (6)   Be characterized by buildings clustered on parcels of land under individual or multiple ownership.
      (7)   Provide for an arrangement of retail trade establishments which are compatible in function and operation.
      (8)   Require increased compatibility with a suburban character as set forth in the Village of Lindenhurst Comprehensive Plan and amendments thereto.
      (9)   Provide a full range of public services as required for the CB District. This district is intended to be served by public sanitary sewer and water supply facilities.
   (C)   CBR-2 District: The CBR-2 Community Business and Residential District 2 is intended to:
      (1)   Be a regional oriented, principally commercial district which allows nonground level multiple-family residential dwelling units.
      (2)   Be located to accommodate the needs of a much larger consumer population than served by the CB Community Business District and NB Neighborhood Business District.
      (3)   Provide for relatively large groupings of retail sales and customer service establishments within planned large developments which offer a wide range of goods and services in a pedestrian oriented, regional serving shopping area as well as providing for nonground level multiple-family residential dwelling units on site.
      (4)   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).
      (5)   Not foster "strip" development patterns along the major arterial roadways of U.S. Route 45 and Illinois Route 132 (Grand Avenue). While the CBR-2 District is intended to accommodate vehicular traffic, vehicular access points are intended to be limited.
      (6)   Be characterized by business establishments and nonground level multiple-family residential dwelling units that have on site parking for customer and resident automobiles combined with a highly pedestrianized shopping environment.
      (7)   Be characterized by buildings clustered on parcels of land under either individual or multiple ownership.
      (8)   Provide for an arrangement of retail trade and service establishments and nonground level multiple-family residential dwelling units which are compatible in intensity, operation, and architectural and urban design appearance.
      (9)   Require increased compatibility with an urban character as set forth in the Village of Lindenhurst Comprehensive Plan and amendments thereto.
      (10)   Accommodate new retail sales and service activities and nonground level residential dwellings that are characterized by buildings which abut the street right-of-way or have small setbacks.
      (11)   Achieve the traditional central business district, or "downtown", characteristics within the framework of new mixed use retail sales, service, and nonground level multiple-family residential development.
      (12)   Be characterized by well placed and designed amenities which are provided, constructed, and/or installed as development occurs within the CBR-2 District as an integral part of all such development.
      (13)   Provide a full range of public services. This district is intended to be served by public sanitary sewer and water supply facilities.
   (D)   PBC District: The PBC Planned Business Center District is intended to:
      (1)   Accommodate commercial growth in that area of the Village and environs which abuts U.S. Route 45 where other land uses may not be appropriate and is not intended to be used in any other area of the Village.
      (2)   Serve a trade area reaching out several miles or more and embracing a large segment of the urban, suburban, and rural Lake County region, including areas located outside of the Village or its immediate surrounding unincorporated towns or incorporated municipalities.
      (3)   Accommodate "clustered" commercial development patterns on parcels of land under individual or multiple ownership, not linear or "strip", commercial uses, with a wide range of retail business and complementary uses.
      (4)   Impose limitations on the use of excessive vehicular access points along the U.S. Route 45 corridor.
      (5)   Assist in efficiently organizing on site vehicular traffic so as to facilitate movement between parcels without accessing U.S. Route 45 and to protect the safety and carrying capacity associated with U.S. Route 45.
      (6)   Accommodate business establishments that have generously landscaped on site parking for customer automobiles.
      (7)   Accommodate the use of shared driveways for abutting property owners, and properly spaced driveway access points in order to protect the carrying capacity and travel speeds of U.S. Route 45.
      (8)   Increase compatibility with the suburban character of the Village as set forth in the Village of Lindenhurst Comprehensive Plan and amendments thereto.
      (9)   Provide a full range of public services as required for the PBC District. This district is intended to be served by public sanitary sewer and water supply facilities.
   (E)   O Office District: The O Office District is intended to:
      (1)   Provide for the orderly and attractive development and grouping of professional office, financial office, or other office related activities, in appropriate and convenient locations.
      (2)   Provide adequate on site parking areas.
      (3)   Promote the compatibility of character, appearance, and operation of uses in the O District with the surrounding area.
      (4)   Increase compatibility with the suburban character of the Village as set forth in the Village of Lindenhurst Comprehensive Plan and amendments thereto.
      (5)   Provide a full range of public services as required for the O District. This district is intended to be served by public sanitary sewer and water supply facilities.
   (F)   BK District: The BK Business Park District is intended to:
      (1)   Provide for the development of the attractive grouping of office, light manufacturing, light industrial development uses, and limited ancillary service uses in a campus setting which serve the needs of the occupants of the BK Business Park District.
      (2)   Provide for uses of a limited intensity.
      (3)   Provide an aesthetically pleasing, well landscaped environment.
      (4)   Provide for ample off street parking and loading areas and landscape planting and screening of adjacent land uses of a lower intensity.
      (5)   Be applied to those areas of the Village identified for business park development by the adopted Village of Lindenhurst Comprehensive Plan and amendments thereto.
      (6)   Accommodate industrial or business parks under unified design and ownership.
      (7)   Permit moderate intensity development in a manner that enhances and protects the suburban residential character of the Village through the use of area and bulk requirements.
      (8)   Be located adjacent to arterial streets and highways because of its high trip generation rates.
      (9)   Provide a full range of public services as required for the PBC District. This district is intended to be served by public sanitary sewer and water supply facilities.
   (G)   M District: The M Limited Manufacturing District is not intended to accommodate industrial or business parks under unified design and ownership. The M Limited Manufacturing District is intended to:
      (1)   Provide for manufacturing, industrial, warehousing, limited commercial, and ancillary uses of a limited nature and size in locations where the relative proximity to other uses requires more restrictive regulation.
      (2)   Be used in that area of the Village contiguous to Grand Avenue and generally bounded by Grand Avenue on the southwest, Old Elm Road on the east, Burr Oak Lane and Fairfield Road on the north, and Hawthorn Lane on the west.
      (3)   Increase the compatibility of manufacturing, industrial, warehousing, limited commercial, and ancillary uses with the suburban character of the Village as set forth in the Village of Lindenhurst Comprehensive Plan and amendments thereto.
      (4)   Permit moderate intensity manufacturing, industrial, warehousing, limited commercial, and ancillary uses in such a manner that enhances and protects the suburban residential character of the Village through the use of area and bulk requirements.
      (5)   Provide a full range of public services as required for the M District. This district is intended to be served by public sanitary sewer and water supply facilities.
   (H)   I District: The I Institutional District is intended to:
      (1)   Eliminate the ambiguity of maintaining, in unrelated use districts, areas which are under public or public related ownership and where the use for public, or quasi-public purpose, is anticipated to be permanent.
      (2)   Apply to those lands where existing or proposed Federal, State, or local government activities are conducted, and to major public and private educational and other nonprofit organization facilities.
      (3)   Require increased compatibility with a suburban character as set forth in the Village of Lindenhurst Comprehensive Plan and amendments thereto through the use of area and bulk regulations.
      (4)   Accommodate moderate intensity development in such a manner that enhances and protects the suburban residential character of the Village.
      (5)   Provide a full range of public services as required for the I District. This district is intended to be served by public sanitary sewer and water supply facilities.
   (I)   RO District: The RO Recreation and Open Space District is intended to:
      (1)   Provide for areas where the park, recreational, and open space needs, both public and private, of the populace can be met without undue disturbance of natural resources and uses of other adjacent zoning districts.
      (2)   Establish requirements to increase park, recreational, and open space compatibility with the suburban and open space character of the Village as set forth in the Village of Lindenhurst Comprehensive Plan and amendments thereto.
      (3)   Require increased compatibility with a suburban and open space character as set forth in the Village of Lindenhurst Comprehensive Plan and amendments thereto through the use of area and bulk regulations.
      (4)   Provide a full range of public services as required for the RO District. This district is intended to be served by public sanitary sewer and water supply facilities.
(Ord. 17-2-2065, passed 2-27-2017)