(A) General. The Highway Business District is intended to provide for the establishment of certain highway oriented commercial activities and to prohibit inappropriate and incompatible commercial activities. Such areas must be carefully located so as not to unduly constrict, impede, or reduce the normal flow of traffic and to provide for reasonably safe access and egress from adjacent highways.
(B) Conditions of use.
(1) Dwelling units, lodging rooms; not permitted below second floor. Dwelling units and lodging rooms are not permitted below the second floors except for the business owner or operator of a motel, hotel or similar use.
(2) Incidental and essential to retail business. There shall be no manufacture, processing, or treatment of products other than those, which are clearly incidental and essential to the retail business conducted on the same premises.
(3) Limited to five persons. Not more than five persons (exclusive of manager, clerks and drivers) shall be engaged in the manufacture, processing, or treatment of products.
(4) Nuisances not permitted. These uses, operations or products shall not cause objectionable odor, dust, smoke, noise, vibration or other similar nuisances.
(5) Yard areas. No building shall be erected or enlarged unless the following yards are provided and maintained in connection with the buildings.
(6) Front yard. There shall be provided on every lot a front yard not less than 50 feet in depth, except that when existing buildings located in this district have already established a building line at a depth less than required above, then all new buildings may conform to the same building line.
(7) Side yard. A side yard of a minimum of ten feet shall be provided.
(8) Rear yard. There shall be a rear yard of not less than 20 feet, provided, that an accessory building may be located thereon, except for the five feet adjacent and parallel to the rear lot line or alley line, for the storage of motor vehicles and the unloading and loading of vehicles under roof.
(9) Maximum floor area ratio and coverage. The floor area ratio shall not exceed 1.5 and not more than 75% of a zoning lot shall be covered by a building or buildings.
(10) Additional requirements. The applicant should refer to the following sections for additional requirements:
(11) Buffer area. When abutting a residential district or lot, a six foot tall sight-proof fence or ten foot tall landscaped screen shall be provided. Such landscaped screen shall consist of shrubbery and trees at least five feet in height when planted and shall be maintained at not less than ten feet in height when fully grown. Other forms of screening shall be as approved by the Zoning Administrator.
(C) Permitted uses.
(1) Any use permitted in the B-2 Business District.
(2) Agricultural implement sales and services, on a lot within a building.
(3) Animal hospital.
(4) Beverages, nonalcoholic, bottling and distributing.
(5) Camping trailer sales.
(6) Construction trailers, provided they are only used for storage and not occupied.
(7) Contractors' offices and shops, where no fabrication is done on the premises and where storage of materials and equipment is permitted on the outside of the building, provided they are kept in a neat and orderly condition, and not permitted to create a health hazard and an eye-sore to the general area. This is also includes excavation contracting businesses.
(8) Greenhouse, for retail trade on the premises.
(9) Hang-glider sales and service shops.
(10) Live bait stores.
(11) Miniature golf courses.
(12) Mobile home sales not including occupancy of trailers.
(13) Monument sales, but not including the cutting or grinding of stones, on an open lot or within a building.
(14) Motorcycle sales and repair.
(15) Plumbing, heating and roofing supply shops.
(16) Recycling of papers, cans, plastic or glass bottles, containers and jars, household alkaline batteries and other energy-recyclable materials. Any storage on the outside must be kept in a neat and orderly condition, and not permitted to create a health hazard and an eyesore to the area. Any hazardous materials must be confined so that a danger is not created.
(17) Riding academies and public stables.
(18) Trailer sales business on an open lot or within a building, not including occupancy of trailers.
(19) Ultra-light sales and service shops.
(20) Used passenger automobile sales on an open lot or within a building.
(1) Eating and drinking establishments.
(2) Churches, rectories and parish houses (see § 93.077).
(3) Clubs or lodges (nonprofit), fraternal or religious institutions.
(4) Drive-in theaters.
(5) Dwellings, frame construction only, including mobile homes in compliance with § 93.101.
(6) Fairgrounds, circuses, coliseums, race tracks and other similar exposition and recreational uses.
(8) Hotels and motels, including restaurants and meeting rooms.
(9) Meeting halls.
(11) Utilities. Electrical substations, gas regulator stations, other public utility distribution facilities.
(12) Adult business.
(13) Winery with a tasting room.
(14) Railroad freight cars and box trailer, to be used for storage only; install as an accessory use to the primary use and located not in the front yard area.
(15) Licensed veterans establishment.
(16) Licensed fraternal establishment.
(17) Licensed truck stop establishment.
(18) Convenience store.
(19) Gasoline service station, with or without a convenience store. (See § 93.082).
(20) Drive-up window, restaurant or convenience store.
(21) Indoor shooting ranges, conceal and carry lessons, or firearms safety courses. Any shooting ranges must be at least 1,000 feet from any residence.
(1) Off-street parking and loading.
(2) Storage of merchandise or inventory usually carried in stock, provided that the storage shall be located on the lot with the retail, service, or commercial use. There can be storage on the outside of the building, provided that it is kept in a neat and orderly condition, and not permitted to create a health hazard and an eyesore to the general area.
(3) Accessory structures. Accessory structures may include a kitchenette or bathroom, but shall not include a full kitchen, bedroom, or living space.
(4) Video games and amusements, electronic devices, and other similar devices. This accessory use can only be used in conjunction with licensed eating and drinking establishments, licensed veterans establishments, licensed truck stop establishments, or licensed fraternal establishments and must adhere to all governing statutes including but not limited to the Illinois Video Game Act (230 ILCS 40).
(F) Prohibited uses.
(1) The following use shall not be permitted: Boarding and rooming houses; dormitories, fraternity and sorority houses; apartment hotels; mobile homes or mobile home parks; and any uses for living quarters not specifically provided for in this section.
(2) Neither junkyards, the dismantling of vehicles, or the storage of dismantled vehicles, petroleum bulk plants, or outside storage of inflammable liquids or explosives, shall be permitted in this district.
(3) Vehicles, such as automobiles, buses, and trucks that do not bear a current set of license plates; or are not in running condition; or are in such a condition that they are inoperable on public streets shall not be permitted unless such vehicles are incidental to and essential for a permitted primary use taking place on the property.
(4) Restaurants or bars that feature nude dancing in any form.
(5) Junk and debris, and outdoor storage of goods and materials where such storage is not permitted.
(Ord. 2014-18, passed 4-16-2014; Ord. 2017-02, passed 6-1-2017; Ord. 2020-02, passed 1-16-2020; Ord. 2024-01, passed 3-5-2024)