(A) General. This zone district is created to encourage the development, location, and growth of business, business related, and other uses that are not generally compatible with other direct retail sales. This district provides for wholesale and business uses, which often require large lots and storage areas that create land uses patterns not conducive to pedestrian shopping.
(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 floor, except in hotels and motels or for the owner or operator of the business.
(2) Uses, operations or products to not be objectionable. Permitted uses, operations, or products shall not be objectionable due to odor, dust, smoke, noise vibrations, or other similar causes.
(3) Screening or plantings. Storage outside a building must provide screening or plantings as reviewed by the Zoning Administrator and approved by the Land Use Committee.
(4) Maximum floor area ratio and coverage. The floor area ratio shall not exceed 2.5.
(5) Yard areas. All yard regulations shall be the same as required in the “B-1” Business District, § 93.029 (B).
(6) Additional requirements. The applicant shall refer to the following sections for additional requirements:
(C) Permitted uses.
(1) Any use permitted in the B-3 District.
(2) Automobile or agricultural implement sales, repair, and service stations.
(3) Building materials sales.
(4) Business machines, repair service, storage and wholesale.
(5) Cement products, wholesale (pipe, blocks, and the like).
(6) Display, designers', and builders' shops.
(7) Exterminating shops.
(8) Feed and seed stores.
(9) Food products, brokers, distributors.
(10) Greenhouses, wholesale growers.
(11) Heating and air conditioning (fabricating and assembly).
(12) Lumberyards.
(13) Machine and equipment rental and repair.
(14) Membership clubs.
(15) “Par 3" golf courses, miniature golf courses, and commercially operated driving ranges.
(16) Parking lots and garages.
(17) Physical culture and health services.
(18) Printing and publishing of newspapers, periodicals, books, and including letter process work.
(19) Radio and television broadcasting stations.
(20) Schools: Music, dance, business, commercial or trade.
(21) Travel trailer sales.
(22) Souvenir shops and stands provided that all goods and services are sold or provided within completely enclosed buildings.
(23) Storage of automobiles in running condition.
(24) Termite control contractor shops.
(25) Warehouses, including self storage facilities.
(26) Weighers, commercial.
(27) Welding, equipment and supplies, storage.
(1) Any uses which may be allowed as a special uses in the B-1 Limited Business District.
(2) Bus terminal or other public transportation terminal facilities.
(3) Dwellings.
(4) Planned Unit Developments limited to the permitted uses in this district.
(5) Outdoor theaters (drive-in).
(6) Outdoor amusement establishments, fairgrounds, carnivals, circuses, race tracks, and other similar amusement centers, including places of assembly devoted thereto, such as stadiums and arenas.
(7) Eating and drinking establishments.
(8) Utilities, electrical substations, other public utility distribution facilities.
(E) Accessory uses. (See § 93.051(B)) Accessory uses that are clearly associated with and supplementary to the principal uses of the lot or tract of land.
(1) Off-street parking and loading.
(2) Storage of merchandise or inventory usually carried in stock, provided that such 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.
(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 uses 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.
(Ord. 2014-18, passed 4-16-2014; Am. Ord. 2017- 02, passed 6-1-20017; Am. Ord. 2020-02, passed 1-16-2020)