The following words and terms, when used in this Title, shall have the meanings set forth, except where otherwise specifically indicated.
ABUTTING: To have a common property line or district line.
ACCESSORY BUILDING OR USE: An "accessory building or use" is one which:
A. Is subordinate to and serves a principal building or principal use.
B. Is subordinate in area, extent, or purpose to the principal building or principal use served.
C. Contributes to the comfort, convenience, or necessity of occupants of the principal building or principal use served.
D. Is located on the same zoning lot as the principal building or principal use served with the single exception of such accessory off- street parking facilities as are permitted to locate elsewhere than on the same zoning lot with the building or use served.
E. Occupies not more than ten percent (10%) of the area on which the main building is situated, and which is not higher than the principal building, and which conforms to all setback requirements, and in residentially zoned districts shall not exceed fifteen feet (15') in height.
AGRICULTURAL BUILDING OR STRUCTURE: For the purposes of this Title, shall imply any building or structure existing or erected on land used principally for agricultural purposes, with the exception of dwelling units.
AGRICULTURE: The use of land for agricultural purposes, including farming, dairying, pasturage, apiculture, horticulture, floriculture, viticulture, and animal and poultry husbandry, and the necessary accessory uses for packing, treating, or storing the produce; provided, however, that the operation of any such accessory uses shall be secondary to that of the normal agricultural activities.
ALLEY: A public or private way, at the rear or side of property, permanently reserved as a means of secondary vehicular access to abutting property. Frontage on said alley shall not be construed as satisfying the requirements of this title related to frontage on a dedicated street.
ALTERATION: A change in size, shape, character, occupancy or use of a building or structure.
ANCHORED MASONRY: Masonry veneer secured to and supported laterally by the backing through anchors and supported vertically by the foundation or other structural elements.
APARTMENT: One or more rooms in an apartment building or combination apartment and commercial building, arranged, intended or designed or occupied as a dwelling unit of a single family, an individual or a group of individuals.
APARTMENT BUILDING: A multiple-family dwelling or originally designed and constructed to accommodate three (3) or more apartments, designed with more than one dwelling unit connecting to a common corridor or entrance way, in contrast to single- or two-family dwellings converted for multiple- family use.
AUTO REPAIR, MAJOR: Engine rebuilding or major reconditioning of worn or damaged motor vehicles, or trailers; collision service, including body, frame or fender straightening or repair, and overall painting of vehicles.
AUTO REPAIR, MINOR: Incidental repairs, replacement of parts, and motor service to automobiles but excluding any operation specified under the definition of Auto Repair, Major.
AUTOMOBILE LAUNDRY: A building, or portion thereof, containing facilities for washing more than two (2) automobiles, using production line methods with a chain conveyor, blower, steam cleaning device, or other mechanical devices.
AUTOMOBILE SALVAGE YARD: Any place where two (2) or more motor vehicles not in running condition, or parts thereof, are stored in the open and are not being restored to operation, or any land, building or structure used for wrecking or storing of such motor vehicles or farm machinery, or parts thereof, stored in the open and not being restored to operating condition; and including the commercial salvaging of any other goods, articles or merchandise.
AUTOMOBILE SERVICE STATION: Any building or premises used for the dispensing, sale or offering for sale at retail to the public, automobile fuels stored only in underground tanks and located wholly within the lot lines; lubricating oil or grease for the operation of automobiles; and the sale and installation of tires, batteries, other minor accessories, and minor auto repair, but not including a bulk plant, conduct or major auto repair, automobile wrecking, automobile sales, or automobile laundries; provided, however, that the washing of individual automobiles where no chain conveyor is employed may be included.
BASEMENT: A story having part but not more than one-half (1/2) of its height below grade. A basement is counted as a story for the purpose of height regulation if subdivided and used for dwelling purposes other than by janitor employed on the premises.
BILLBOARD: See definition of Sign, Advertising.
BLOCK: That property abutting on one side of a street between two (2) nearest intersecting streets, railroad rights of way, or natural barriers; provided, however, that where a street curves so that any two (2) chords thereof form an angle of one hundred twenty degrees (120o) or less, measured on the lot side, such curve shall be constructed as an intersecting street.
BOARDING HOUSE OR LODGING HOUSE: A building or premises where meals are regularly served by prearrangement for definite periods for compensation for three (3) or more persons, not a family but not exceeding twelve (12) persons, not open to transient guests, in contradistinction to hotels or restaurants open to transients.
BOUNDARY LINE: A line on the zoning district map designating the edge of a use district. Such boundary line may be a boundary line for two (2) use districts depending on the particular use district located on each side of said line.
BRICK: A solid masonry unit of clay or shale formed into a rectangular prism while plastic and burned or fired in a kiln, laid up in small, individual units with concrete mortar joints and with a veneer depth of at least three inches (3").
BUILDABLE AREA: The space remaining on a zoning lot after the minimum open space requirements of this title have been complied with.
BUILDING: A structure having a roof, supported by columns or walls, for the shelter, support, or enclosure of persons, animals, or chattels; and when separated by division walls from the ground up and without openings, each portion of such building shall be deemed as a separate building.
BUILDING LINE: A line between which and any street line of a district, lot, tract, or parcel of land, no buildings or parts of buildings may be erected, altered, or maintained.
BUILDING LINE SETBACK: The distance between the building line and the street right of way line.
BUILDING, NONCONFORMING: See definition of Nonconforming Building.
BUILDING, PRINCIPAL: A nonaccessory building in which a principal use on the zoning lot on which it is located is conducted.
BUILDING, UNIT GROUP: Two (2) or more buildings (other than dwellings) grouped upon a lot and held under one ownership, such as universities, hospitals, institutions, churches and temples, and industrial plants and shopping centers.
BULK: The term used to indicate the size and setbacks of buildings or structures and location of same with respect to one another and includes the following:
A. Size and height of buildings.
B. Location of exterior walls at all levels in relation to lot lines, streets, or to other buildings.
C. Gross floor area of buildings in relation to lot area (floor area ratio).
D. All open spaces allocated to buildings.
E. Amount of lot area per dwelling unit.
BULK STORAGE PLANT: Any place where flammable liquids of ten thousand (10,000) gallons or more are received by tanker, barge, pipeline, tank car, tank vessel or truck and are stored or blended in bulk for the purpose of distributing such liquids by tank truck, pipeline, tank car, tank vessel or container.
BUSINESS; COMMERCE: When used in this title means the engaging in the purchase, sale, barter, or exchange of goods, wares, or merchandise, or the maintenance or operation of offices or recreational or amusement enterprises.
CARGO CONTAINER: An industrial, standardized reusable vessel that was:
A. Originally, specifically or formerly designed for or used in the packing, shipping, movement or transportation of freight, articles, goods or commodities, and/or
B. Designed for or capable of being mounted or moved on a railcar, and/or
C. Designed for or capable of being mounted on a chassis or bogie for movement by truck trailer or loaded on a ship.
CARPORT: A roofed automobile shelter with one or more open sides.
CELLAR: A story having more than one-half (1/2) of its height below the curb level or below the highest level of the adjoining ground. A cellar shall not be counted as a story for the purpose of height measurement.
COMMON OPEN SPACE: Land unoccupied by structures, buildings, streets, rights of way and automobile parking lots and designed and intended for the use or enjoyment of residents of a planned development. Common open space may contain structures for recreational use. No area within thirty feet (30') of any building or structure except a structure used for recreational use shall be includable as common open space.
CORNER LOT: See "Lot, Corner".
COURT: An open unoccupied space other than a yard on the same lot with a building, which is totally or partially enclosed by a building or buildings and is completely open to the sky.
CURB LEVEL: The level of the established curb in front of the building measured at the center of such front. Where a building faces on more than one street, the "curb level" shall be the average of the levels of the curbs at the center front of each street. Where no curb elevation has been established, the level of the center line of the street shall be considered the "curb level".
DENSITY: The numerical value obtained by dividing the total dwelling units in a development by the gross area of the tract of land upon which the dwelling units are located.
DRIVE-IN ESTABLISHMENT: An establishment which is designed to provide, either wholly or in part, service to customers while in their automobiles parked upon the premises.
DWELLING: A building or portion thereof, but not including a house trailer or mobile home, designed or used exclusively for residential occupancy, including one-family dwelling units, two-family dwelling units, and multiple-family dwelling units, but not including hotels, boarding or lodging houses.
DWELLING, ATTACHED (Group, Row or Town Houses): A dwelling containing two (2) or more dwelling units and joined to other dwellings by party wall or walls, originally constructed for said purposes.
DWELLING, CONVERTED: Any building which was originally designed and constructed as one-, two- or three-family dwelling, but which has been changed or altered by the construction of additional dwelling units to provide for more families than the original building.
DWELLING, DETACHED: A dwelling which is surrounded on all sides by open space on the same lot.
DWELLING, GROUND FLOOR AREA: The first floor area in square feet measured from the outside of the exterior walls but excluding cellars, basements, open porches, breezeways, garages and other infrequently used spaces.
DWELLING, MULTIPLE-FAMILY: A dwelling containing three (3) or more dwelling units, originally constructed for said purpose, and not including converted dwellings.
DWELLING, SEMI-ATTACHED: A dwelling which is joined to another dwelling by a garage, carport, recreation structure, or other nonresidential facility.
DWELLING, SINGLE-FAMILY: A dwelling containing accommodations for and occupied by one family only.
DWELLING, TWO-FAMILY: A building designed exclusively for occupancy by two (2) families living independently of each other.
DWELLING UNIT: One or more rooms in a dwelling or apartment hotel designed for occupancy by one family for living purposes and having its own permanently installed cooking and sanitary facilities.
EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION: A public, parochial, charitable, or nonprofit junior college, college, or university, other than trade or business schools, including instructional and recreational uses, with or without living quarters, dining rooms, restaurants, heating plants, and other incidental facilities for students, teachers, and employees.
EFFICIENCY UNIT: A dwelling unit consisting of one principal room, exclusive of bathroom, kitchen, hallway, closets, or dining alcove, directly off the principal room.
FAMILY: An individual, or two (2) or more persons related by blood, marriage, or adoption, or a group of not more than three (3) persons (excluding servants), not related by blood, marriage, or adoption, living together as a single housekeeping unit in a dwelling unit, but not including sororities, fraternities, or other similar organizations.
FENCE: Any construction of wood, metal, wire mesh, masonry, or other material, erected for the purpose of assuring privacy or protection.
FLOOR AREA (For determining floor area ratio): The sum of the gross horizontal areas of the several floors of the building measured from the exterior faces of the exterior walls or from the center line of walls separating two (2) buildings. The "floor area of a building" shall include the basement floor area when more than one-half (1/2) of the basement height is above the established curb level; off-street parking space; elevator shafts, and stairwells at each floor; floor space used for mechanical equipment, (except equipment, open or enclosed, located on the roof), penthouses, attic space having headroom of seven feet ten inches (7'10") or more; interior balconies and mezzanines; enclosed porches; and floor area devoted to accessory uses.
The "floor area" of structures devoted to bulk storage of materials including, but not limited to, grain elevators and petroleum storage tanks shall be determined on the basis of the height of such structures in feet; ten feet (10') in height shall be deemed to be equal to one floor (if a structure measures more than five feet (5') over such floor equivalent, it shall be construed to have an additional floor).
FLOOR AREA RATIO: The numerical value obtained by dividing the floor area within a building or buildings on a lot by the area of such lot. The floor area ratio as designated for each district, when multiplied by the lot area in square feet, shall determine the maximum permissible floor area for the building or buildings on the lot.
FRONTAGE: All the property fronting on one side of a street between the two (2) nearest intersecting streets, measured along the line of the street, or if dead-ended, then all of the property abutting on one side between an intersecting street and the dead end of the street.
GARAGE, BUS or TRUCK: A building which is used or intended to be used for the storage of motor trucks, truck trailers, tractors, and commercial vehicles exceeding one and one-half (11/2) tons capacity.
GARAGE, PRIVATE: A detached accessory building or portion of the main building, designed, arranged, used, or intended to be used for the storage of passenger automobiles of the occupants of the premises.
GARAGE, PUBLIC: A building other than a private garage, used for the care, incidental servicing, and sale of automobile supplies, or where motor vehicles are parked or stored for remuneration, hire, or sale within the structure, but not including trucks, tractors, and truck-trailers, and commercial vehicles exceeding one and one-half (11/2) tons capacity.
GRADE, STREET: Same as "Curb Level".
GROUP HOME: A single dwelling unit occupied on a relatively permanent basis in a family-like environment by unrelated persons with disabilities.
HEIGHT OF BUILDING: The vertical distance from the average contact ground level at the front wall of the building to the highest point of the coping of a flat roof or to the deck line of a mansard roof, or to the mean height level between eaves and ridge for gable, hip or gambrel roofs.
HOME OCCUPATION: An occupation carried on in a dwelling by the resident thereof, not involving the conduct of a retail business or manufacturing business, the employment of any additional persons in the performance of such services, excepting members of the immediate family residing on the premises and one receptionist or office assistant; not using any mechanical equipment, other than is usual for purely domestic or hobby purposes; nor exterior storage of equipment or materials used in connection with the home occupation. Home occupations, further, shall not utilize more than twenty five percent (25%) of the total floor area of any one story.
HOTEL: A building in which lodging or board and lodging are provided and offered to the public for compensation and in which ingress and egress to and from all rooms is made through an inside lobby or office supervised by a person in charge at all hours. As such it is open to the public in contradistinction to a boarding house, a lodging house, or an apartment hotel, which are separately defined.
HOTEL, APARTMENT: A hotel in which at least ninety percent (90%) of the hotel accommodations are occupied by permanent guests.
HOSPITAL or SANITARIUM: An institution devoted primarily to the maintenance and operation of facilities for the diagnosis, treatment or care for not less than twenty four (24) hours in any week, of three (3) or more nonrelated individuals suffering from illness, disease, injury, deformity, and other abnormal physical conditions. The term "hospital" as used in this Title does not apply to institutions operating primarily for treatment of insane persons, drug addicts, liquor addicts, or other types of cases necessitating restraint of patients, and the term "hospital" shall not include convalescent, nursing, shelter, or boarding houses.
JUNK YARD: Any parcel of land where waste, scrap metal, paper, rags or similar materials are bought, sold, exchanged, stored, baled, packed, disassembled, or handled, including auto and building wrecking yards, but excluding similar uses taking place entirely within a completely enclosed building.
JUNKER: An automobile, truck, or other motor vehicle which has been damaged to such an extent that it cannot be operated under its own power and will require major repairs before being made usable, or such a vehicle which does not comply with State or Village laws or ordinances.
KENNEL, COMMERCIAL: Any lot or premises or portion thereof on which more than four (4) dogs or cats, or other household domestic animals, over four (4) months of age, are kept or on which more than two (2) such animals are boarded for compensation or kept for sale.
LIMITED ACCESS HIGHWAY: A trafficway, including expressways and toll roads for through traffic, in respect to which owners or occupants of abutting property or lands and other persons have no legal right of access to or from the same, except at such points only and in such manner as may be determined by the public authority having jurisdiction over such trafficway.
LOADING AND UNLOADING SPACE, OFF-STREET: An open, hard- surfaced area of land, other than a street or public way, the principal use of which is for the standing, loading, and unloading of motor trucks, tractors, and trailers. Such space is not less than ten feet (10') in width, thirty five feet (35') in length, and fourteen feet (14') in height, exclusive of access aisles and maneuvering space.
LOT: A parcel of land occupied or to be occupied by one building and accessory buildings and uses or a unit group of buildings and including the open spaces required under these regulations. A lot may be land so recorded on official records or it may include parts or a combination of such lots when adjacent to one another, provided such ground is used for only one improvement, or may be a parcel of land described by metes and bounds.
LOT AREA: The area of a horizontal plane bounded by the front, side and rear lot lines.
LOT, CORNER: A lot located at the intersection of two (2) streets or a lot bounded on two (2) sides by a curving street and any two (2) chords of which form an angle of one hundred twenty degrees (120°) or less measured on the lot side.
LOT COVERAGE: The area of a zoning lot occupied by the principal building or buildings and accessory buildings.
LOT DEPTH: The mean horizontal distance between the front and rear lot lines.
LOT, DOUBLE FRONTAGE: A lot other than a corner lot having frontage on two (2) or more streets. An alley shall not be considered a street.
LOT, FRONTAGE: The front of a lot shall be construed to be the portion nearest the street. For the purpose of determining yard requirements on corner lots and through lots, all sides of a lot adjacent to streets shall be considered frontage, and yards shall be provided as indicated under "Yards" in this Chapter.
LOT, INTERIOR: A lot other than a corner or reversed corner lot.
LOT LINE, FRONT: The front property line of a zoning lot.
LOT LINE, INTERIOR: A side lot line common with another lot.
LOT LINE, REAR: The rear lot line is the lot line or lot lines most nearly parallel to and most remote from the front lot line. Lot lines other than front or rear lot lines are side lot lines.
LOT OF RECORD: A lot which is a part of a subdivision, the plat of which has been legally recorded. A lot of record shall also include parts of lots of a subdivision, the plat of which has been legally recorded, which cumulatively have at least the same dimensions and area of a full lot in the same subdivision.
LOT, REVERSED CORNER: A corner lot at right angles or approximately right angles to the general pattern of the area, the street side lot line of which is substantially a continuation of the front lot line of the front lot to the rear. The rear of the corner lot is adjacent to the side of another lot, whether across an alley or not.
LOT WIDTH: The horizontal distance between the side lot lines measured at right angles to the lot depth at the established front building line.
MARQUEE OR CANOPY: A rooflike structure of a permanent nature which projects from the wall of a building and overhangs the public way.
MOTEL: An establishment consisting of a group of attached or detached living or sleeping accommodations with bathroom and closet space, located on a single zoning lot and designed for use by transient automobile tourists. A "motel" furnishes customary hotel services such as maid service and laundering of linen, telephone and secretarial or desk service, and the use and upkeep of furniture. In a "motel" less than fifty percent (50%) of the living and sleeping accommodations are occupied or designed for occupancy by persons other than transient automobile tourists.
MOTOR VEHICLE: Any passenger vehicle, truck, tractor, tractor- trailer, truck-trailer, trailer, or semi-trailer propelled or drawn by mechanical power.
MOTOR VEHICLE REPAIR, MAJOR and MINOR: See "Auto Repair, Major and Minor".
NONCONFORMING BUILDING: A building or structure or portion thereof lawfully existing at the time of adoption of this Title, or amendment thereto, which was designed, erected, or structurally altered for a use that does not conform to the use regulations of the district in which it is located.
NONCONFORMING USE: A use which lawfully occupies a building or land at the time of adoption of this Title, or amendment thereto, and which does not conform with the use regulations of the district in which it is located.
NURSERY, CHILD CARE: An establishment for the part-time care of five (5) or more children of pre-elementary school age in addition to the members of the family residing therein.
NURSING HOME: A home for the ages, chronically ill, care of children, infirm or incurable persons, or a place of rest for those suffering bodily disorders in which three (3) or more persons, not members of the immediate family residing on the premises, are received, kept or provided with food and shelter or care, but not including hospitals, clinics or similar institutions devoted primarily to the diagnosis and treatment of disease or injury, maternity cases or mental illness.
OPEN SALES LOT: Land used or occupied for the purpose of buying or selling merchandise stored or displayed out-of-doors prior to sale. (Such merchandise includes, but is not limited to passenger cars, trucks, motor scooters, motorcycles, boats, and monuments.)
PARKING SPACE, AUTOMOBILE: Space within a public or private parking area of not less than one hundred eighty (180) square feet (9 feet by 20 feet) exclusive of access drives for the storage of one passenger automobile or commercial vehicle under one and one-half (11/2) tons capacity.
PERFORMANCE STANDARD: A criterion established to control noise, odor, smoke, toxic or noxious matter, vibration, fire and explosive hazards, or glare or heat generated by, or inherent in, uses of land or buildings. The more frequently used performance criteria include:
Active to Intense Burning: The rate of combustion described by materials that burns with a high degree of activity and is consumed rapidly. Examples include sawdust, powdered magnesium and pyroxylin.
Closed Cup Flash Point: The lowest temperature at which a combustible liquid, under prescribed conditions will give off a flammable vapor which will burn momentarily.
Decibel: A unit which describes the sound pressure level or intensity of sound. A sound level meter is calibrated in decibels.
Detonable Materials: Materials which decompose by detonation. Such materials include explosives, unstable compounds, and fissionable matter.
Earthborne Vibrations: The periodic displacement, measured in inches, of earth.
Fireproof Containers: Enclosures of steel or concrete but not lead or other low-melting metals or alloys, unless the lead or low-melting metal or alloys are completely encased in steel.
Flash Point: The lowest temperature at which a flammable liquid will momentarily burn under prescribed conditions. The Tag flash point testers shall be authoritative.
Foot Candle: A unit of illumination; technically, the illumination of all points one foot distance from a uniform point source at one candle power.
Free Burning: Implies a rate of combustion described by a material which burns actively, and easily supports combustion.
Frequency: Signifies the number of oscillations per second in a sound wave and is an index of the pitch of the resulting sound.
Impact Noise: A short duration sound such as those from a forging hammer or punch press.
Impulsive Noise: A sound which is no longer than two (2) seconds in duration, followed by no less than a two (2) second rest.
Intense Burning: Implies a rate of combustion described by a material that burns with a high degree of activity and is consumed rapidly.
Microcurie: One millionth of a curie, which is a standard unit of radioactivity.
Moderate Burning: Implies a rate of combustion described by a material which supports combustion and is consumed slowly as it burns.
Noxious Matter: A material which is capable of causing injury to living organisms by chemical reaction or is capable of causing detrimental effects upon the physical or economic well-being of individuals.
Octave Band: A prescribed interval of sound frequencies which classifies sound according to its pitch.
Odor Threshold: The lowest concentration of odorous matter in air that will produce an olfactory response in a human being.
Odorous Matter: Any matter or material that yields an odor which is offensive in any way.
Particulate Matter: Material, other than water, which is suspended in or discharged into the atmosphere in a finely divided form as a liquid or solid.
Preferred Frequency Octave Bands: A standardized series of octave bands prescribed by the U.S.A.S.I. in S1.6-1967, Preferred Frequencies for Acoustical Measurements.
Pre-1960 Octave Bands: A standardized series of octave bands prescribed by the U.S.A.S.I. in Z24.10-1953, Octave Band Filter Set.
Ringelmann Chart: One which is described in the United States Bureau of Mines Information Circular 6888 or its successor, and on which are illustrated graduated shades of grey for use in estimating the light-obscuring capacity of smoke.
SCF (Standard cubic feet): The measure of the volume of a gas, at any other conditions, reduced to fourteen and seventy three one-hundredths (14.73) pounds per square inch absolute and sixty degrees (60o) Fahrenheit.
Slow Burning or Incombustible: Implies materials which do not in themselves constitute an active fuel for the spread of combustion. A material which will not ignite, nor actively support combustion during an exposure for five (5) minutes to a temperature of twelve hundred degrees (1200o) Fahrenheit shall be designated "incombustible".
Smoke: Small gasborne particles, other than water, that form a visible plume in the air.
Smoke and Particulate Matter (Ringelmann Number): The shade of smoke as it appears on the standard Ringelmann chart published by the United States Bureau of Mines.
Sound Level: The "sound level" of an operation or use is the intensity of sound, measured in decibels, produced by such operation or use.
Sound Level Meter: An electronic instrument which includes a microphone, an amplifier and an output meter which measures noise and sound pressure levels in a specified manner. It may be used with the octave band analyzer that permits measuring the sound pressure level in discrete octave bands.
Sound Pressure Level: The intensity of a sound measured in decibels mathematically described as twenty (20) times the logarithm to the base ten (10) of the ratio of the pressure of the sound to a reference pressure of 0.0002 microbar.
Threshold Limit Value: The maximum allowable airborne concentration of toxic material, as established by the American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists.
Toxic Matter: Materials which are capable of causing injury to living organisms by chemical means when present in relatively small amounts.
United States of America Standards Institute (U.S.A.S.I.): A national organization promulgating authoritative standards in many technical fields. Formerly American Standards Association.
Vibration: The periodic displacement or oscillation of the earth.
PILOT PLANT: A building or group of buildings in which a test, sample, or experimental manufacturing or assembling is operated until such time as the process is perfected. This use is not to provide for the continuing operation of a manufacturing or assembling use.
PLANNED UNIT DEVELOPMENT PLAT: A drawing or map made to a measurable scale upon which is presented a description and definition of the way in which the design requirements of the planned unit development are to be met and intended for recording with the County Recorder of Deeds.
PORCH: A roofed-over structure projecting out from the wall or walls of a main structure and commonly open to the weather in part.
PROPERTY LINE: An imaginary line at the edge or boundary of a zoning lot.
PUBLIC UTILITY: Any person duly authorized to furnish under public regulation to the public, electricity, gas, steam, telephone, telegraph, transportation, water or sewerage systems.
PUBLIC WAY: Any sidewalk, street, alley, highway, or other public thoroughfare.
RAILROAD RIGHT OF WAY: A strip of land with tracks and auxiliary facilities for track operation, but not including freight depots, or stations, loading platforms, train sheds, warehouses, car or locomotive shops, or car yards.
REST HOME OR NURSING HOME: A private home for the care of children or the aged or infirm or any other person in need of nursing care. Such home does not contain equipment for surgical care or for treatment of disease or injury, and is not primarily designed for mental patients or alcoholics.
RESTAURANT: A business where the dispensing of edible foodstuff and/or beverage on the premises is the principal business operation; including a cafe, cafeteria, coffee shop, lunch room, tearoom, and dining room, but not including a drive-in restaurant.
RESTAURANT, DRIVE-IN OR CARRYOUT: A restaurant, whose principal business operation is the dispensing of edible foodstuff and/or beverage, ready for consumption on the premises, in automobiles, at outdoor tables, or at stand up counters, or to be carried off the premises. One or the other of the following conditions shall prevail:
A. Total seating area located within the enclosed portion of the premises shall be less than fifty percent (50%) of the total floor area.
B. Total automobile parking spaces on the premises shall exceed the total indoor seats provided for customers.
RETAIL, RETAIL STORE: Sale to the ultimate consumer for direct consumption and not for resale.
SCHOOL: A public or private institution which offers instruction in any of the branches of learning and study comparable to that taught in the public schools under the Illinois school laws, including prekindergarten, kindergarten, elementary school, and junior and senior high school, but excluding trade, business, or commercial schools.
SELF-STORAGE WAREHOUSE ESTABLISHMENTS: A building or group of buildings in a controlled access and fenced compound that contains varying sizes of individual, compartmentalized, and controlled access stalls or lockers for the storage of customers' goods or wares.
SETBACK: The minimum horizontal distance between the street wall of a building and the street property line.
SETBACK, ESTABLISHED BUILDING: When fifty percent (50%) or more of the lots fronting on one side of a street with a block are improved the existing building setbacks of such improved lots shall be the "established building setback" for determining the required setbacks for the remainder of the lots along such street frontage, as regulated in this title.
SIGN: A name, identification, description, display, or illustration which is affixed to or painted or represented directly or indirectly upon a building, structure, or piece of land and which directs attention to an object, product, place, activity, person, institution, organization, or business.
SIGN, ADVERTISING: A sign which directs attention to a business, commodity, service, or entertainment conducted, sold, or offered elsewhere than upon the premises where such sign is located or to which it is affixed.
SIGN, FLASHING: Any illuminated sign on which the artificial light is not maintained stationary and/or is constant in intensity and color at all times when such sign is in use. For the purpose of this title, any revolving, illuminated sign shall be considered a "flashing sign".
SIGN, GROSS SURFACE AREA OF: The entire area within a single continuous perimeter enclosing the extreme limits of a sign and in no case passing through or between any adjacent elements of the same. However, such perimeter shall not include any structural or framing elements lying outside the limits of such sign and not forming an integral part of the display. In the case of a sign with two (2) visible surfaces, the gross surface area shall be the sum of both sides of the sign.
SPECIAL USE: A specific use of land or buildings, or both, described and permitted herein, subject to special provisions and which because of its unique characteristics cannot be properly classified as a permitted use.
STONE: A natural stone or a manufactured cement based architectural product made to match the appearance of natural stone and laid up in small individual units with a veneer depth of at least two inches (2").
STORAGE, OUTDOOR: The outdoor accumulation of vehicles, equipment, or products, or materials for permanent or temporary holding.
STORY: That portion of a building included between the surface of any floor and the surface of the floor next above it, or if there be no floor above it, then the space between the floor and the ceiling next above it. Any portion of a story exceeding fourteen feet (14') in height shall be considered as an additional story for each fourteen feet (14') or fraction thereof.
STORY, HALF: That portion of a building under a gable, hip, or mansard roof, the wall plates of which, on at least two (2) opposite exterior walls, are not more than four and one-half feet (41/2') above the finished floor of such story. In the case of one-family dwellings, two-family dwellings, and multiple-family dwellings less than three (3) stories in height, a half story in a sloping roof shall not be counted as a story for the purposes of this title. In the case of multiple-family dwellings three (3) or more stories in height, a half story shall be counted as a story.
STREET: All property dedicated or intended for public highway, freeway, or roadway purposes or subject to public easements.
STREET FRONTAGE: All of the property fronting on one side of a street between two (2) intersecting streets, or in the case of a dead end street, all of the property along one side of a street between an intersecting street and the end of such dead end street.
STREET LINE: The division line between private property and a dedicated street or way, usually uninterrupted from corner to corner in any given block.
STRUCTURAL ALTERATIONS: Any change in the supporting members of a building such as bearing walls or partitions, columns, beams, or girders, excepting such alterations as may be required for the safety of the building.
STRUCTURE: Anything constructed or erected, the use of which requires permanent location on the ground or attached to something having a permanent location on the ground, including, but without limiting, the generality of the foregoing, to advertising signs, billboards, backstops for tennis courts, and pergolas.
TEMPORARY MOBILE SIGN: An advertising device of a not permanent type, used principally for commercial purposes.
TEMPORARY PORTABLE STORAGE UNIT: A box like container without permanently attached wheels which is transported by truck to and from desired locations and is used primarily for storage, commonly known as PODS (portable on demand storage). Cargo containers shall not be considered temporary portable storage units.
TERRACE, OPEN, AND PATIO: A level plane or platform which, for the purpose of this title, is located adjacent to one or more faces of the principal structure and which is constructed not more than four feet (4') in height above the average level of adjoining ground.
THROUGH LOT: A lot having its front and rear lot lines on adjacent and substantially parallel streets, otherwise known as a double frontage lot.
TRAILER: A vehicle without motive power used or adaptable for living, sleeping, business, or storage purposes, having no foundation other than wheels, blocks, skids, jacks, horses, or skirting, and has been or reasonably may be equipped with wheels or other devices for transporting the structure from place to place. The term "trailer" shall include "camp car" and "house car". A permanent foundation shall not change its character unless the entire structure is erected in accordance with the village building code.
TRAILER HOUSE, OR MOBILE HOME: Any "trailer" as defined herein used for residential purposes.
UNIFIED CONTROL: The combination of two (2) or more tracts of land wherein each owner has agreed that his tract of land shall be developed as part of a planned unit development and shall be subject to the control applicable to the planned development.
USE: The purposes for which land or a building thereon is designed, arranged, or intended, or for which it is occupied, maintained, let or leased.
USE, PERMITTED: A use which may be lawfully established in a particular district or districts, provided it conforms with all requirements, regulations, and performance standards (if any) of such district.
USE, PRINCIPAL: The main use of land or buildings as distinguished from a subordinate or accessory use. A "principal use" may be either a "permitted use" or a "special use".
USE, SPECIAL: See definition of Special Use.
USED CAR LOT: A zoning lot on which used or new cars, trailers, or trucks are displayed for sale or trade outside of buildings.
VALUATION: For the purpose of this title, valuation of a building shall be the assessed valuation, or where no assessed valuation exists, its appraised valuation.
WAREHOUSE AND STORAGE FACILITIES: A building used in the storage, wholesale, and distribution of manufactured products, supplies, and equipment, but excluding bulk storage of materials that are flammable or explosive or that create hazardous or commonly recognized offensive conditions.
WHOLESALE: Sale for resale not for direct consumption.
YARD: An open space on the same zoning lot with a principal building or group of buildings which is unoccupied and unobstructed from its lowest level upward, except as otherwise permitted in this title, and which extends along a lot line and at right angles thereto to a depth or width specified in the yard regulations for the district in which the zoning lot is located.
YARD, FRONT: A yard extending across the full width of the zoning lot in accordance with the setback requirements of this title. See definition of Setback.
YARD, REAR: A yard extending across the rear of the lot between the side yards. Double frontage and reverse corner lots will have no rear yard.
YARD, SIDE: A yard extending from the rear line of the front yard to the lot line most nearly parallel to that rear line.
ZONING LOT: A parcel of land of sufficient size to meet the minimum requirements of this title concerning use, coverage, width, area, yards and other open space and having frontage on an improved public street.
ZONING MAP: The map or maps incorporated into this title as a part thereof, designating zoning districts. (Ord., 4-7-1970; amd. Ord. 560, 1-7-1992; Ord. 634, 9-17-1996; Ord. 700, 7-6-1999; Ord. 929, 11-21-2006; Ord. 1031, 8-4-2009)