For the purpose of this title, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
ACCESSORY BUILDING OR USE. Any subordinate building or use which is customary incident to the principal building or use and which is located on the same lot as such principal building or use.
ADULT-USE CANNABIS BUSINESS ESTABLISHMENT. A cultivation center, craft grower, processing organization, dispensing organization, or transporting organization.
ADULT-USE CANNABIS CRAFT GROWER. A facility operated by an organization or business that is licensed by the Department of Agriculture to cultivate, dry, cure, and package cannabis and perform other necessary activities to make cannabis available for sale at a dispensing organization or use at a processing organization.
ADULT-USE CANNABIS CULTIVATION CENTER. A facility operated by an organization or business that is licensed by the Department of Agriculture to cultivate, process, transport, and perform other necessary activities to provide cannabis and cannabis-infused products to cannabis business establishments.
ADULT-USE CANNABIS DISPENSING ORGANIZATION. A facility operated by an organization or business that is licensed by the Department of Financial and Professional Regulation to acquire cannabis from a cultivation center, craft grower, processing organization, or another dispensary for the purpose of selling or dispensing cannabis, cannabis-infused products, cannabis seeds, paraphernalia, or related supplies under the Cannabis Regulation and Tax Act (410 ILCS 705/1-1 et seq.) to purchasers or to qualified registered medical cannabis patients and caregivers. A dispensing organization shall include a registered medical cannabis organization as defined in the Compassionate Use of Medical Cannabis Pilot Program Act (410 ILCS 130/1 et seq.) that has obtained an Early Approval Adult Use Dispensing Organization License.
ADULT-USE CANNABIS INFUSER ORGANIZATION OR INFUSER. A facility operated by an organization or business that is licensed by the State Department of Agriculture to directly incorporate cannabis or cannabis concentrate into a product formulation to produce a cannabis-infused product, per the Cannabis Regulation and Tax Act, (P.A. 101-0027), as it may be amended from time to time, and regulations promulgated there under.
ADULT-USE CANNABIS PROCESSING ORGANIZATION OR PROCESSOR. A facility operated by an organization or business that is licensed by the Department of Agriculture to either extract constituent chemicals or compounds to produce cannabis concentrate or incorporate cannabis or cannabis concentrate into a product formulation to produce a cannabis product. A processing organization shall include an infuser organization or infuser, as such terms are defined in the Cannabis Regulation and Tax Act (410 ILCS 705/1-1 et. seq.).
ADULT-USE CANNABIS TRANSPORTING ORGANIZATION. An organization or business that is licensed by the Department of Agriculture to transport cannabis on behalf of a cannabis business establishment or a community college licensed under the Community College Cannabis Vocational Training Pilot Program.
AGRICULTURE. The tilling of the soil, the raising of crops, forestry, horticulture and gardening, including the keeping or raising of domestic animals and fowl.
ALLEY. A public right-of-way usually 16 feet to 20 feet in width which normally affords a secondary means of access to abutting property.
BUILDING, NONCONFORMING. A building so constructed or so located on a lot that it does not comply with the building requirements or with the minimum lot requirements of the district within which it is located.
BUILDING, PRINCIPAL. A nonaccessory building in which the primary use of the lot on which it is located is conducted.
COMMERCE. An enterprise that involves the offering of a product, service or entertainment for compensation.
DWELLING. A building or portion thereof, designed or used predominately for residential occupancy, including one-family dwellings, two-family dwellings and multiple-family dwellings, but not including hotels, motels, boarding or rooming houses, tourist homes or mobile homes.
DWELLING, ATTACHED. One which is joined to another dwelling or building at one or more sides by a party wall or walls.
DWELLING, DETACHED. One which is entirely surrounded by open space on the same lot.
DWELLING, MULTIPLE-FAMILY (APARTMENT BUILDING). A building or portion thereof containing three or more dwelling units but not including a motel, hotel or rooming house.
DWELLING, ONE-FAMILY. A residential structure containing one dwelling unit only.
DWELLING, TWO-FAMILY (DUPLEX). A residential structure containing two dwelling units only.
DWELLING UNIT. One or more rooms containing complete kitchen facilities, permanently installed, which are arranged, designed, used or intended for exclusively as living quarters for one family and for not more than aggregate of two roomers or boarders.
EFFICIENCY UNIT. A dwelling unit with one primary room which doubles as a living room, dining room and bedroom.
ESTABLISHMENT, COMMERCIAL. A place of business carrying on operations which involve the offering of a product, service or entertainment for compensation.
FAMILY. One or more persons related by blood, marriage or adoption, or a group of not more than five persons not so related, maintaining a common household in a dwelling unit.
FLOOR AREA.
(1) The sum of the gross horizontal area of the several floors of a building or buildings, measured from the exterior faces of exterior walls or from the centerline of party walls separating two buildings.
(2) In particular,
FLOOR AREA shall include:
(a) Basement space of at least one-half of the basement story is above established curb level, or where the curb level has not been established, above the average level of the finished grade;
(b) Elevator shafts and stairwells at each floor;
(c) Floor space used for mechanical equipment where the structural headroom exceeds seven and one-half feet, except equipment open or enclosed, located on the roof, such as, bulk needs, water tanks and cooling towers;
(d) Attic floor space where the structural headroom exceeds seven and one-half feet;
(e) Interior balconies and mezzanines;
(f) Enclosed porches, but not terraces and breezeways; and
(d) Accessory uses, other than floor space devoted exclusively to accessory off-street parking or loading.
HOME OCCUPATION. An occupation carried on by the occupant of a dwelling in a residential district as a secondary use including, but not limited to, such occupations as dressmaking and alterations and artist’s studio.
INDUSTRY. An enterprise which involves the production, processing or storage of materials, goods or products.
LOADING SPACE. An off-street space on the same lot with a building or contiguous to a group of buildings, for the temporary parking of commercial vehicles while loading or unloading merchandise or materials, and which abuts on street or other appropriate means of access.
LOT. A piece, parcel or plot of land intended for building development or as a unit for transfer of ownership.
LOT AREA. The area of a horizontal plane bounded by the front, side and rear lot lines, measured within the lot boundaries.
LOT, CORNER. A lot situated at the intersection of two streets, the interior angle of such intersection not exceeding 135 degrees.
LOT DEPTH. The mean horizontal distance between the front lot line and the rear lot line of a lot measured within the lot boundaries.
LOT, INTERIOR. A lot other than a corner lot.
LOT LINE. A property boundary line of any lot held in single or separate ownership, except that, where any portion of the lot extends into the abutting street or alley, the lot line shall be deemed to be the street or alley right-of-way line.
LOT WIDTH. The horizontal distance between the side lot lines of a lot measured at the building setback line.
MATERIAL, DURABLE (AS PERTAINING TO GROUND SURFACING). A hard surfaced material such as concrete or asphalt but not including gravel or crushed rock.
MOBILE HOME. A movable or portable dwelling built on a chassis, connected to utilities and designed for year-round living. A MOBILE HOME is also designed to enable placement upon a permanent foundation.
MOTEL (TOURIST COURT). A building or group of detached, semidetached or attached buildings on a lot containing guest rooms or dwellings each of which has a separate outside entrance leading directly from the outside of the building, with garage or parking space conveniently located to each unit and which is designed, used or intended to be used primarily for the accommodation of automobile transients. MOTELS do not include hotels, boarding houses or mobile home courts.
NOXIOUS MATTER OR MATERIAL. A material which is capable of causing injury to living organisms by chemical reaction, or is capable of causing detrimental effects on the physical or economic well-being of individuals.
PARKING SPACE, AUTOMOBILE. A suitable surfaced and permanently maintained area off the public street right-of-way, either within or outside of a building, of sufficient size to store one standard automobile, but in no event less than 170 square feet, exclusive of passageways, driveways or other means of circulation or access.
PARTICULATE MATTER. Dust, smoke or any other form of airborne pollution in the form of minute separate particles.
ROOMING HOUSE. A building designed for or used as a single-family or two-family dwelling, all or a portion of which contains rooming units which accommodate three or more persons who are not members of the keeper’s family. Rooms or meals, or both, are provided for compensation on a weekly or monthly basis.
SETBACK. The minimum horizontal distance between a building and the street or lot line, disregarding steps, unroofed porches and overhangs.
SIGN. Any device for visual communication that is used for the purpose of bringing the subject thereof to the attention of the public, but not including any flag, badge or insignia of any government or governmental agency, or of any civic, charitable, religious, patriotic, fraternal or similar organization. Such device may be either stationary or movable.
SIGN, FLASHING. Any illuminated sign on which the artificial light is not maintained stationary and/or 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, ROOF. A sign erected upon the roof of any building.
STORY. The part of a building between the surface of a floor and the ceiling immediately above.
STREET, ARTERIAL. A street which provides for the movement of relatively heavy traffic to, from or within the city. It has a secondary function of providing access to abutting land. An ARTERIAL STREET SYSTEM is designated on the city’s comprehensive plan.
STREET, COLLECTOR. A street which collects and distributes internal traffic within an urban area such as a residential neighborhood, between arterial and local streets. It provides access to abutting property.
STREET, LOCAL. A street of little or no continuity, designed to provide access to abutting property and ideally leading into collector streets.
TOXIC MATTER OR MATERIAL. Those materials which are capable of causing injury to living organisms by chemical means when present in relatively small amounts.
TRAVEL TRAILER. A vehicle portable structure built on a chassis designed to be used as a temporary dwelling for travel, recreation and vacation uses.
USE. The purpose or activity for which the land or building thereon is designed, arranged or intended, or for which it is occupied or maintained.
USE, ACCESSORY. A use subordinate to the principal use or building on the same lot and customarily incidental thereto as well as detached therefrom.
USE, INCOMPATIBLE. A use which is incapable of direct association with certain other uses because it is contrary, incongruent or discordant.
USE, NONCONFORMING. Any lawfully established use of a building or premises which on the effective date of this title does not comply with the use regulations of the zoning district in which such building or premises is located.
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.
USE, SPECIAL. A use, either public or private, which, because of the unique characteristics, cannot be properly classified as a permitted use in a particular district. After due consideration in each case, of the impact of such use upon neighboring land, and of the public need for the particular use at the particular location, such SPECIAL USE may or may not be granted.
YARD. An open space on a lot which is unobstructed from the lowest level to the sky, except as hereinafter permitted. A YARD extends along a lot line and at right angles to such lot lines to a depth or width specified in the yard regulations for the district in which such lot is located.
YARD, FRONT. A yard extending along the full width of the front lot line between side lot lines.
YARD, REAR. The portion of the yard on the same lot with the building between the rear line of the building and the rear line of the lot for the full width of the lot.
YARD, SIDE. A yard extending along a side lot line between the front and rear yards.
ZONING DISTRICT. An area or areas for which the regulations and requirements governing use, lot and bulk of buildings and premises are uniform.
ZONING MAP. The map setting forth the boundaries of the zoning districts of the municipality which map shall be incorporated by reference as part of this title.
(1974 Code, § 9-2-2) (Ord. 501, passed 10-24-1967; Ord. 2019-12-10, passed 12-20-2019; Ord. 2021-05-03, passed 7-13-2021)