(1) ACCESSORY BUILDING OR USE.
A subordinate building, not to exceed one thousand two hundred (1,200) square feet, or use which is located on the same lot or adjacent lot with common ownership where the main building or use is situated, and which is reasonably necessary and incidental to the conduct of the primary use of such building or main use. Semi-trailers, box trailers, cargo containers, recreational trailers or vehicles shall not be considered accessory buildings.
(2) ALLEY. A public thoroughfare which affords only a secondary means of access to abutting property.
(3) APARTMENT. A room or suite of rooms intended, designed, or used as a residence by a single family.
(4) APARTMENT HOTEL. A building designed for containing both apartments and individual guest rooms or suites of rooms and apartments, including services ordinarily furnished by hotels, such as drugstore, barbershop, cigar and newsstands when such uses are located entirely within the building with no entrance from the street, and having no sign or display visible from the outside of the building indicating the existence of such use.
(5) APARTMENT HOUSE. See DWELLING, MULTIPLE.
(6) BASEMENT. A story in part or wholly underground. A BASEMENT shall be counted as a story if subdivided and used for dwelling or business purposes other than for the quarters of a watchman or janitor.
(7) BOARDING HOUSE or LODGING HOUSE or ROOMING HOUSE. A building other
than a hotel or motel where for compensation and by arrangement, lodging or lodging and meals are provided for nonfamily member persons.
(8) BUILDINGS. Any structure having a roof supported by columns or walls for the support, enclosure, shelter, or protection of persons, animals, chattels or property of any kind.
(9) BUILDING, HEIGHT OF. The vertical distance from the grade (elevation of the sidewalk or the average level of the finished surface of the ground adjacent to the structure) 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 and gambrel roofs.
(10) CAR WASHES. Any tract on which the principal or separate use is the washing or waxing of motor vehicles for a fee, excluding filling stations or public garages.
(11) CELLAR. That portion of the building between floor and ceiling which is wholly or partly below grade.
(12) CEMETERY. Land used or intended to be used for the burial or interment of the human or animal dead and utilized for cemetery purposes.
(13) CLINIC. An establishment where patients who are not lodged overnight are admitted for examination and treatment.
(14) CLUB. A building or portion thereof or premises owned or operated by a corporation, association, person or persons for social, educational or recreational purpose, but not primarily for profit or primarily to render a service which is customarily carried on as a business.
(15) COMMERCIAL FEED LOT. Any tract on which the principal use is the concentrated or forced feeding of livestock, fowl, or edible animals for the sale of such animals or the sale of products derived from such animals.
(16) DISTRICT. A territory delineated on the zoning map for which the regulations and restrictions of the ordinance governing the use of land and buildings, the height of buildings, the bulk of buildings, the size and location of yards, and the off- street parking facilities are uniform.
(17) DRIVE-IN. An establishment which is designed to provide either wholly or in part, service, entertainment or sales to customers while in their automobiles parked upon the premises.
(18) DWELLING. Any building or portion thereof which is designed for or used for residential purposes, excluding house trailers as hereinafter defined.
(19) DWELLING, SINGLE-FAMILY. A building designed for or occupied exclusively by one family.
(20) DWELLING, TWO-FAMILY or DUPLEX. A building designed for or occupied exclusively by two (2) families.
(21) DWELLING, MULTIPLE. A building designed for or occupied exclusively by three (3) or more families.
(22) FAMILY. One or more persons related by blood, marriage, adoption, occupying a dwelling and living as a single housekeeping unit and doing their own cooking on the premises, as distinguished from a group occupying a boarding house, lodging house, or hotel, as herein defined.
(23) FARM. A tract of land used for the growing and storage of the usual agricultural products such as grain, vegetables, and fruit, as well as the raising thereon of the usual farm poultry and farm animals, such as horses, cattle, sheep, and swine. The term FARM includes the utilization of such land for one or more of the above uses including dairy farms with the necessary operations for treatment or storing the produce; provided, however, that the operations of any accessory uses shall be secondary to that of the normal farming activities.
(a) Any tract on which the principal use is the raising of fur-bearing animals, such as mink, muskrats, rabbits, and the like shall not be considered a
FARM.
(b) A commercial feed lot shall not be considered a
FARM.
(c) Residential structures occupied by persons primarily engaged in farming are included in the term
FARMING. However, there shall not be more than three (3) dwellings on any one farm.
(24) FILLING STATION or AUTOMOTIVE SERVICE STATION. Any building, structure, or land used for the dispensing, sale or offering for sale at retail of any automobile fuels, oils or accessories, including lubrication or washing of automobiles and replacement or installation of minor parts and accessories but not including major repair work such as motor replacement, body and fender repair or spray painting.
(25) FLOOR AREA. The sum of the gross horizontal areas of all floors of a building measured from the exterior faces of the exterior walls or from the center line of walls, separating buildings, but not including garages, unenclosed porches, and cellar or basement space not used for business or commerce.
(26) FRONTAGE. That portion of a lot abutting a street or alley.
(27) GARAGE, PRIVATE.
An accessory building not to exceed one thousand two hundred (1,200) square feet designed for storage of passenger motor vehicles belonging to the occupants of a specified dwelling or apartment, without provision for repairing or servicing such vehicles for profit. This term shall also include carport.
(28) GARAGE, PUBLIC. A building or portion thereof, other than a private garage, designed or used for equipping, servicing, repairing, hiring, selling or storing motor-driven vehicles.
(29) HOME OCCUPATIONS. Any use, customarily conducted entirely within the dwelling and carried on by the inhabitants thereof, which use is clearly incidental and secondary to the use of the dwelling for dwelling purposes, and does not change the character thereof; and in which no person other than a member or members of the immediate family residing on the premises is employed. The general practice of his profession by a physician, psychiatrist, psychologist, chiropodist, chiropractor, dentist, lawyer, or clergy person, among others, shall not be deemed to be a HOME OCCUPATION. A home occupation may display a sign not more than ten (10) square feet in area. Home occupations may not be carried out in an accessory building, but may only be operated within the confines of the main residence.
(30) HOTEL or MOTEL. Any building or portion thereof containing six (6) or more guest rooms or suites in which no provision for cooking is made.
(31) INDUSTRIAL PARK. A tract of land containing not less than the area specified for this purpose in this ordinance, which is designed to accommodate two (2) or more industrial uses in accordance with a plan of development which presents a unified and organized arrangement of building areas, service facilities and related improvements, such as open spaces and planting areas, all of which have a functional relationship to the proposed use and will be in harmony with the use of land immediately adjacent to the tract.
(32) HOSPITAL. A building or portion thereof used for the treatment of sick, injured or infirm persons, and licensed as a hospital, and licensed by the State of Illinois.
(33) INSTITUTION. A building occupied by a nonprofit corporation or a nonprofit establishment for public use.
(34) JUNKYARD. A lot, land or structure, or part thereof, used primarily for the collecting, storage and sale of wastepaper, rags, scrap metal or discarded materials; or for the collecting, dismantling, storage and salvaging of machinery or vehicles not in running
condition and for the sale of parts thereof. A
JUNKYARD includes auto wrecking yards.
(35) KENNEL. Any structure or premises on which five (5) or more dogs or cats over four (4) months of age are boarded or kept for compensation or offered for sale.
(36) LAUNDROMAT. An establishment providing dry cleaning, washing, drying, ironing machines for hire to be used by customers on the premises.
(37) LOADING SPACE. A space within the main building or on the same lot therewith, providing for the standing, loading or unloading of trucks, and having a minimum dimension of twelve (12) by thirty- five (35) feet and a vertical clearance of at least fourteen (14) feet.
(38) LOT. A parcel of land occupied or intended for occupancy by a use permitted in this ordinance, including one main building together with its accessory buildings, the open spaces and parking spaces required by this ordinance, and having its principal frontage upon a street or upon an officially approved place.
(39) LOT, CORNER. A lot having two (2) or more sides abutting upon two (2) or more streets at their intersection, or upon two (2) parts of the same street.
(40) LOT, DOUBLE FRONTAGE. A lot having a frontage on two (2) nonintersecting streets as distinguished from a corner lot.
(41) LOT OF RECORD. A lot which is part of a subdivision, the map of which has been recorded in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of Edgar County; or a parcel of land, the deed of which was recorded in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of Edgar County.
(42) MANUFACTURING. The assembling, altering, converting, fabricating, finishing, processing, or treatment of a product.
(43) NONCONFORMING USE. The use of land or a building, or portion thereof, which use does not conform with the use regulations of the district in which it is situated.
(44) NURSING HOME, REST HOME or CONVALESCENT HOME. A place, residence or home used for the boarding and care, for a consideration, of three (3) nor more than fifty (50) persons, not members of the immediate family operating such facilities, who by reason of age or physical infirmity, are dependent upon the services of others. Such uses shall not include hospitals or other similar uses specified and regulated by the zoning ordinance.
(45) SHELTER-CARE HOME. A place, residence or home used for the boarding or care, for a consideration, of a person or persons, not members of the immediate family operating such facility, who by reason of mental disease or defect is in need of such care. Such use shall not include hospitals regulated by the zoning ordinance.
(46) Reserved.
(47) PARKING AREA. An open, unoccupied space used or required for use for parking of automobiles exclusively and in which no gasoline or automobile accessories are sold or no other business is conducted.
(48) PARKING SPACE. A surfaced area, enclosed in the main building or in an accessory building, or unenclosed having an area of not less than one hundred eighty (180) square feet exclusive of driveways, permanently reserved for the temporary storage of one automobile and connected with a street or alley by a surfaced driveway which affords satisfactory ingress and egress for automobiles.
(49) RESTAURANT. An establishment in which foods, refreshments or beverages are offered for sale for consumption in the building in which the establishment is located or at tables situated on the lot upon which the establishment is located. If any portion of the foods, refreshments, or beverage are
sold for consumption in automobiles parked on the lot upon which the establishment is located or on an adjoining lot, the establishment shall be considered to be a
DRIVE-IN RESTAURANT.
(50) STORY. That portion of a building, other than a cellar or basement (except one used for business or a residence), 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.
(51) STORY, HALF. A partial story under a gable, hip or gambrel roof, the wall plates of which on at least two (2) opposite exterior walls are not more than four (4) feet above the floor of such story, except that any partial story used for residence purposes, other than for a janitor or caretaker or his family, or by a family occupying the floor immediately below it, shall be deemed a full story.
(52) STREET. A public or private thoroughfare which affords the principal means of access to abutting property.
(53) STREET LINE. The STREET LINE is the dividing line between the street and the lot, otherwise designated as the PROPERTY LINE.
(54) STRUCTURE. Anything constructed or erected, the use of which requires more or less 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, advertising signs, billboards, backstops for tennis courts, and pergolas.
(55) STRUCTURAL ALTERATIONS. Any change in the supporting members of a structure, such as bearing walls, columns, beams, or girders, other than a change in doors or windows or a minor alteration which affects primarily the appearance and not the life of the structure.
(56) TRAILER, HOUSE. A vehicle designed or intended for use for, or used for, living or sleeping purposes and having no foundation other than wheels,
blocks, skids, jacks, horses, or skirtings. When a house trailer is attached to the ground by a permanent foundation, it shall be deemed to be a
TRAILER BUILDING; said trailer building shall not qualify as a dwelling as hereinbefore defined.
(57) WAREHOUSE. A building used for the storage of goods for compensation or the storage of goods which will be subsequently transported to another location for sale or consumption.
(58) YARD. An open space between a building and the adjoining lot lines, unoccupied and unobstructed by any portion of a structure from the ground upward, except as otherwise provided herein, and measured as the minimum horizontal distance between the lot line and the main building.
(59) YARD, FRONT. A yard extending across the front of a lot between the side yard lines and measured between the street or place line and the main building or any projection thereof other than the projections of the usual uncovered steps, uncovered balconies, or uncovered porches. On corner lots the FRONT YARD shall be considered as parallel to the street upon which the lot has its least dimension.
(60) YARD, REAR. A yard extending across the rear of a lot between the side lot lines and measured between the rear lot line and the rear of the main building or any projections thereof, other than the projections of uncovered steps, unenclosed balconies or unenclosed porches. On all lots the REAR YARD shall be at the opposite end of the lot from the front yard.
(61) YARD, SIDE. A yard between the main building and the side line of the lot, and extending from the front lot line to the required rear yard.
(62) TRUCK GARDENING. The cultivation, harvesting and sale of perishable, edible produce for commercial enterprise.
(63) TRAILER PARK OR CAMP. Any area containing five (5) or more mobile homes where
families, transients or tourists are accommodated in trailers or mobile homes.
(Am. Ord. 1990-10, passed 7-19-1990; Am. Ord. 1991-22, passed 12-9-1991; Am. Ord. 1995-29, passed 10-23-1995; Am. Ord. 1998-21, passed 9-9-1998; Am. Ord. 2013-8, passed 8-12-2013)