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Paxton, IL Code of Ordinances
CITY OF PAXTON, ILLINOIS Code of Ordinances
TITLE I: GENERAL PROVISIONS
TITLE III: ADMINISTRATION
TITLE V: PUBLIC WORKS
TITLE VII: TRAFFIC CODE
TITLE IX: GENERAL REGULATIONS
TITLE XI: BUSINESS REGULATIONS
TITLE XIII: GENERAL OFFENSES
TITLE XV: LAND USAGE
TABLE OF SPECIAL ORDINANCES
PARALLEL REFERENCES
APPENDIX B: BUSINESS DISTRICTS
   (A)   Permitted uses.
B-1
B-2
B-3
B-1
B-2
B-3
Agricultural implement sales and service.
x
Air conditioning and heating and sales and service.
x
x
x
Ambulance service.
x
x
Amusement establishments--bowling alleys, pool halls, dance halls, skating rinks, and other similar places of recreation.
x
x
Antique shops.
x
x
x
Art and school supply stores.
x
x
x
Art galleries and studios.
x
x
x
Auction rooms.
x
x
Automobile accessory store, where there is no driveway entrance across the sidewalk into the main building.
x
x
Automobile laundries.
x
x
Automobile service stations.
x
x
Automobile washing, including the use of mechanical conveyors, blowers, and steam-cleaning.
x
Automobile and truck sales and services, including motor and body repair and painting.
x
Automobile sales and service shops, including painting and etc.
x
x
Bakery shops, including the baking and processing of food products, when prepared for retail use on the premises only.
x
x
x
Banks and financial institutions.
x
x
x
Barber shops, beauty parlors, chiropody, massage, or similar personal service shops.
x
x
x
Battery and tire service stations.
x
B-1
B-2
B-3
B-1
B-2
B-3
Blueprinting and photostating establishments.
x
x
Beverages, non-alcoholic, bottling and distributing.
x
Bicycle sales and repair.
x
x
Bicycle and motorcycle sales and repair.
x
Boat showrooms - sales and service.
x
x
Book binding.
x
Book and stationery stores.
x
x
x
Building materials sales, when conducted wholly within a building.
x
Candy and ice cream shops.
x
x
x
Camera and photographic supply shops for retail sales.
x
x
x
Carpet, rug and linoleum stores.
x
x
x
Catering establishments.
x
x
China and glassware stores.
x
x
x
Clubs or lodges (non-profit), fraternal or religious institutions.
x
x
x
Coin and philatelic stores.
x
x
x
Costume rental shop.
x
x
Contractors' offices and shops, where no fabrication is done on the premises and where all storage of materials and equipment is within a building.
x
Currency exchanges.
x
x
x
Cutting of glass, mirror and glazing establishments.
x
x
Custom dressmaking, millinery, tailoring or shoe repair shops, when conducted for retail sale on the premises only.
x
x
x
Department stores.
x
x
x
Dry goods stores.
x
x
x
Drug stores.
x
x
x
B-1
B-2
B-3
B-1
B-2
B-3
Dry-cleaning and pressing establishments, when employing facilities for the cleaning and pressing of not more than 750 pounds of dry goods per day, and when using perchlorethylene or other similar non-inflammable solvents approved by the Fire Department.
x
x
x
Electrical appliance stores and repairs, but not including appliance assembly or manufacture.
x
x
x
Employment agencies.
x
x
x
Exterminating shops.
x
x
Feed and seed store, wholesale.
x
Florist shops and conservatories for retail trade on the premises only.
x
x
x
Food, meat and fruit stores.
x
x
x
Frozen food stores and food lockers.
x
x
x
Furniture stores, and upholstery when conducted as a part of the retail operations and secondary to the main use.
x
x
x
Furrier, when conducted for retail trade on the premises only.
x
x
x
Gift shops.
x
x
x
Greenhouse.
x
Hardware stores.
x
x
x
Haberdasheries.
x
x
x
Heating and air conditioning (fabricating and assembly) shops.
x
Hobby stores.
x
x
x
Hotels and motels, including restaurants and meeting rooms.
x
x
x
Household appliance stores and repair.
x
x
x
Interior decorating shops, including upholstery and making of draperies, slip covers and other similar articles when conducted as a part of the retail operations and secondary to the main use.
x
x
x
Jewelry and watch repair shops.
x
x
x
B-1
B-2
B-3
B-1
B-2
B-3
Laundries, automatic self-service types or hand.
x
x
x
Leather goods and luggage stores.
x
x
x
Live bait stores.
x
Locksmith.
x
x
x
Meeting halls.
x
x
x
Millinery shops.
x
x
x
Motels.
x
Musical instrument sales and repair, retail trade only.
x
x
x
News stand.
x
x
x
Offices, business and professional, including medical clinics.
x
x
x
Optician, optometrist.
x
x
x
Orthopedic and medical appliance store, but not including the assembly or manufacture of such articles.
x
x
x
Package liquor stores.
x
x
x
Pet shops, but not including animal hospitals.
x
x
x
Pet shop or animal hospital when conducted wholly within an enclosed building.
x
Photography studios, including the development of film and pictures when done as a part of the retail business on the premises.
x
x
x
Planned developments, business as defined herein.
Plumbing and heating showroom and shops.
x
x
x
Plumbing, heating and roofing supply shops.
x
Picture framing, when conducted for retail trade on the premises.
x
x
x
Photo developing and processing.
x
x
x
Printing, publishing and issuing of periodicals, books, stationery, and other reading matter.
x
Postal sub-stations.
x
x
x
B-1
B-2
B-3
B-1
B-2
B-3
Processing or assembly limited to the following, provided that space occupied in a building does not exceed 6,000 square feet of total floor space and basement space, and not including stairwells or elevator shafts; and provided that such processing or assembly can be conducted without noise, vibration, odor, dust, or any other condition which might be disturbing to occupants of adjacent buildings. When manufacturing operations of the same or similar products demand space exceeding 6,000 square feet, they shall be located in the M-1 Manufacturing District.
x
   1.   Advertising displays.
x
   2.   Awnings, venetian blinds and window shades.
x
   3.   Brushes and brooms.
x
   4.   Bakeries, wholesale.
x
   5.   Cosmetics, drugs and perfumes.
x
   6.   Electrical equipment appliances.
x
   7.   Food processing, packaging and distribution.
x
   8.   Jewelry.
x
   9.   Medical and dental supplies.
x
   10.   Optical goods and equipment.
x
   11.   Pattern making.
x
   12.   Scientific and precision instruments.
x
   13.   Products from finished materials such as bone, cloth, cork, feather, felt, fibre, fur, glass, hair, horn, leather, plastic, precious or semi-precious stones, paper, rubber, shell or yarn.
x
Public utility collection offices.
x
x
x
Public utility and public service uses, including: Public art galleries and museums; public libraries, telephone exchanges; repeater stations; microwave relay towers and stations; mobile transmitting towers and stations, antenna towers and other outdoor equipment essential to the operation of the exchange in the interest of public convenience and necessity; bus terminals or other public transportation terminal facilities and other similar uses.
x
x
x
B-1
B-2
B-3
B-1
B-2
B-3
Restaurants and taverns - including live entertainment and dancing.
x
Restaurants, tearooms, or cafes, when the establishment is not of the drive-in type where food is served to occupants remaining in motor vehicles.
x
x
x
Savings and loan associations.
x
x
x
Sewing machine sales and service.
x
x
x
Shoe and hat stores, and repairing when done as a part of the retail business.
x
x
x
Signs, as regulated by §§ 151.075 - 151.079.
x
x
x
Sporting goods stores.
x
x
x
Storage and warehousing, and wholesale establishments.
x
Taverns.
x
x
x
Taxidermist shops.
x
Telegraph offices.
x
x
x
Telephone booths, public.
x
x
x
Tinsmiths.
x
Tobacco shops.
x
x
x
Toy stores.
x
x
x
Trailer sales or rental (house trailers) business on an open lot or within a building, not occupancy of trailers.
x
Travel bureau and transportation ticket offices.
x
x
x
Typewriter and adding machines sales and services.
x
x
x
Undertaking establishments.
x
Used passenger automobile sales on an open lot or within a building.
x
Wearing apparel shops.
x
x
x
 
   (B)   Special uses. The following uses may be allowed by special use permit in accordance with the provisions of the Administrative Section.
B-1
B-2
B-3
B-1
B-2
B-3
Automobile service stations.
x
x
x
Churches, rectories and parish houses.
x
x
x
Clubs or lodges (non-profit), fraternal or religious institutions.
x
x
x
Fairgrounds, circuses, coliseums, race tracks, and other similar exposition and recreational uses.
x
x
x
Hospitals and sanitariums.
x
x
x
Hotels, motels, including restaurants and meeting rooms.
x
x
x
Medical and dental clinics.
x
x
x
Outdoor theaters (drive-in).
x
Outdoor amusement establishments, fairgrounds, carnivals, circuses, race tracks and other similar amusement centers and including places of assembly devoted thereto, such as stadiums, and arenas.
x
Planned developments, business, as defined in the Administrative Section.
x
x
x
Parks, when publicly owned and operated.
x
x
x
Public utility and public service uses, including:
x
x
x
   1.   Electric substations.
x
x
x
   2.   Fire stations.
x
x
x
   3.   Police stations.
x
x
x
   4.   Public art galleries and museums.
x
x
x
   5.   Public libraries.
x
x
x
   6.   Telephone exchange, repeater stations, microwave relay towers and stations, mobile transmitting towers and stations, antenna towers and other outdoor equipment essential to the operation of the exchange in the interest of public convenience and necessity.
x
x
x
B-1
B-2
B-3
B-1
B-2
B-3
Public utility and public service uses, including:
x
x
x
   7.   Bus terminal or other public transportation terminal facilities.
x
x
x
   8.   Water filtration plants.
x
x
x
   9.   Water pumping stations.
x
x
x
   10.   Water reservoir.
x
x
x
   11.   Other similar uses.
x
x
x
Riding academies and public stables.
x
Other retail business uses not specifically listed above when found to have economic compatibility with established uses on adjoining property.
x
 
   (C)   Residential uses, as follows:
 
B-1
B-2
B-3
Dwelling units and lodging rooms, if business uses or premises designed for such uses occupy the ground floor and provided that either:
1.   Not less than 20% of the frontage on the same street and within the same block, or 20% of the frontage directly across the street from such frontage, is already developed with the buildings in which there are dwelling units or lodging rooms; or
2.   At least two-thirds of the frontage in the entire block is zoned for business, and not less than 20% of the frontage so zoned for business is already developed with buildings in which there are dwelling units or lodging rooms.
x
x
x
(Ord. 88-30, passed 8-8-88)

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