Whenever the following words or terms are used in this Title they shall have the meanings herein ascribed to them unless the content makes such meaning repugnant thereto:
ADULT-USE CANNABIS CRAFT GROWER: | A facility operated by an organization or business that is licensed by the Illinois Department of Agriculture to cultivate, dry, cure and package cannabis and perform other necessary activities to make cannabis available for sale at an adult-use dispensing organization or use at an adult-use processing organization, per the Cannabis Regulation and Tax Act, as amended, and regulations promulgated thereunder. |
ADULT-USE CANNABIS CULTIVATION CENTER: | A facility operated by an organization or business that is licensed by the Illinois Department of Agriculture to cultivate, process, transport and perform necessary activities to provide cannabis and cannabis-infused products to licensed adult-use cannabis business establishments, per the Cannabis Regulation and Tax Act, as amended, and regulations promulgated thereunder. |
ADULT-USE CANNABIS DISPENSING ORGANIZATION: | A facility operated by an organization or business that is licensed by the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation to acquire cannabis from licensed cannabis business establishments for the purpose of selling or dispensing cannabis, cannabis-infused products, cannabis seeds, paraphernalia or related supplies to adult-use purchasers, per the Cannabis Regulation and Tax Act, as amended, and regulations promulgated thereunder. |
ADULT-USE CANNABIS INDUSTRIAL ORGANIZATION: | An adult-use cannabis cultivation center, adult-use cannabis craft grower, adult-use cannabis processing organization, adult-use cannabis infuser organization, or adult-use cannabis transporting organization. |
ADULT-USE CANNABIS INFUSER ORGANIZATION: | A facility operated by an organization or business that is licensed by the Illinois 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, as amended, and regulations promulgated thereunder. |
ADULT-USE CANNABIS ORGANIZATION: | An adult-use cannabis cultivation center, adult-use cannabis craft grower, adult-use cannabis processing organization, adult-use cannabis infuser organization, adult-use cannabis dispensing organization or adult-use cannabis transporting organization. |
ADULT-USE CANNABIS PROCESSING ORGANIZATION or PROCESSOR: | A facility operated by an organization or business that is licensed by the Illinois 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, per the Cannabis Regulation and Tax Act, as it may be amended from time-to-time, and regulations promulgated thereunder. |
ADULT-USE CANNABIS TRANSPORTATION ORGANIZATION: | An organization or business that is licensed by the Illinois Department of Agriculture to transport cannabis on behalf of an adult-use cannabis business establishment or a community college licensed under the Community College Cannabis Vocational Training Pilot Program, per the Cannabis Regulation and Tax Act, as amended, and regulations promulgated thereunder. |
ALLEY: | The word "alley" shall mean a narrow thoroughfare upon which abuts generally the rear of premises and is not used generally by both pedestrians and vehicles, or which is less than thirty feet (30') in width. |
APARTMENT HOUSE: | The term "apartment house" shall mean a building which is used or intended to be used as a home or residence for more than two (2) families living in separate apartments. |
APARTMENT HOTEL: | The term "apartment hotel" shall mean an apartment house in which are provided dining room accommodations for the joint use of apartment house tenants. |
BOARDING HOUSE: | The term "boarding house" shall mean a building or premise where meals are regularly served, or is equipped to serve such meals, by prearrangement for definite periods for compensation, not open to transients. |
BILLBOARD: | The term "billboard" shall mean any structure affixed to the surface of the land or attached to a building, designed, arranged, used or intended to be used exclusively as a sign. |
BLOCK: | The term "block" shall mean the property abutting on a street on one side of such street and lying between the two (2) nearest intersecting or intercepting streets or nearest intersecting or intercepting streets and railroad right of way. |
BUILDING: | The word "building" shall mean a structure entirely separated from any other structure by space or by walls in which there are no communicating doors or windows or similar openings and having a roof supported by walls or columns for the shelter, support or enclosure of persons, animals or chattels. Two (2) or more buildings designed and intended for use as two (2) family dwellings, apartment houses, apartment hotels, stores, or other like business occupancy may be considered as one building if constructed as a single unit. |
BUILDING AREA: | The term "building area" shall mean the maximum horizontal projected area of a building and its accessories, excluding open steps, terraces and cornices projecting not more than twenty inches (20"). |
BUILDING LINE SETBACK: | The term "building line setback" shall mean a line established herein generally parallel with the street line, between such line and the tree line the front line of a building shall not be built or located. |
BUSINESS: | The word "business" shall mean the engaging in the purchase, sale, barter or exchange of goods, wares or merchandise; the maintenance or operation of offices or recreational or amusement enterprises operated for profit. |
CANNABIS DISPENSING ORGANIZATION: | Any adult-use cannabis dispensing organization or medical cannabis dispensing organization. |
CANNABIS INDUSTRIAL ORGANIZATION: | Any facility operated by an adult-use cannabis cultivation center, adult-use cannabis craft grower, adult-use cannabis processing organization, adult-use cannabis infuser organization, adult-use cannabis transporting organization, medical cannabis cultivation center, medical cannabis craft grower, medical cannabis processing organization, medical cannabis infuser organization, or medical cannabis transporting organization. |
CANNABIS ORGANIZATION: | Any adult-use cannabis organization or medical cannabis organization. |
DEPTH OF LOT: | The term "depth of lot" shall mean a section of the Village for which uniform regulations governing the height, area and use of buildings and premises within the section are established in reference to that particular section. |
DWELLING; SINGLE-FAMILY: | The term "single-family dwelling" shall mean a detached building occupied by or designed for occupancy by one family. |
DWELLING; TWO- FAMILY: | The term "two-family dwelling" shall mean occupied by or designed for occupancy by two (2) families living independently of each other. |
FAMILY: | The word "family" shall mean one or more individuals related by blood, marriage or adoption or not to exceed five (5) persons not so related, living, sleeping, cooking, and eating on the premises as a single housekeeping unit. |
FRONT YARD: | The term "front yard" shall mean an open unoccupied space between the front line of the building and the street line. |
FRONT LINE OF BUILDING: | The term "front line of building" shall mean the line of the main wall nearest to and facing the street, including such wall of sun parlors, or porches, open or enclosed and excluding only open steps and terraces and walls or fences not more than three and one-half feet (3%') in height. (1965 Code) |
GARAGE; PRIVATE: | An accessory building designed for the occupancy of not more than two (2) passenger motor vehicles of the family residing on the same premises or in which space is provided for not more than one automobile rented to a person not an occupant of the premises. (Ord. 78-15, 9-12-78) |
GARAGE; PUBLIC: | The term "public garage" shall mean a garage other than a private garage, used for housing or care of more than three (3) automobiles or where such vehicles are equipped for operation, repaired or kept for remuneration, hire or sale. |
HEIGHT OF BUILDING: | The term "height of building" shall mean the vertical distance from the established grade to the average finished ceiling line of the topmost habitable story; provided, that penthouses, towers or steeples shall not be counted in measuring the height of a building. |
HOME OCCUPATION: | The term "home occupation" shall mean an occupation for gain or support conducted entirely and only by members of the family within a residential building; and provided, that no article is sold or offered for sale except such as may be produced in the household by members of the family. |
HOTEL: | The word "Hotel" shall mean a building in which board and lodging are provided and offered to the public for compensation, open to transients. |
LOT: | The word "Lot" shall mean a zoning lot except as the context shall indicate a lot of record in which case a "Lot" is a lot of record. |
LOT OF RECORD: | The term "Lot of Record" shall mean an area of land designated as a lot on a plat of subdivision recorded or registered, pursuant to Statute, with the Recorder of Deeds of Cook County. |
LOT, ZONING: | See Zoning Lot. |
LOT, CORNER: | The term "Corner Lot" shall mean a lot located at the intersection of two (2) streets or a lot bounded on two (2) sides by a curving street any two (2) chords of which form an angle of one hundred twenty degrees (120) or less measured on the lot side. |
LOT, INTERIOR: | The term "Interior Lot" shall mean a lot other than a. corner lot or a through lot. |
LOT, THROUGH: | The term "Through Lot" shall mean a lot having frontage on two (2) streets at opposite ends of the lot. |
MEDICAL CANNABIS CULTIVATION CENTER: | A facility operated by an organization or business that is licensed by the Illinois Department of Agriculture to cultivate, process, transport and perform necessary activities to provide cannabis and cannabis-infused products to licensed medical cannabis dispensing organizations, per the Compassionate Use of Medical Cannabis Program Act, as it may be amended from time-to-time, and regulations promulgated thereunder. |
MEDICAL CANNABIS DISPENSING ORGANIZATION: | A facility operated by an organization or business that is licensed by the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation to acquire cannabis from licensed cannabis business establishments for the purpose of selling or dispensing cannabis, cannabis-infused products, cannabis seeds, paraphernalia or related supplies to registered qualifying patients, per the Compassionate Use of Medical Cannabis Program Act, as it may be amended from time-to-time, and regulations promulgated thereunder. |
MEDICAL CANNABIS INDUSTRIAL ORGANIZATION: | A medical cannabis cultivation center, medical cannabis processing organization, medical cannabis infuser organization, or medical cannabis transporting organization. |
MEDICAL CANNABIS INFUSER ORGANIZATION: | A facility operated by an organization or business that is licensed by the Illinois Department of Agriculture to directly incorporate cannabis or cannabis concentrate into a product formulation to produce a cannabis-infused product, per the Compassionate Use of Medical Cannabis Program Act, as amended, and regulations promulgated thereunder. |
MEDICAL CANNABIS ORGANIZATION: | A medical cannabis cultivation center, medical cannabis processing organization, medical cannabis infuser organization, medical cannabis dispensing organization, or medical cannabis transporting organization. |
MEDICAL CANNABIS PROCESSING ORGANIZATION: | A facility operated by an organization or business that is licensed by the Illinois 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, per the Compassionate Use of Medical Cannabis Program Act, as amended, and regulations promulgated thereunder. |
MEDICAL CANNABIS TRANSPORTING ORGANIZATION: | An organization or business that is licensed by the Illinois Department of Agriculture to transport cannabis on behalf of a medical cannabis business establishment, per the Compassionate Use of Medical Cannabis Program Act, as it may be amended from time-to-time, and regulations promulgated thereunder. |
NONCONFORMIN G USE: | The term "Nonconforming Use" shall mean a building, premises or use that does not conform with the regulations of the use district in which it is situated. |
PARKING SPACE: | The term "Parking Space" shall mean an area not less than nine feet by twenty feet (9' x 20') exclusive of access drives or aisles, connected with or accessible to a street or alley. |
PERFORMANCE STANDARDS: | "Performance Standards" shall be defined as follows: |
(A) Decibel: A unit of measurement of the intensity of loudness of sound. Sound level meters are used to measure such intensities and are calibrated in decibels. | |
(B) Flash Point: The lowest temperature at which a combustible liquid under prescribed conditions will give off a flammable vapor which will burn momentarily using the closed cup method. | |
(C) Foot-Candle: A unit of illumination. It is equivalent to the illumination at all points which are one foot (1') distant from a uniform source of one (1) candlepower. | |
(D) Free Burning: A rate of combustion described by a material which burns actively and easily supports combustion. | |
(E) Intense Burning: A rate of combustion described by a material that burns with a high degree of activity and is consumed rapidly. | |
(F) Moderate Burning: A rate of combustion described by a material which supports combustion and is consumed slowly as it burns. | |
(G) Octave Band: A narrow range of sound frequencies which classify sounds according to pitch. In the octave band analyzer the audible sound spectrum is divided into eight octave bands. | |
(H) Octave Band Analyzer: An electrical device used with the sound level meter that sorts a complex noise or sound into the various octave bands. | |
(I) Particulate Matter: Finely divided liquid or solid material which is discharged and carried along in the air. This shall not include water droplets, commonly called steam. | |
(J) Resultant Displacement: The maximum amount of motion in any direction and shall be determined by means of any three (3) component (simultaneous) measuring system approved by the Building Department. | |
(K) Ringelmann Number: The number of the area on the Ringelmann chart that most nearly matches the light obscuring capacity of smoke. The Ringelmann chart is described in the U.S. Bureau of Mines Information Circular #6888, on which are illustrated graduated shades of gray for use in estimating smoke density. Smoke below the density of Ringelmann Number 1 shall be considered no smoke or Ringelmann Number 0. | |
(L) Slow Burning or Incombustible: 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 Fahrenheit (1200°F.). | |
(M) Smoke: A suspension of fine particles, excluding water droplets, in a gaseous plume, which obscure the transmission of light. | |
(N) Smoke Unit: The number obtained when the smoke density in Ringelmann number is multiplied by the time of emission in minutes. For the purpose of this calculation, a Ringelmann density reading shall be made at least once a minute during the period of observation; each reading is then multiplied by the time in minutes during which it is observed. The various products are then added together to give the total number of smoke units observed during the entire observation period. | |
(O) Three Component Measuring System: Instrumentation which can measure earth borne vibrations in three (3) directions, that is, vibration occurring in a horizontal as well as a vertical plane. | |
(P) Vibration: Oscillatory motion transmitted through the ground. | |
PROFESSIONAL OFFICE: | The term "Professional Office" shall mean when conducted in a residential district, be incidental to the residential occupation, shall be conducted entirely within a residential building and shall include only the offices of doctors, or practitioners, beauticians, ministers, lawyers, authors, artists, musicians and other professional occupations occasionally conducted within residences. |
REAR YARD: | An open space between the rear line of the building and the rear line of the lot, for the full width of the lot and unoccupied except for authorized accessory buildings. |
SIDE YARD: | Open unoccupied space on the same lot with a building between the side of the building and the side line of the lot and extending from the street line to the rear line of the building, except on a corner lot, the side yard on the street side shall extend from the front street line to the rear lot line. |
SIGN: | An advertisement, announcement, mark of identification or symbol attached to, painted or illuminated, directly or indirectly upon any land or building, except the flag, emblem or insignia of a nation, school or religious group. |
STREET: | A thoroughfare over thirty feet (30') in width between property lines, used for public foot and vehicle traffic, other than an alley. A street may consist of two (2) or more lanes of pavement for through vehicular traffic, a parking lane on one or both sides of such traffic lanes, parkways or grass plots outside parking or traffic lanes, and public sidewalks for foot traffic. |
STREET LINE: | The dividing line between a street and the lot. The front street line of a corner lot is the shortest street line. |
STREET WALL: | The wall of a building nearest to and facing on a street. |
VISION CLEARANCE: | A triangular area, twenty five feet (25') along a front lot line and forty feet (40') along the side lot line of a corner lot, or a triangular area, twenty five feet (25') along the rear lot line and forty feet (40') along a side street line of a lot which is adjoined on its rear line by the side line of a lot fronting on a side street. Such area shall be unobstructed by any wall, fence, hedge or shrubbery over three and one-half feet (31/2') in height, except an open type fence that does not reduce visibility in excess of twenty percent (20%) may exceed three and one-half feet (31/2') but not over six feet (6') in height. |
ZONING LOT: | A single tract of land located within a single block which, at the time of filing for a building permit, is designated by its owner or developer as a tract to be used, developed or built upon as a unit, under single ownership or control. A zoning lot may or may not coincide with a lot of record. (Ord. 2020-06, 3-10-2020) |