The B-4 Highway Business District is intended to provide the orderly and attractive grouping at appropriate locations along principal highway routes of those businesses and customer service establishments which are logically related to and dependent upon highway traffic or which are specifically designed to serve the needs of such traffic.
A. Uses. Uses in the B-4 Highway Business District are allowed and/or limited as set forth below and in the referenced sections of this Municipal Code.
1. Special Regulations. To encourage a business use environment that is compatible with the residential character of the Village, Zoning Permits for uses in B-4 Highway Business District shall not be issued without prior review by and approval of the Village Plan Commission. Said review and approval shall be concerned with adjacent uses, need for public or private water supply and sanitary sewage disposal facilities, general layout, building site and operation plans, ingress, egress, parking, loading and unloading, screening and landscape plans pursuant to this Chapter.
2. Permitted Principal Uses (see Section 35-230 for review requirements):
Those Permitted Principal Uses set forth under Section 35-43 for the B-3 General Business District, except as limited below
Lumber and Building Supply Stores
Drive-in or drive-through restaurants or other establishments providing service to customers without the necessity of entering the building
Fast food stores and restaurants
Fuel service stations, provided that all islands and pumps shall meet the setback and yard requirements set forth herein
Transit bus service
Note: All drive-in facilities require Conditional Use Permits
Note: All developments within 50 feet of any existing or mapped state trunk highway or county trunk highway and/or within 150 feet of an existing or mapped centerline of intersection with any other road require Conditional Use Permits
3. Accessory and Other Uses:
a. Garages for storage of licensed vehicles in conjunction with the operation of the business or for occupants of the business.
b. Off-street parking areas.
c. See s. 35-21 of this Chapter.
4. Conditional Uses. See s. 35-100.
Child care centers, provided that any outside play area is surrounded by a security fence not exceeding a height of six feet and set back at least five feet from any street right-of-way line with landscaping provided between the fence and the street right-of-way line; and that no play area shall consist of entirely a hard surface.
Experimental, testing and research laboratories.
Funeral homes, provided all principal structures and uses are not less than 25 feet from any lot line
General warehousing.
Hobby Use, as that term is defined by the Internal Revenue Service, provided that sales made from the site shall be limited to those occasional sales as allowed during the conditional use permitting process.
Light manufacturing, of a limited nature and size, that is found by the Plan Commission not to be detrimental to the neighborhood and will not emit noise, smoke, dust, dirt, odorous or noxious gases.
Printing and publishing houses and related activities.
Storage / Warehouse, provided that storage of hazardous materials, including but not limited to explosive, flammable or combustible solid, liquid or gas, radioactive material, etiological (disease causing) agents, or any solid, liquid or gas creating a hazard, potential hazard, or public nuisance, or any solid, liquid or gas having a deleterious effect on the environment shall not be allowed.
Truck and Bus Terminals for the parking, repair and service of the vehicles, provided no trans- shipment or warehousing facilities are provided.
B. Lot, Area and Width Requirements.
Lot | Width | Minimum 200 feet |
Area | Minimum two acres | |
Building | Height | Maximum 35 feet |
Area | Minimum 1,200 sq. ft. single story 1,700 sq. ft. multiple story | |
Yard (Setbacks) | Street | Minimum 55 ft. |
Side | Minimum 30 feet, or equal to the required sideyard in the adjacent district, whichever is greater | |
Rear | Minimum 30 feet |
(Ord. 2019-1, passed 4-8-2019)