(A) Purposes.
(1) In addition to the objectives prescribed in § 155.001, the C Commercial Districts are included in the zoning ordinance to achieve the following purposes:
(a) To provide appropriately located areas for retail stores, offices, service establishments, amusement establishments, and wholesale businesses, offering commodities and services required by residents of the Village and its surrounding market area;
(b) To provide opportunities for retail stores, offices, service establishments, amusement establishments, and wholesale businesses to concentrate for the convenience of the public and in mutually beneficial relationships to each other;
(c) To provide space for community facilities and institutions that may be located in commercial areas;
(d) To provide adequate space to meet the needs of modern commercial development, including off-street parking and truck loading areas;
(e) To minimize traffic congestion and to avoid the overloading of utilities by preventing the construction of buildings of excessive size in relation to the amount of land around them;
(f) To protect commercial properties from noise, odor, dust, dirt, smoke, vibration, heat, glare, heavy truck traffic, and other objectionable influences incidental to industrial uses; and
(g) To protect commercial properties from fire, explosion, noxious fumes, and other hazards.
(Ord. 1992-10, § 600, passed 3-18-1993)
(2) Special purposes of CR Retail and Service Commercial District.
(a) To encourage consolidation and maximize the efficiency of the Village’s most intensively developed retail district by limiting or prohibiting uses that break the continuity of commercial frontage or are incompatible with an attractive pedestrian shopping area;
(b) To facilitate the future establishment of assessment districts for provision of off-street parking facilities by limiting or prohibiting drive-in type uses that would not benefit substantially from public off-street parking facilities; and
(c) To foster use of vacant buildings by permitting certain light industries as special uses.
(Ord. 1992-10, § 600.1, passed 3-18-1993)
(3) Special purposes of CG General Commercial District.
(a) To provide appropriately located areas for commercial uses having features that are incompatible with the purposes of the other commercial districts;
(b) To permit additional development in mixed commercial areas containing both retail sales and commercial services; and
(c) To foster use of vacant buildings by permitting certain light industries as special uses.
(Ord. 1992-10, § 600.2, passed 3-18-1993)
(4) Special purposes of CH Highway Commercial Thoroughfare District.
(a) To provide appropriately located areas for establishments catering to tourists and highway travelers;
(b) To enhance the appearance of certain entrances to the Village, and to protect motel and restaurant patrons from nuisances by limiting or prohibiting certain commercial service uses that often are unsightly or have nuisance features; and
(c) To provide appropriately located areas for establishments that generally require large sites and do not require close proximity to other retail uses.
(Ord. 1992-10, § 600.3, passed 3-18-1993)
(5) Special purposes of CO Limited Office District.
(a) To permit well-designed low-intensity office developments in proximity to residential uses, and to serve as a buffer between established commercial uses and residential neighborhoods. The intent is also to allow the conversion of structures built for residential purposes which are suitable for office use or select service oriented uses and thereby preserve their character. The CO Limited Office District can be relatively small in size, is generally located adjacent to a CR or CG district, and requires on-site protective measures to preserve adjacent residential property values; and
(b) To allow service oriented uses that are low traffic generators. No outside storage, sales, or displays are permitted in the CO District.
(Ord. 1992-10, § 600.4, passed 3-18-1993; Ord. 1995-3, passed 10-5-1995)
(B) Required conditions.
(2) In a CR District, all businesses, services, and processes shall be conducted entirely within a completely enclosed structure, except for off-street parking and loading areas; the sale of automobiles, implements, recreation vehicles; gasoline service stations; outdoor dining areas; nurseries; garden shops; Christmas tree sale lots; bus depots; and utility substations and equipment installations. Exhibits of goods sold or manufactured on the premises can be displayed outside only during normal business hours.
(3) No use shall be permitted, and no process, equipment, or material shall be employed which is found by the Village Board to be objectionable to persons residing or working in the vicinity or injurious to property located in the vicinity by reason of odor, insect nuisance, fumes, dust, smoke, cinders, dirt, refuse, water-carried wastes, noise, vibration, illumination, glare, unsightliness, or heavy truck traffic, or to involve any hazard of fire or explosion.
(4) All uses in a CO District shall comply with the specific regulations and basic requirements of § 155.015 pertaining to the CR District unless otherwise specified.
(5) (a) Whenever commercial property abuts property used or zoned for residential purposes, the commercial property shall, in addition to all other applicable standards of this chapter and the other ordinances and regulations of the Village, comply with the following standards:
1. No parking spaces and trash and/or garbage collection areas shall be closer to the residential property than 15 feet;
2. Every structure shall be set back at least 25 feet from the residential property;
3. The gross floor area of structure on the property shall not exceed .40 of the lot area; and
4. The gross area of impervious surfaces on the property shall not exceed .70 of the lot area.
(b) In the event of a conflict between the foregoing and any other regulations of the Village, the stricter standard shall be satisfied.
(Ord. 1992-10, § 601, passed 3-18-1993; Am. Ord. 1995-3, passed 10-5-1995; Am. Ord. 2004-21, passed 9-24-2004)
(C) Permitted uses. The following uses shall be permitted:
(1) CR Retail and Service Commercial.
(a) Business services;
(b) Convenience stores;
(c) Daycare centers;
(d) Parking;
(e) Personal services;
(f) Professional services;
(g) Retail trade;
(h) Essential services;
(i) Accessory structures and uses, not including warehouses, on the same site as a permitted use; and
(j) Civic uses.
(Ord. 1992-10, § 602.1, passed 3-18-1993; Am. Ord. 1995-3, passed 10-5-1995)
(2) CG General Commercial District.
(a) Amusement and recreation services;
(b) Any use which is permitted in the CR District;
(c) Automobile repair;
(d) Automotive sales;
(e) Garden supplies;
(f)
Reserved;
(g) Repair shops;
(h) Service stations;
(i) Churches;
(j) Civic uses;
(k) Clubs and associations;
(l) Parks;
(m) Schools;
(n) A dwelling unit incidental to and on the same site with a permitted use, subject to the regulations for the RM District;
(o) Public utility, public facility and public services, pumping stations, power stations, equipment building and installations, drainageways and structures, water storage tanks;
(p) Accessory structures and uses located on the same site as a permitted use; and
(q) Hotel, motel, and lodging houses.
(Ord. 1992-10, § 602.2, passed 3-18-1993; Am. Ord. 2015-30, passed 8-4-2015)
(3) CH Highway Commercial District.
(a) Any use which is permitted in the CR District and CG Districts;
(b) Automobile repair and services;
(c) Automotive, implement, and recreation vehicle sales; and
(d) Hotel, motel, and lodging houses.
(Ord. 1992-10, § 602.3, passed 3-18-1993)
(4) CO Limited Office District.
(a) Business and professional offices;
(b) Medical, dental, and counseling office (excluding clinics) not exceeding 3,000 square feet in size;
(c) Tea rooms;
(d) Gift and/or antique shops;
(e) Photography studio;
(f) Bed and breakfast; and
(g) Financial institutions: banks, savings and loans, credit unions, mortgage brokerages, and consumer loan operations.
(Ord. 1992-10, § 602.4, passed 3-18-1993; Ord. 1995-3, passed 10-5-1995)
(Ord. 1992-10, § 603, passed 3-18-1993)
(1) CR Retail and Service Commercial District.
(a) Light industrial uses permitted in § 155.049(C)(1), IL District, provided that all of the conditions prescribed by division (B) if this section are met and provided that no motor power other than electrically operated motors shall be used;
(b) Charitable institutions;
(c) Churches, parsonages, parish houses, monasteries, convents, and other religious institutions;
(d) Hospitals, sanitariums, and nursing homes;
(e) Private museums;
(f) Public utility, public facility and public services, pumping stations, power stations, equipment buildings and installations, drainageways and structures, water storage tanks found by the Village Board of Trustees to be necessary for the public health, safety, or welfare;
(h) Service stations, including light automotive repair service, provided that all operations except the sale of gasoline and oil and the washing of cars shall be conducted within a building enclosed on at least 3 sides;
(i) Accessory structures and uses located on the same site as a special use;
(j) Boarding houses; and hotel, motel, and lodging houses; and
(k) Bed and breakfast.
(Ord. 1992-10, § 603.1, passed 3-18-1993)
(2) CG Service Commercial District.
(a) Any use which may be allowed as a special use in the CR Districts;
(b) Auction sales rooms;
(c) Blacksmith shops;
(d) Building material yards other than gravel, rock, or cement yards;
(e) Contractors’ equipment rental yards;
(f) Contractors’ storage yards;
(g) Lumber yards, not including planing or saw mills;
(h) Stone and monument yards;
(i) Second-hand sales conducted entirely inside a building;
(j) Welding shops;
(k) Light industrial uses permitted in § 155.049(C), IL Light Industrial District, provided that all of the conditions prescribed by division (B) of this section are met;
(l) Storage of fuel or flammable liquids; and
(m) Bed and breakfast; and boarding houses.
(Ord. 1992-10, § 603.2, passed 3-18-1993)
(3) CH Highway Commercial District.
(a) Any use which may be allowed as a special use in the CR and CG Districts;
(b) Commercial amusement establishments, including:
1. Amusement parks;
2. Boat launching ramps;
3. Carnival, circuses, and other transient amusement enterprises;
4. Drive-in theaters;
5. Pony riding rings; and
6. Sports stadiums.
(c) Bed and breakfast; and boarding houses.
(Ord. 1992-10, § 603.3, passed 3-18-1993)
(4) CO Limited Office District.
(a) Medical, dental, and counseling offices over 3,000 square feet;
(b) Funeral homes;
(c) Community service organization - multiple use;
(d) Interior decorating shop or upholstery shop, excluding furniture sales, and retail sales on premises;
(e) Public utility, public facility, and public services, pumping stations, power stations, equipment buildings and installations, drainageways and structures, storage tanks, found by the Village Board of Trustees to be necessary for the public health, safety, or welfare;
(f) Accessory structures and uses located on the same site as a special use;
(g) Beauty shop and barber shop, limited to 3 stations, and nail and tanning salons;
(h) Travel agency;
(i) Tailor or dressmaker;
(j) Library; and
(k) Any drive-up or drive-through facilities and services incidental to a permitted or special use in a CO District.
(Ord. 1992-10, § 603.4, passed 3-18-1993; Am. Ord. 1995-3, passed 10-5-1995)
Editor’s note:
This section was also amended by Ord. 1999-9, passed August 5, 1999.