(A) Purpose.
(1) SPECIAL USE, as used throughout this chapter, means facilities classified as main and accessory uses listed in division (B) below.
(2) The SU District and regulations are established in order to achieve the following purposes:
(a) To regulate the location and standards for development of such uses and structures so as to ensure their proper functioning in consideration of traffic, access and general compatibility; and
(b) To protect listed uses from the encroachment of particular incompatible uses and to promote their compatibility with adjoining residential uses.
(B) Permitted uses. Buildings and land within the SU District shall be utilized only for the uses set forth in the following schedule:
Main Buildings/Uses | Accessory Buildings/Uses |
Main Buildings/Uses | Accessory Buildings/Uses |
Cemeteries. | Signs, maintenance facilities, mausoleums |
Civic. Art galleries, libraries, museums, and similar places for public assembly; memorials, monuments, fraternal organizations and private clubs | Maintenance facilities. Bulletin boards and signs as hereinafter regulated |
Commercial recreational facilities. Private parks, golf courses, swim clubs, recreation fields and playgrounds, and similar facilities, not including such facilities developed for private use by occupants or residents of the premises | Parking areas, clubhouses, administrative and maintenance structures, signs |
Communication:. Cellular telephone towers; radio and television antennas and towers | |
Educational. Primary and secondary public, private or parochial schools, nursery schools | Parking areas, playgrounds, signs |
Health care. General and special hospital and clinics, convalescent centers, institutions for care of children or senior citizens | Parking areas, signs |
Infrastructure. Buildings housing equipment and offices related to the provision of essential services, but not including actual lines and smaller structures such as pump stations | Parking areas, signs |
Mixed use developments. Single parcels of land on which a variety of housing types and densities, perhaps with subordinate commercial public, institutional or other nonresidential uses, are accommodated in a planned environment | Parking areas, signs |
Religious. Churches and places of worship | Maintenance facilities and parking areas, signs |
Senior citizen housing. Including senior apartment and condominium projects; assisted and/or extended care facilities; retirement centers | Parking areas, signs |
Signage. Billboards | |
(C) Prohibited uses. Keeping, feeding, grazing, or sheltering of hoofed animals, poultry, fowl, or the like.
(D) Development standards.
(1) The area or parcel of land for a special use shall not be less than that required to adequately provide for the main building, accessory buildings and uses, off-street parking, set backs, yards and open spaces to accommodate the facility and maintain the character of the neighborhood. The suitability of the area or parcel of land for a permitted special use shall be approved by the Planning and Zoning Board through review of the development plan, pursuant to division (E) below.
(2) In mixed use developments, the overall residential density of the development shall not exceed four dwelling units per acre. The calculation of such density shall be based on the total number of dwelling units divided by the area proposed for residential use.
(3) Senior citizen housing developed in the SU District shall comply with the development standards of the AR District.
(4) Commercial development permitted in the SU District as part of a mixed-use development shall comply with the development standards of the SB District. Industrial development permitted in the SU District as part of a mixed-use development shall comply with the development standards of the I District.
(D) Yard regulations.
(1) Front yards. The front yard setback shall be not less than the largest required front yard setback for any adjacent zoning district.
(2) Side and rear yards. The yards for each building or structure in the SU District shall be not less than the criteria set forth in the following schedule when adjacent to any district where residences are a permitted use.
Main Building/Uses | Minimum Side/Rear Yards (ft.) |
Main Building/Uses | Minimum Side/Rear Yards (ft.) |
Civic. Non-assembly buildings | 50 |
Assembly buildings | 75 |
Educational. Public, private and parochial schools | 75 |
Health care. Buildings | 50 |
Senior citizen housing | 50 |
Religious. Churches and planned public worship | 75 |
Mixed use developments. | (to be determined by Planning and Zoning Board during review) |
Infrastructure. Buildings | 50 |
Communication. Antennas or antenna towers | 100% of the height |
Commercial recreation: facilities. Buildings | 75 |
Signs. Billboards | 75 |
(a) If the proposed special use is located adjacent to a nonresidential zoning district, then the side and rear yards shall be not less than the largest yard required in that district.
(b) If side or rear yards are adjacent to a district where single-family residential uses are a permitted use, the screening or buffering of such yards shall be required, pursuant to § 152.069.
(E) Approval By Planning and Zoning Board. In addition to the material required for the application for a zoning amendment, as specified in § 152.022(C), a development plan shall be submitted for land proposed to be zoned into the SU District. Such development plan shall include all the information and material required pursuant to § 152.040(B)(7). In making its recommendation to the Village Commission on the proposed placement of land into the SU District, the Planning and Zoning Board may propose modification to the development plan as submitted. The construction of all buildings and development of the site within the SU District shall be in conformity and compliance with the development plan as approved by the Planning and Zoning Board.
(F) Action by Village Commission. In approving the redistricting of land into the SU District, the Village Commission may specify appropriate conditions and safeguards applying to the specific proposed facility.
(Ord. 97-5, passed 8-4-1997; Ord. 2008-6, passed 8-19-2008; Ord. 2023-6, passed 5-2-2023)