Chapter 17.09
INDUSTRIAL DISTRICTS
Sections:
Article I. General Requirements
17.09.060 Off-street parking and loading.
Article II. District Requirements
17.09.200 I-1 restricted industrial district.
17.09.210 I-2 general industrial district.
Article I. General Requirements
17.09.010 Permitted uses.
Permitted uses of land or buildings, as hereinafter listed, shall be permitted in the districts indicated under the conditions specified. No building or zoning lot shall be devoted to any use other than a use permitted hereinafter in the zoning district in which such building or zoning lot shall be located, with the exception of the following:
A. Uses lawfully established on the effective date of this title.
B. Conditional uses allowed in accordance with the provisions of RMC 17.09.020.
Uses already established on the effective date of this title and rendered nonconforming by the provisions thereof shall be subject to the regulations of Chapter 17.05 RMC (Nonconforming Buildings, Structures, and Uses)
No activities involving the storage, utilization, or manufacture of materials or products which decompose by detonation shall be permitted, unless specifically licensed by the village. (1980 Zoning Code § 9, Part A 1)
17.09.020 Conditional uses.
Conditional uses, as hereinafter listed, may be allowed in the zoning districts indicated, subject to the issuance of the conditional use permits in accordance with the provisions of RMC 17.03.110. (1980 Zoning Code § 9, Part A 2)
17.09.030 Yard requirements.
Yards shall be provided in accordance with the regulations hereinafter indicated under each zoning district. Yards shall be unobstructed from ground level to the sky, except as allowed in RMC 17.04.070(E). All accessory buildings which are attached to principal buildings shall comply with the yard requirements of the principal building. (1980 Zoning Code § 9, Part A 3)
17.09.040 Building height.
The requirements established under each zoning district in Article II of this chapter shall determine the maximum building height allowable for the buildings. (1980 Zoning Code § 9, Part A 4)
17.09.050 Signs.
Signs shall be allowed in industrial districts in accordance with the regulations established in Chapter 17.10 RMC. (1980 Zoning Code § 9, Part A 5)
17.09.060 Off-street parking and loading.
Off-street parking and loading facilities, accessory to uses allowed in the industrial districts, shall be provided in accordance with the regulations established in Chapter 17.11 RMC. (1980 Zoning Code § 9, Part A 6)
Article II. District Requirements
17.09.200 I-1 restricted industrial district.
The I-1 restricted industrial district is intended to provide an environment suitable for industrial activities that do not create appreciable nuisances or hazards, or that require a pleasant hazard-and-nuisance-free environment.
A. Uses allowed in the I-1 district are subject to the following conditions:
1. Dwelling units and lodging rooms, other than watchmen’s quarters, are not permitted.
2. All business, servicing, or processing, except for off-street parking and off-street loading, shall be conducted within completely enclosed buildings, unless otherwise indicated hereinafter.
3. All storage, except for motor vehicles in operable condition, shall be within completely enclosed buildings or effectively screened by a solid wall or fence (including solid entrance and exit gates) not less than eight feet nor more than twelve feet in height. No stored materials shall be visible above the fence.
B. Permitted Uses. The following uses are permitted in the I-1 district:
1. Bakeries.
2. Repealed by Ord. 2014-31.
3. Bedding manufacturing.
4. Boot and shoe manufacturing.
5. Carpet manufacturing.
6. Chartered financial institutions.
7. Cloth products manufacturing.
8. Contractors’, architects’, and engineers’ offices and shops.
9. Electronic and scientific precision instruments manufacturing.
10. Fur processing.
11. Laboratories – research and testing.
12. Laundries.
13. Light machinery production – appliances, business machines, etc.
14. Lithographing.
15. Living quarters for watchmen and their families, located on the premises where they are employed in such capacity.
16. Mail order houses.
17. Medical and dental clinics.
18. Musical instruments manufacture.
19. Offices, headquarters.
20. Orthopedic and medical appliance manufacture.
21. Parking lots, other than accessory, and subject to the provisions of Chapter 17.11 RMC.
22. Pottery and ceramics manufacture.
23. Printing and publishing establishments.
24. Public utility and service uses.
25. Rope, cord, and twine manufacture.
26. Sporting goods manufacture.
27. Trade schools.
28. Warehousing, storage and distribution facilities.
29. Wearing apparel manufacture.
30. Accessory uses, incidental to and on the same lot as the principal use.
C. Conditional Uses. The following conditional uses may be allowed in the I-1 district, subject to the provisions of RMC 17.03.110:
1. Building material sales and storage.
2. Cartage and express facilities.
3. Contractors’, architects’, and engineers’ equipment and material storage yards.
4. Cosmetics production.
5. Dairy products processing or manufacture.
6. Food manufacture, packaging and processing.
7. Fuel sales.
8. Glass products production.
9. Industrial arts vocational training center.
10. Paper products manufacture.
11. Parks and playgrounds.
12. Planned developments, industrial.
13. Recreation buildings or community centers.
14. Repair, rental or servicing of manufacturing and/or contractors’ equipment and materials.
15. Restaurants.
16. Soap manufacture.
17. Stadiums, auditoriums, and arenas – open or enclosed.
18. Woodworking and wood products manufacture.
19. Other manufacturing, processing, storage, or commercial uses determined by the plan commission to be of the same general character as the uses permitted in subsection B of this section, and found not to be obnoxious, unhealthful, or offensive by reason of the potential emission or transmission of noise, vibration, smoke, dust, odors, toxic or noxious matter or glare or heat.
20. Accessory uses, incidental to and on the same zoning lot as the principal use.
21. Truck parking area or yard.
22. Truck rental.
23. Truck repair.
24. Truck sales.
D. Lot Requirements. None, except for industrial planned developments which shall provide at least five acres of lot area.
E. Yard Requirements.
1. Front Yard. In the I-1 district, there shall be provided a front yard of not less than thirty feet in depth along every front lot line.
2. Interior Side Yards. In the I-1 district, there shall be provided an interior side yard of not less than fifteen feet in depth along each interior side lot line.
3. Corner Side Yard. In the I-1 district, there shall be provided a side yard of not less than thirty feet in depth in every instance where the side property line is adjacent to a public street.
4. Rear Yard. In the I-1 district, there shall be provided a rear yard of not less than fifteen feet in depth along each rear lot line, except where the rear lot line coincides with a railroad right-of-way line, in which case the rear yard may be reduced to three feet.
5. Transitional Yards. Where a side or rear lot line in the I-1 district coincides with a side or rear lot line in an adjacent residence or business district, a yard shall be provided along such side or rear lot line not less than forty-five feet in depth and shall contain landscaping and planting so designed and/or planted as to be twenty-five percent or more opaque when viewed horizontally between two feet and eight feet above average ground level.
Where industrial lots front on a street that constitutes the boundary line between industrial and residence districts or between industrial and business districts, all such lots shall provide a front yard of not less than forty-five feet in depth. Parking shall not be allowed in such transitional front yard.
F. Building Height Limitations. In the I-1 district, no building or structure height shall exceed three stories or forty-five feet, unless specifically authorized by conditional use permit. (Ord. 2023-16 § 3, 2023; Ord. 2014-31 §§ 6, 7, 2014; Ord. 93-3, 1993; 1980 Zoning Code § 9, Part B 9.1)
17.09.210 I-2 general industrial district.
The I-2 general industrial district is intended to accommodate those industrial activities which may produce moderate nuisances or hazards in areas that are relatively remote from residential and commercial development.
A. Uses allowed in the I-2 district are subject to the following conditions:
1. Dwelling units and lodging rooms, other than watchmen’s quarters, are not permitted.
2. All business, servicing, or processing within three hundred feet of a residence or business district shall be conducted within completely enclosed buildings.
3. All storage within three hundred feet of a residence district, except of motor vehicles in operable condition, shall be within completely enclosed buildings or effectively screened by a solid wall or fence (including solid entrance and exit gates) not less than six feet nor more than eight feet in height.
B. Permitted Uses. The following uses are permitted in the I-2 district:
1. Any use permitted in the I-1 district.
2. Bottling companies.
3. Building materials sales and storage.
4. Contractors’, architects’, and engineers’ equipment and material storage yards.
5. Cosmetics production.
6. Dairy products production.
7. Electroplating.
8. Glass products production.
9. Heavy machinery production.
10. Leather tanning or processing.
11. Linoleum manufacturing.
12. Machine shop.
13. Meat packing.
14. Metal reduction and refinement.
15. Nonchartered financial institutions.
16. Paper products manufacture.
17. Pawnbroker.
18. Plastics manufacture.
19. Precious metal dealers.
20. Soap manufacture.
21. Stone products manufacture.
22. Woodworking and wood products.
C. Conditional Uses. The following conditional uses may be allowed in the I-2 district, subject to the provisions of RMC 17.03.110:
1. Abrasives manufacture.
2. Any use allowed as a conditional use in the I-1 district unless already permitted in subsection B of this section.
3. Asphalt products manufacture.
4. Automobile service stations.
5. Brick and structural clay products manufacture.
6. Car wash.
7. Chemical processing and manufacturing.
8. Concrete mixing plants.
9. Feed mills.
10. Food manufacture, packing and processing.
11. Food, plastic, ferrous metal or similar products, as part of an approved recycling operation, and as may be further regulated by the Illinois Environmental Pollution Agency.
12. Foundries and forge plants.
13. Garages for storage, repair, and servicing of motor vehicles, including body repair, painting, and engine rebuilding.
14. Grain storage and processing.
15. Graphite products manufacture.
16. Gypsum manufacture,
17. Insulating materials manufacture.
18. Metal stamping.
19. Paint products manufacture.
20. Petroleum products storage or processing.
21. Rubber processing or manufacture.
22. Solid waste transfer station, as may be further regulated by the Illinois Environmental Pollution Agency.
23. Steel manufacture.
24. Other manufacturing, processing, or storage uses determined by the plan commission to be of the same general character as the uses permitted in subsection B of this section, and found not to be obnoxious, unhealthful, or offensive by reason of the potential emission or transmission of noise, vibration, smoke, dust, fire and explosive hazards, odors, toxic or noxious matter, or glare or heat.
25. Accessory uses, incidental to and on the same zoning lot as a principal use.
D. Lot Requirements. None, except for industrial planned developments which shall provide at least five acres of lot area.
E. Yard Requirements.
1. Front Yard. In the I-2 district, there shall be provided a front yard of not less than ten feet in depth along every front lot line.
2. Interior Side Yards. In the I-2 district, there shall be no interior side yard requirement.
3. Corner Side Yard. In the I-2 district, there shall be provided a side yard of not less than ten feet in depth in every instance where the side property line is adjacent to a public street.
4. Rear Yard. In the I-2 district, there shall be provided a rear yard of not less than five feet in depth along each rear lot line, except where the rear lot line coincides with a railroad right-of-way line, in which case the rear yard may be reduced to three feet.
5. Transitional Yards. Same as required in the I-1 district.
F. Building Height Limitations. In the I-2 district, no building or structure height shall exceed five stories or sixty feet, unless specifically authorized by conditional use permit. (Ord. 2014-31 § 8, 2014; Ord. 2015-26 § 4, 2015; Ord. 97-16, 1997; Ord. 94-12, 1994; 1980 Zoning Code § 9, Part B 9.2)
17.09.220 Truck-related uses.
The use of any zoning lot for a truck-related purpose shall comply with the following conditions:
A. Inoperable trucks and other vehicles may not be stored on the premises.
B. All lots shall be screened from view by a one hundred percent opaque fence or wall measuring no less than six feet.
C. The sale of trucks, tractors, truck-trailers, industrial, or commercial vehicles is not permitted in any zoning district without a conditional use permit.
D. An uninterrupted drive aisle measuring at least twenty feet in width shall be provided and maintained through the premises to allow emergency vehicle access.
E. Only pole lighting of a height and intensity approved by the village is allowed. Temporary lighting, including, without limitation, string lighting, is prohibited.
F. Outdoor vehicle repair and service is prohibited.
G. Outdoor storage of parts and equipment, including, without limitation, tires, is prohibited.
H. Any property used for truck storage, including freight terminals, shall be paved. Paving may include the use of reclaimed asphalt pavement (RAP).
I. Semi-trailers and other similar vehicles may not be used as temporary storage facilities unless associated with a freight terminal. All such vehicles shall remain operable and licensed during the time they remain on the property. (Ord. 2023-16 § 4, 2023)