Deer Park, Illinois Commercial Real Estate

Deer Park's only business district: professional office, retail and service businesses offering a wide range of goods and services on sites that front or have access to heavily traveled major arterial roads. Every PD parcel must be at least 5 acres and approved as a planned development, business must stay inside enclosed buildings, and buildings generally top out at 45 feet or four stories. (§§ 158.30 and 158.31.)

Permitted by right: Additional retail commercial uses similar in character to those listed above, provided that they are not activities which are characterized by rapid turnover of a high volume of customers and vehicular traffic, Antique shops, Art supply stores including picture framing conducted on the premises for retail trade, Athletic and health clubs, Bakeries, where all goods are sold on the premises at retail, Banks and financial institutions (including drive-in facilities), Barber shops and beauty parlors, Bicycle sales, rental and repairs, Book or stationery stores, Bowling alleys, billiard parlors, miniature golf links, swimming pools, tennis courts, and other like facilities, Business, music, dance or commercial schools, Camera and photographic supply stores, Carpet, rug and tile stores, Catering establishments, Department, furniture and home appliance stores, Drapery and fabric stores, Dressmaking establishments, Drug stores, Dry cleaners employing facilities for not more than 1,000 pounds of dry goods per day and using carbon tetrachloride or other non-inflammable cleaning agents, Electrical appliance shops and repair, Employment agencies, Florist shops and greenhouses for retail trade only, Food stores and supermarkets, Furrier shop, Garden supply and seed stores, Gift shops, Hardware store, Hobby and handicraft shops, Interior decorating shops, Jewelry stores, including watch repair, Leather goods and luggage stores, Meat markets or poultry stores, if no slaughter or stripping is involved; delicatessens and specialty food stores, Medical and dental clinics, Music stores, including sheet music and phonograph record sales and instrument sales and repairs, Optician and optical goods stores, Paint and wallpaper stores, Pet shop when conducted wholly within an enclosed building, Photographers or artists’ studios, including development and printing of photographs, when conducted on the premises as part of the retail business, Professional or service offices, Radio broadcasting station, Rental agencies, Restaurants, but not including drive-through, Retail stores and services, Shoe repair shops, Single family detached dwellings and attached multi-family dwellings but only as part of a mixed use planned development — no residential uses within the TIF District, Sporting goods stores, Tailor and dressmaking shops, Temporary building incidental only to construction of a permitted use, Tobacco shops, Toy stores, Travel bureaus, Uses customarily incidental to any of the above uses and accessory buildings when located on the same lot — all business must be conducted wholly within a completely enclosed building, except parking and off-street areas, Wholesale establishments excluding any building for which the principal use is storage warehousing

Special use approval required: Adult-use cannabis dispensing organizations — only inside the area bounded by Rand Road, Lake Cook Road, Plum Grove Road and Field Parkway (§ 158.38(A)); no drive-through, Animal Boarding, Animal Hospital or Veterinarian Clinic, Antennas towers and Wind Turbine, Auditoriums, Automobile sales and service shops conducted wholly within a completely enclosed building as one integrated business operation, including but not limited to automobile painting, upholstering, rebuilding, or body and fender work — junk vehicles stored no more than one month, behind a 10-foot solid fence; Sec. 158.26(B) also bars storing inoperable or unregistered vehicles outside a garage or building for any period of time, and the code says the more restrictive rule governs (Sec. 158.04(B)); confirm with the Village, Automobile washing facilities, rollover or conveyor — only within 300 feet of a regional arterial and local arterial road intersection, on at least 60,000 square feet with 150-250 feet of frontage, one building of at least 1,250 square feet (§ 158.30(B)(22)(e)), Business parks, comprised of offices, laboratories, showrooms or warehousing and related uses for wholesale and service businesses — all activity enclosed, no outside storage, loading docks at the rear and screened, low-glare lighting, Church/Places of Worship, Convenience food stores — only within 300 feet of a regional arterial and local arterial road intersection, on at least 60,000 square feet with 150-250 feet of frontage, one building of at least 1,250 square feet (§ 158.30(B)(22)(e)), Country clubs, EV Charging Station Establishment — only within 300 feet of a regional arterial and local arterial road intersection, on at least 60,000 square feet with 150-250 feet of frontage, one building of at least 1,250 square feet (§ 158.30(B)(22)(e)), Fueling / Gas Station Establishment — only within 300 feet of a regional arterial and local arterial road intersection, on at least 60,000 square feet with 150-250 feet of frontage, one building of at least 1,250 square feet (§ 158.30(B)(22)(e)), Golf courses, Hotel or motel, including dining and meeting rooms — lot of at least 1,500 square feet per lodging room or 120,000 square feet, whichever is greater, Museums, Public uses, including fire station, police station, school, vehicle garages and other governmental uses, Restaurants with drive-through — only within 300 feet of a regional arterial and local arterial road intersection, on at least 60,000 square feet with 150-250 feet of frontage, one building of at least 1,250 square feet (§ 158.30(B)(22)(e)); three stacking spaces per window, Standalone drive thru Automated teller machines (ATMs) — three stacking spaces per window, Taverns, music/night clubs as part of a mixed use planned development, Theaters (in-door only)

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