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High-density apartments mixed with compatible offices, in locations right next to the city's largest concentrations of commercial, transportation and cultural facilities; retail, industrial and similar uses are not intended. (Sec. 150.401(L) and Sec. 150.490.)

Permitted by right: Accounting, Auditing, & Bookkeeping Services, Acupuncture Services, Advertising Agency Offices, Business & Management Consulting Service Offices, Business Association Offices, Chiropractor's Offices, Collection Service Offices, Commodity Broker, Dealer, & Exchange Offices (including Wholesale), Community Residential Alternative, Consumer Protection Organization Offices, Credit Reporting Service Offices, Credit Union Offices, Day Care Homes, Dental Laboratories, Dental Offices, Detective & Protective Service Offices, Direct Mail Advertising Service Offices, Elementary & High Schools, Public, Private & Parochial including Kindergartens, Employment Agency Offices, Executive Offices, public; Judicial Quarters, public, Legislative Quarters, public; Offices of Federal, State, County or Local Governments, Financial Counseling Service Offices, General Business Offices, Holding & Investment Service Offices, Income Tax Services, Institutions for Special Education, Insurance Carriers, Agents, Brokers, & Service Offices, Interior Decorating Service Offices, Labor Union & Similar Labor Organization Offices, Loan Company Offices, Massage Therapy Clinic, Medical Clinics/Surgical Centers, Medical Laboratories, Medical Offices, Multiple Family Dwellings, News Syndication Services, Newspaper Offices, Off-Street Parking Lot, Freestanding, Office of Institution of Religious, Charitable, or Philanthropic Nature, Offices for the Fitting & Repair of Hearing Aids, Prosthetic Appliances & the like, Optometrist's & Ophthalmologist's Offices, Parks & Playgrounds, Pharmacies, Professional Membership Organization Offices, Professional Offices including Architect, Attorney, Engineer, Landscape Architect, Urban Planner, Psychiatrist's & Psychologist's Offices, Publishing Offices, Radio & Television Broadcasting Station, Real Estate Broker, Salesperson, & Service Offices, Rectories, Security Broker, Dealer, & Exchange Offices, Single Family Dwellings, Stenographic & Other Temporary Office Employment Service Offices, Telephone Business Offices, Temporary City-owned Emergency Services (Police and Fire) Buildings, Structures, and Uses, Title Abstracting Company Offices, Window Cleaning Service Offices

Special use approval required: Cellular Telephone Facilities without Towers for Use with Radio and/or Other Transmitting and Receiving Equipment, Including Cellular Telephone and Personal Wireless Communications Facilities — Including Antennas to a Maximum Height of 12 Feet without Towers but Excluding Satellite Dishes, Child Care Facility, Civic, Social, & Fraternal Association Meeting Places, Club or Lodge, private, Colleges, Junior Colleges & Universities, Drive-Through Facilities, as an accessory to any use in the table — special use permit as a conditional use, or as part of a Planned Development where Sec. 150.505 applies (Sec. 150.403(B)), Electrical Receiving or Transforming Stations, Garage, public, Health Clubs (Minor), Houses of Worship, Nursing Home Care Facility (including Skilled Nursing Facility, Intermediate Care Facility, Licensed Intermediate Care Facility, and/or Sheltered Care Facility), Outdoor Lights with Towers for Athletic Fields located on High School Campuses, at such maximum wattage and at such maximum height as may be specified by the City Council in the ordinance approving the special use permit, Outdoor Theaters, festival-drama, Radio and/or Television and/or Other Transmitting and Receiving Equipment, Including Cellular Telephone and Personal Wireless Communications Facilities with Towers or Poles, but excluding Public Safety Telecommunications Facilities, Telephone Relay Facilities, Tennis, Racquetball, Handball, Swimming & Other Private Recreational Clubs, Utility Substations

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Small groups of shops, personal services and general offices serving the frequent needs of nearby residents, with the option of moderate-density apartments above; not meant for major businesses drawing trade from outside the neighborhood. Buildings up to 35 feet. (Sec. 150.401(M), Sec. 150.705 and Sec. 150.490.)

Permitted by right: Acupuncture Services, Antique Shops, Art & School Supply Stores, Art Shops, Automatic Teller Machine, Bakeries & Confectioneries, Retail, Barber Shops, Beauty Shops, Bicycle & Accessories Sales & Service, Book Stores, Camera & Photographic Supply Stores, China, Glassware, & Metalware Stores, Chiropractor's Offices (<3,000 sq. ft.), Clothing Stores, Coin & Stamp Stores, Computer Equipment Sales & Service, Convenience Food Mart, Craft Supply Stores, Delicatessens, Dental Offices (<3,000 sq. ft.), Domestic Pet Day Care — no business outdoors (other than parking or loading), and none in a building with upper-story residential uses, without a special use permit (table note *), Domestic Pet Grooming Services, Drapery, Curtain & Window Covering Stores, Drug Stores, Dry Goods Stores, Dwellings Only Above First Floor Permitted Commercial or Office Uses, Electrical Appliance Shops, Elementary & High Schools, Public, Private & Parochial including Kindergartens, Express Mailing Services, Fabrics & Sewing Accessory Stores, Floor Covering Stores, Florist Shops, retail, Frozen Dessert Stores, Fruit & Vegetable Stores, Furriers & Fur Apparel Stores, Garden Supply Shops, General Business Offices, Gift, Novelty, & Souvenir Stores, Grocery Stores, with or without meat, Hardware Stores, Hobby Shops, Home Decorating Sales & Service, Home Health Care Provider's Offices, Institutions for Special Education, Jewelry Stores, Key & Lock Shops, Laundry & Dry Cleaning Establishments, drop-off & pick-up stations only, Laundry & Dry Cleaning Establishments, with only coin-operated & self-service facilities, Leather Shops, Massage Therapy Clinic, Meat, Fish & Seafood Shops, Medical Offices (<3,000 sq. ft.), Newspaper & Magazine Stands, Off-Street Parking Lot, Freestanding, Offices for the Fitting & Repair of Hearing Aids, Prosthetic Appliances & the like, Optical Goods Store, Optometrists & Ophthalmologist's Offices (<3,000 sq. ft.), Paint & Wallcovering Stores, Parks & Playgrounds, Pharmacies, Photographic Studios, Printing Shops, hand press, off-set press, & photography only, Psychiatrist's & Psychologist's Offices (<3,000 sq. ft.), Public Safety Telecommunications Facilities, Record Shops, Resale Shops, Restaurants, Fast-food or Carry-out, Restaurants, excluding dancing & entertainment, Security Equipment Sales & Service, Shoe Repair Shops, Shoe Stores, Specialty Shops, Sporting Goods Stores, Stationery Stores, Tailoring & Dressmaking Stores, Tanning Salon, Temporary City-owned Emergency Services (Police and Fire) Buildings, Structures, and Uses, Ticket Sales Facility, Toy Stores, Travel Agencies, Video Sales and/or Rental Store, Weight Loss Clinics (Diet Centers)

Special use approval required: Adult Day Care, Cellular Telephone Facilities without Towers for Use with Radio and/or Other Transmitting and Receiving Equipment, Including Cellular Telephone and Personal Wireless Communications Facilities — Including Antennas to a Maximum Height of 12 Feet without Towers but Excluding Satellite Dishes, Child Care Facility, Chiropractor's Offices (>3,000 sq. ft.), Civic, Social, & Fraternal Association Meeting Places, Club or Lodge, private, Community Living Facility, Credit Union Offices — in B1 only in the specific B1 district bounded by Ridge Road, Deerfield Road and Richfield Avenue (table note *), Dancing or Music Academies, Dental Offices (>3,000 sq. ft.), Drive-Through Facilities, as an accessory to any use in the table — special use permit as a conditional use, or as part of a Planned Development where Sec. 150.505 applies (Sec. 150.403(B)), Electric Vehicle Charging System, Electrical Receiving or Transforming Stations, Funeral Homes, Mortuaries & Crematoria, Gasoline &/or Diesel Fuel Stations, Houses of Worship, Medical Offices (>3,000 sq. ft.), Optometrists & Ophthalmologist's Offices (>3,000 sq. ft.), Outdoor Lights with Towers for Athletic Fields located on High School Campuses, at such maximum wattage and at such maximum height as may be specified by the City Council in the ordinance approving the special use permit, Outdoor Theaters, festival-drama, Psychiatrist's & Psychologist's Offices (>3,000 sq. ft.), Radio and/or Television and/or Other Transmitting and Receiving Equipment, Including Cellular Telephone and Personal Wireless Communications Facilities with Towers or Poles, but excluding Public Safety Telecommunications Facilities, Recovery Services, Restaurants, Outdoor (NOT located within 175 feet of a parcel with ground floor residential use), Sports Training Schools, Telephone Relay Facilities, Tennis, Racquetball, Handball, Swimming & Other Private Recreational Clubs, Utility Substations

Read the Highland Park zoning code

Shops, personal services and offices serving nearby residents and supporting the adjacent Central Commercial District of the City of Highwood, with moderate-density apartments allowed above first-floor commercial uses. Buildings up to 35 feet. (Sec. 150.401(N), Sec. 150.705 and Sec. 150.490.)

Permitted by right: Accounting, Auditing, & Bookkeeping Services, Advertising Agency Offices, Antique Shops, Art & School Supply Stores, Art Shops, Bakeries & Confectioneries, Retail, Barber Shops, Beauty Shops, Bicycle & Accessories Sales & Service, Book Stores, Business & Management Consulting Service Offices, Camera & Photographic Supply Stores, China, Glassware, & Metalware Stores, Chiropractor's Offices, Clothing Stores, Coin & Stamp Stores, Credit Union Offices, Delicatessens, Dental Offices, Domestic Pet Day Care — no business outdoors (other than parking or loading), and none in a building with upper-story residential uses, without a special use permit (table note *), Domestic Pet Grooming Services, Drapery, Curtain & Window Covering Stores, Drug Stores, Dry Goods Stores, Dwellings Only Above First Floor Permitted Commercial or Office Uses, Electrical Appliance Shops, Fabrics & Sewing Accessory Stores, Financial Counseling Service Offices, Floor Covering Stores, Florist Shops, retail, Frozen Dessert Stores, Fruit & Vegetable Stores, Furniture Stores, Furriers & Fur Apparel Stores, Garden Supply Shops, Gift, Novelty, & Souvenir Stores, Grocery Stores, with or without meat, Hardware Stores, Health Clubs (Minor), Hobby Shops, Holding & Investment Service Offices, Home Decorating Sales & Service, Income Tax Services, Insurance Carriers, Agents, Brokers, & Service Offices, Interior Decorating Service Offices, Jewelry Stores, Key & Lock Shops, Laundry & Dry Cleaning Establishments, drop-off & pick-up stations only, Laundry & Dry Cleaning Establishments, with only coin-operated & self-service facilities, Leather Shops, Massage Therapy Clinic, Meat, Fish & Seafood Shops, Medical Offices, Money Transmitting Businesses, Nano-Brewery, -Distillery, -Meadery, and -Winery — no live music, entertainment or dancing without a special use permit; hours limits (Sec. 150.440), New or Used Motor Vehicle Sales Showroom, Indoor, Newspaper & Magazine Stands, Office Supply Stores, Offices for the Fitting & Repair of Hearing Aids, Prosthetic Appliances & the like, Optical Goods Store, Optometrist's & Ophthalmologist's Offices, Paint & Wallcovering Stores, Parks & Playgrounds, Pharmacies, Photographic Studios, Printing Shop including Blueprinting & Photocopying Shops With Retail Sales Component, Printing Shops, hand press, off-set press, & photography only, Professional Offices including Architect, Attorney, Engineer, Landscape Architect, Urban Planner, Psychiatrist's & Psychologist's Offices, Public Safety Telecommunications Facilities, Publishing Offices, Real Estate Broker, Salesperson, & Service Offices, Record Shops, Resale Shops, Restaurants, Fast-food or Carry-out, Restaurants, excluding dancing & entertainment, Shoe Repair Shops, Shoe Stores, Specialty Shops, Sporting Goods Stores, Stationery Stores, Tailoring & Dressmaking Stores, Temporary City-owned Emergency Services (Police and Fire) Buildings, Structures, and Uses, Title Abstracting Company Offices, Toy Stores, Travel Agencies, Upholstery Shops

Special use approval required: Cellular Telephone Facilities without Towers for Use with Radio and/or Other Transmitting and Receiving Equipment, Including Cellular Telephone and Personal Wireless Communications Facilities — Including Antennas to a Maximum Height of 12 Feet without Towers but Excluding Satellite Dishes, Civic, Social, & Fraternal Association Meeting Places, Drive-Through Facilities, as an accessory to any use in the table — special use permit as a conditional use, or as part of a Planned Development where Sec. 150.505 applies (Sec. 150.403(B)), Houses of Worship, Off-Street Parking Lot, Freestanding, Restaurants, Outdoor (NOT located within 175 feet of a parcel with ground floor residential use)

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Retail and service businesses in the commercial center of the former Village of Ravinia, now serving mainly the surrounding neighborhood. Buildings up to 35 feet. (Sec. 150.401(O), Sec. 150.705 and Sec. 150.490.)

Permitted by right: Accounting, Auditing, & Bookkeeping Services, Acupuncture Services, Advertising Agency Offices, Antique Shops, Art & School Supply Stores, Art Shops, Automatic Teller Machine, Bakeries & Confectioneries, Retail, Banks — facilities made conditional uses by the June 28, 2004 amendment stay lawful conditional uses but cannot expand without a conditional use permit (table note ~), Barber Shops, Beauty Shops, Bicycle & Accessories Sales & Service, Book Stores, Building Maintenance Service Offices, Business & Management Consulting Service Offices, Camera & Photographic Supply Stores, China, Glassware, & Metalware Stores, Chiropractor's Offices, Clothing Stores, Coin & Stamp Stores, Collection Service Offices, Commodity Broker, Dealer, & Exchange Offices (including Wholesale), Computer Equipment Sales & Service, Consumer Protection Organization Offices, Convenience Food Mart, Craft Supply Stores, Credit Reporting Service Offices, Credit Union Offices, Dancing or Music Academies, Delicatessens, Dental Laboratories, Dental Offices, Disinfecting & Exterminating Service Offices, Domestic Pet Grooming Services, Drapery, Curtain & Window Covering Stores, Driving Schools, Drug Stores, Dry Goods Stores, Dwellings Only Above First Floor Permitted Commercial or Office Uses, Electrical Appliance Shops, Elementary & High Schools, Public, Private & Parochial including Kindergartens, Employment Agency Offices, Express Mailing Services, Fabrics & Sewing Accessory Stores, Financial Counseling Service Offices, Floor Covering Stores, Florist Shops, retail, Frozen Dessert Stores, Fruit & Vegetable Stores, Furniture Stores, Furriers & Fur Apparel Stores, Garden Supply Shops, General Business Offices, Gift, Novelty, & Souvenir Stores, Glass Sales & Installation Facilities, Glass Sales & Installation Facilities with Retail Sales Component, Grocery Stores, with or without meat, Hardware Stores, Hobby Shops, Holding & Investment Service Offices, Home Decorating Sales & Service, Home Health Care Provider's Offices, Income Tax Services, Institutions for Special Education, Insurance Carriers, Agents, Brokers, & Service Offices, Interior Decorating Service Offices, Jewelry Stores, Key & Lock Shops, Kitchen & Bath Cabinet Showrooms, Laundry & Dry Cleaning Establishments, drop-off & pick-up stations only, Laundry & Dry Cleaning Establishments, except coin-operated & self-service - under 5000 sq. ft., Laundry & Dry Cleaning Establishments, with only coin-operated & self-service facilities, Leather Shops, Lighting & Electrical Equipment Store, Lighting & Electrical Equipment Store with Retail Sales Component, Liquor Stores, Loan Company Offices, Luggage & Suitcase Stores, Massage Therapy Clinic, Meat, Fish & Seafood Shops, Medical Appliances & Supply Stores, Medical Laboratories, Medical Offices, Musical Instrument Stores, Nano-Brewery, -Distillery, -Meadery, and -Winery — no live music, entertainment or dancing without a special use permit; hours limits (Sec. 150.440), Newspaper & Magazine Stands, Off-Street Parking Lot, Freestanding, Office Supply Stores, Offices for the Fitting & Repair of Hearing Aids, Prosthetic Appliances & the like, Optical Goods Store, Optometrist's & Ophthalmologist's Offices, Paint & Wallcovering Stores, Parks & Playgrounds, Pharmacies, Photographic Studios, Plumbing shop, Sales & Service with Retail Sales Component, Printing Shops, hand press, off-set press, & photography only, Professional Offices including Architect, Attorney, Engineer, Landscape Architect, Urban Planner, Psychiatrist's & Psychologist's Offices, Public Safety Telecommunications Facilities, Publishing Offices, Real Estate Broker, Salesperson, & Service Offices, Record Shops, Resale Shops, Research & Survey Firms, Restaurant, Brew Pubs, Restaurants, Fast-food or Carry-out, Restaurants, excluding dancing & entertainment, Security Broker, Dealer, & Exchange Offices, Security Equipment Sales & Service, Shoe Repair Shops, Shoe Stores, Specialty Shops, Sporting Goods Stores, Stationery Stores, Stenographic & Other Temporary Office Employment Service Offices, Studios for Art, Ceramics, Drama, Speech, and similar skills, Tailoring & Dressmaking Stores, Tanning Salon, Tasting Shops (Beer, Wine, and Spirits), Temporary City-owned Emergency Services (Police and Fire) Buildings, Structures, and Uses, Ticket Sales Facility, Title Abstracting Company Offices, Toy Stores, Travel Agencies, Tutoring Services, Upholstery Shops, Video Sales and/or Rental Store, Weight Loss Clinics (Diet Centers), Window Cleaning Service Offices

Special use approval required: Adult Day Care, Animal Clinics or Hospitals — no business outdoors (other than parking or loading), and none in a building with upper-story residential uses, without a special use permit (table note *), Cellular Telephone Facilities without Towers for Use with Radio and/or Other Transmitting and Receiving Equipment, Including Cellular Telephone and Personal Wireless Communications Facilities — Including Antennas to a Maximum Height of 12 Feet without Towers but Excluding Satellite Dishes, Child Care Facility, Civic, Social, & Fraternal Association Meeting Places, Club or Lodge, private, Community Living Facility, Domestic Pet Day Care — no business outdoors (other than parking or loading), and none in a building with upper-story residential uses, without a special use permit (table note *), Drive-Through Facilities, as an accessory to any use in the table — special use permit as a conditional use, or as part of a Planned Development where Sec. 150.505 applies (Sec. 150.403(B)), Electric Vehicle Charging System, Electrical Receiving or Transforming Stations, Funeral Homes, Mortuaries & Crematoria, Gasoline &/or Diesel Fuel Stations, Houses of Worship, Outdoor Lights with Towers for Athletic Fields located on High School Campuses, at such maximum wattage and at such maximum height as may be specified by the City Council in the ordinance approving the special use permit, Outdoor Theaters, festival-drama, Radio and/or Television and/or Other Transmitting and Receiving Equipment, Including Cellular Telephone and Personal Wireless Communications Facilities with Towers or Poles, but excluding Public Safety Telecommunications Facilities, Recovery Services, Restaurants, Outdoor (NOT located within 175 feet of a parcel with ground floor residential use), Restaurants, with dancing & entertainment, Retail Sales Uses Not Otherwise Regulated, Telephone Relay Facilities, Utility Maintenance Garages, Utility Substations

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Overlay on B2 lots fronting Roger Williams Avenue: first-floor space is reserved for retail or retail-oriented service uses to cluster shops and foot traffic, while non-retail services are encouraged upstairs. Buildings up to 35 feet. (Sec. 150.401(P), Sec. 150.705 and Sec. 150.490.)

Permitted by right: Antique Shops, Art & School Supply Stores, Art Shops, Automatic Teller Machine, Bakeries & Confectioneries, Retail, Banks — facilities made conditional uses by the June 28, 2004 amendment stay lawful conditional uses but cannot expand without a conditional use permit (table note ~), Barber Shops, Beauty Shops, Bicycle & Accessories Sales & Service, Book Stores, Camera & Photographic Supply Stores, China, Glassware, & Metalware Stores, Clothing Stores, Coin & Stamp Stores, Computer Equipment Sales & Service, Convenience Food Mart, Craft Supply Stores, Delicatessens, Domestic Pet Grooming Services, Drapery, Curtain & Window Covering Stores, Drug Stores, Dry Goods Stores, Dwellings Only Above First Floor Permitted Commercial or Office Uses, Electrical Appliance Shops, Fabrics & Sewing Accessory Stores, Floor Covering Stores, Florist Shops, retail, Frozen Dessert Stores, Fruit & Vegetable Stores, Furniture Stores, Furriers & Fur Apparel Stores, Garden Supply Shops, Gift, Novelty, & Souvenir Stores, Glass Sales & Installation Facilities with Retail Sales Component, Grocery Stores, with or without meat, Hardware Stores, Hobby Shops, Home Decorating Sales & Service, Jewelry Stores, Key & Lock Shops, Kitchen & Bath Cabinet Showrooms, Laundry & Dry Cleaning Establishments, drop-off & pick-up stations only, Laundry & Dry Cleaning Establishments, except coin-operated & self-service - under 5000 sq. ft., Laundry & Dry Cleaning Establishments, with only coin-operated & self-service facilities, Leather Shops, Lighting & Electrical Equipment Store with Retail Sales Component, Liquor Stores, Luggage & Suitcase Stores, Massage Therapy Clinic, Meat, Fish & Seafood Shops, Musical Instrument Stores, Nano-Brewery, -Distillery, -Meadery, and -Winery — no live music, entertainment or dancing without a special use permit; hours limits (Sec. 150.440), Newspaper & Magazine Stands, Office Supply Stores, Optical Goods Store, Paint & Wallcovering Stores, Parks & Playgrounds, Performance Entertainment Venue, Pharmacies, Photographic Studios, Plumbing shop, Sales & Service with Retail Sales Component, Printing Shop including Blueprinting & Photocopying Shops, Printing Shops, hand press, off-set press, & photography only, Record Shops, Resale Shops, Restaurant, Brew Pubs, Restaurants, Fast-food or Carry-out, Restaurants, Outdoor (NOT located within 175 feet of a parcel with ground floor residential use), Restaurants, excluding dancing & entertainment, Security Equipment Sales & Service, Shoe Repair Shops, Shoe Stores, Specialty Shops, Sporting Goods Stores, Stationery Stores, Studios for Art, Ceramics, Drama, Speech, and similar skills, Tailoring & Dressmaking Stores, Tanning Salon, Tasting Shops (Beer, Wine, and Spirits), Ticket Sales Facility, Toy Stores, Tutoring Services, Upholstery Shops, Video Sales and/or Rental Store

Special use approval required: Accounting, Auditing, & Bookkeeping Services, Acupuncture Services, Advertising Agency Offices, Animal Clinics or Hospitals — no business outdoors (other than parking or loading), and none in a building with upper-story residential uses, without a special use permit (table note *), Building Maintenance Service Offices, Business & Management Consulting Service Offices, Business Association Offices, Cellular Telephone Facilities without Towers for Use with Radio and/or Other Transmitting and Receiving Equipment, Including Cellular Telephone and Personal Wireless Communications Facilities — Including Antennas to a Maximum Height of 12 Feet without Towers but Excluding Satellite Dishes — added by Ord. O34-2026 (Sept. 14, 2026), Child Care Facility, Chiropractor's Offices, Civic, Social, & Fraternal Association Meeting Places, Club or Lodge, private, Collection Service Offices, Commodity Broker, Dealer, & Exchange Offices (including Wholesale), Consumer Protection Organization Offices, Credit Reporting Service Offices, Credit Union Offices, Cultural, Recreational, and Entertainment Uses Not Otherwise Regulated, Dancing or Music Academies, Dental Laboratories, Dental Offices, Department Stores, Disinfecting & Exterminating Service Offices, Domestic Pet Day Care — no business outdoors (other than parking or loading), and none in a building with upper-story residential uses, without a special use permit (table note *), Drive-Through Facilities, as an accessory to any use in the table — special use permit as a conditional use, or as part of a Planned Development where Sec. 150.505 applies (Sec. 150.403(B)), Electric Vehicle Charging System, Employment Agency Offices, Express Mailing Services, Financial Counseling Service Offices, Garage, public, Gasoline &/or Diesel Fuel Stations, General Business Offices, Holding & Investment Service Offices, Home Health Care Provider's Offices, Houses of Worship, Income Tax Services, Insurance Carriers, Agents, Brokers, & Service Offices, Interior Decorating Service Offices, Loan Company Offices, Medical Appliances & Supply Stores, Medical Laboratories, Medical Offices, Newspaper Offices, Off-Street Parking Lot, Freestanding, Offices for the Fitting & Repair of Hearing Aids, Prosthetic Appliances & the like, Optometrist's & Ophthalmologist's Offices, Outdoor Theaters, festival-drama, Professional Membership Organization Offices, Professional Offices including Architect, Attorney, Engineer, Landscape Architect, Urban Planner, Psychiatrist's & Psychologist's Offices, Publishing Offices, Real Estate Broker, Salesperson, & Service Offices, Research & Survey Firms, Restaurants, Outdoor (located within 175 feet of a parcel with ground floor residential use), Restaurants, with dancing & entertainment, Retail Sales Uses Not Otherwise Regulated, Security Broker, Dealer, & Exchange Offices, Stenographic & Other Temporary Office Employment Service Offices, Title Abstracting Company Offices, Travel Agencies, Weight Loss Clinics (Diet Centers), Window Cleaning Service Offices

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Commercial uses on lots that front or have access to heavily traveled multi-lane major roads, including traveler-oriented businesses and uses that need large sites and do not rely on comparison or walk-in shopping. Buildings up to 45 feet. (Sec. 150.401(Q), Sec. 150.705 and Sec. 150.490.)

Permitted by right: Accounting, Auditing, & Bookkeeping Services, Acupuncture Services, Advertising Agency Offices, Animal Clinics or Hospitals — no business outdoors (other than parking or loading), and none in a building with upper-story residential uses, without a special use permit (table note *), Antique Shops, Art & School Supply Stores, Art Shops, Automatic Teller Machine, Bakeries & Confectioneries, Retail, Banks — facilities made conditional uses by the June 28, 2004 amendment stay lawful conditional uses but cannot expand without a conditional use permit (table note ~), Barber & Beauty Schools, Barber Shops, Beauty Shops, Bicycle & Accessories Sales & Service, Book Stores, Bowling Alleys, Building Maintenance Service Offices, Bus Terminals, Business & Management Consulting Service Offices, Business & Technical Schools, Business Association Offices, Camera & Photographic Supply Stores, Catering Service Facilities, China, Glassware, & Metalware Stores, Chiropractor's Offices, Civic, Social, & Fraternal Association Meeting Places, Clothing Stores, Coin & Stamp Stores, Collection Service Offices, Commodity Broker, Dealer, & Exchange Offices (including Wholesale), Computer Equipment Sales & Service, Consumer Protection Organization Offices, Convenience Food Mart, Craft Supply Stores, Credit Reporting Service Offices, Credit Union Offices, Dancing or Music Academies, Delicatessens, Dental Laboratories, Dental Offices, Department Stores, Detective & Protective Service Offices, Direct Mail Advertising Service Offices, Direct Selling Organizations, Disinfecting & Exterminating Service Offices, Domestic Pet Day Care — no business outdoors (other than parking or loading), and none in a building with upper-story residential uses, without a special use permit (table note *), Domestic Pet Grooming Services, Drapery, Curtain & Window Covering Stores, Driving Schools, Drug Stores, Dry Goods Stores, Electrical Appliance Shops, Elementary & High Schools, Public, Private & Parochial including Kindergartens, Employment Agency Offices, Executive Offices, public; Judicial Quarters, public, Legislative Quarters, public; Offices of Federal, State, County or Local Governments, Express Mailing Services, Fabrics & Sewing Accessory Stores, Financial Counseling Service Offices, Floor Covering Stores, Florist Shops, retail, Florist Shops, wholesale, Frozen Dessert Stores, Fruit & Vegetable Stores, Furniture Stores, Furriers & Fur Apparel Stores, Garden Supply Shops, General Business Offices, General Construction Companies, Gift, Novelty, & Souvenir Stores, Glass Sales & Installation Facilities, Greenhouses, commercial, Grocery Stores, with or without meat, Hardware Stores, Health Clubs, Heating & Air Conditioning Equipment, Hobby Shops, Holding & Investment Service Offices, Home Decorating Sales & Service, Home Health Care Provider's Offices, Income Tax Services, Institutions for Special Education, Insurance Carriers, Agents, Brokers, & Service Offices, Interior Decorating Service Offices, Jewelry Stores, Kennels, Key & Lock Shops, Kitchen & Bath Cabinet Showrooms, Labor Union & Similar Labor Organization Offices, Landscape Contractors and Yard Maintenance Services, Laundry & Dry Cleaning Establishments, drop-off & pick-up stations only, Laundry & Dry Cleaning Establishments, except coin-operated & self-service - under 5000 sq. ft., Laundry & Dry Cleaning Establishments, with only coin-operated & self-service facilities, Leather Shops, Lighting & Electrical Equipment Store, Liquor Stores, Loan Company Offices, Luggage & Suitcase Stores, Lumber & Building Material Yard & Storage Facilities, Mail Order House, Marine Craft & Accessories Sales & Service Facilities, Masonry, Stonework & Tilesetting Shops, Massage Therapy Clinic, Meat, Fish & Seafood Shops, Medical Appliances & Supply Stores, Medical Clinics/Surgical Centers, Medical Laboratories, Medical Offices, Miniature Golf Courses, Motion Picture Film Distribution Offices, Motor Vehicle Detailing Shops, Motor Vehicle Engine Repair Shops, Motor Vehicle Glass Shops, Motor Vehicle Muffler Shops, Motor Vehicle Painting or Body Rebuilding Shops, Motor Vehicle Parts & Accessories Sales, Motor Vehicle Rental Agencies, Motor Vehicle Repair, Major, Motor Vehicle Repair, Minor, Motor Vehicle Salesrooms, Motor Vehicle Tire Sales & Installation Stores, Motor Vehicle Upholstery Shops, Motorcycle & Accessories Sales & Service Store, Movie & Drama Theaters, Musical Instrument Stores, Nano-Brewery, -Distillery, -Meadery, and -Winery — hours limits and food-menu rule; outdoor live music needs a special use permit (Sec. 150.440), News Syndication Services, Newspaper & Magazine Stands, Newspaper Distribution Services, Newspaper Offices, Nurseries, Off-Street Parking Lot, Freestanding, Office Supply Stores, Office of Institution of Religious, Charitable, or Philanthropic Nature, Offices for the Fitting & Repair of Hearing Aids, Prosthetic Appliances & the like, Optical Goods Store, Optometrist's & Ophthalmologist's Offices, Paint & Wallcovering Stores, Parks & Playgrounds, Performance Entertainment Venue, Personnel Training Centers, Pharmacies, Photographic Studios, Plumbing Shop, Sales & Service, Printing Shop including Blueprinting & Photocopying Shops, Printing Shops, hand press, off-set press, & photography only, Professional Membership Organization Offices, Professional Offices including Architect, Attorney, Engineer, Landscape Architect, Urban Planner, Psychiatrist's & Psychologist's Offices, Public Safety Telecommunications Facilities, Publishing Offices, Radio & Television Broadcasting Station, Real Estate Broker, Salesperson, & Service Offices, Record Shops, Recording Studios, Recreational & Sports Vehicle Sales & Service Facilities, Resale Shops, Research & Survey Firms, Restaurant, Brew Pubs, Restaurants, Fast-food or Carry-out, Restaurants, Outdoor (NOT located within 175 feet of a parcel with ground floor residential use), Restaurants, excluding dancing & entertainment, Restaurants, with dancing & entertainment, Rock & Stone Supply Yards, Security Broker, Dealer, & Exchange Offices, Security Equipment Sales & Service, Sheetmetal & Gutter Service Shop, Shoe Repair Shops, Shoe Stores, Specialty Shops, Sporting Goods Stores, Sports Training Schools, Stationery Stores, Stenographic & Other Temporary Office Employment Service Offices, Studios for Art, Ceramics, Drama, Speech, and similar skills, Swimming Pool Companies, Tailoring & Dressmaking Stores, Tanning Salon, Tasting Shops (Beer, Wine, and Spirits), Taxicab Office, Dispatching, Telephone Business Offices, Telephone Relay Facilities, Temporary City-owned Emergency Services (Police and Fire) Buildings, Structures, and Uses, Tennis, Racquetball, Handball, Swimming & Other Private Recreational Clubs, Ticket Sales Facility, Title Abstracting Company Offices, Tobacco and Smoking Shops (see Sec. 150.431) — only between the Union Pacific Railroad right-of-way (west) and U.S. Route 41 (east) (Sec. 150.431), Toy Stores, Travel Agencies, Tutoring Services, Upholstery Shops, Video Sales and/or Rental Store, Warehouse and Distribution Facilities, Enclosed, Weight Loss Clinics (Diet Centers), Wholesale Trade Offices & Storage Facilities, Window Cleaning Service Offices

Special use approval required: Adult Day Care, Cellular Telephone Facilities without Towers for Use with Radio and/or Other Transmitting and Receiving Equipment, Including Cellular Telephone and Personal Wireless Communications Facilities — Including Antennas to a Maximum Height of 12 Feet without Towers but Excluding Satellite Dishes, Child Care Facility, Club or Lodge, private, Colleges, Junior Colleges & Universities, Community Living Facility, Craft Brewery, Distillery, Winery, and Meadery, Cultural, Recreational, and Entertainment Uses Not Otherwise Regulated, Currency Exchange, Dinner Theaters, Drive-Through Facilities, as an accessory to any use in the table — special use permit as a conditional use, or as part of a Planned Development where Sec. 150.505 applies (Sec. 150.403(B)), Electric Vehicle Charging System, Electrical Receiving or Transforming Stations, Funeral Homes, Mortuaries & Crematoria, Garage, public, Gasoline &/or Diesel Fuel Stations, Gymnasiums, Heliports, Hotels and Motels, Houses of Worship, Medical Cannabis Dispensing Organization, Meeting & Events Venue, Motor Vehicle Washing Facility, New or Used Motor Vehicle Sales &/or Storage Lots, freestanding, Nursing Home Care Facility (including Skilled Nursing Facility, Intermediate Care Facility, Licensed Intermediate Care Facility, and/or Sheltered Care Facility), Open Storage Yards, Outdoor Lights with Towers for Athletic Fields located on High School Campuses, at such maximum wattage and at such maximum height as may be specified by the City Council in the ordinance approving the special use permit, Outdoor Theaters, festival-drama, Pet Shops, Radio and/or Television and/or Other Transmitting and Receiving Equipment, Including Cellular Telephone and Personal Wireless Communications Facilities with Towers or Poles, but excluding Public Safety Telecommunications Facilities, Recovery Services, Restaurants, Outdoor (located within 175 feet of a parcel with ground floor residential use), Retail Sales Uses Not Otherwise Regulated, Roller & Ice Skating Rinks, Taxicab Storage, Timeshare-Related Uses, Utility Substations, Utility Yards

Read the Highland Park zoning code

One of three B4 Commercial Service Districts (B4-4, B4-5, B4-6) next to downtown: goods and services for downtown businesses, their employees and visitors, apartments and mixed-use buildings, and car-oriented or single-purpose stores better placed on the major roads serving the Central Business District. Buildings up to 51 feet and 4 stories. (Sec. 150.401(R), Sec. 150.705 and Sec. 150.490.)

Permitted by right: Accounting, Auditing, & Bookkeeping Services, Acupuncture Services, Advertising Agency Offices, Animal Clinics or Hospitals — no business outdoors (other than parking or loading), and none in a building with upper-story residential uses, without a special use permit (table note *), Antique Shops, Art & School Supply Stores, Art Shops, Automatic Teller Machine, Bakeries & Confectioneries, Retail, Banks — facilities made conditional uses by the June 28, 2004 amendment stay lawful conditional uses but cannot expand without a conditional use permit (table note ~), Barber & Beauty Schools, Barber Shops, Beauty Shops, Bicycle & Accessories Sales & Service, Book Stores, Bowling Alleys, Building Maintenance Service Offices, Bus Terminals, Business & Management Consulting Service Offices, Business & Technical Schools, Business Association Offices, Camera & Photographic Supply Stores, Catering Service Facilities, China, Glassware, & Metalware Stores, Chiropractor's Offices, Civic, Social, & Fraternal Association Meeting Places, Clothing Stores, Coin & Stamp Stores, Collection Service Offices, Commodity Broker, Dealer, & Exchange Offices (including Wholesale), Community & Recreation Centers, Computer Equipment Sales & Service, Consumer Protection Organization Offices, Convenience Food Mart, Craft Supply Stores, Credit Reporting Service Offices, Credit Union Offices, Dancing or Music Academies, Delicatessens, Dental Laboratories, Dental Offices, Department Stores, Detective & Protective Service Offices, Direct Mail Advertising Service Offices, Direct Selling Organizations, Disinfecting & Exterminating Service Offices, Domestic Pet Day Care — no business outdoors (other than parking or loading), and none in a building with upper-story residential uses, without a special use permit (table note *), Domestic Pet Grooming Services, Drapery, Curtain & Window Covering Stores, Driving Schools, Drug Stores, Dry Goods Stores, Dwellings Only Above First Floor Permitted Commercial or Office Uses, Electrical Appliance Shops, Elementary & High Schools, Public, Private & Parochial including Kindergartens, Employment Agency Offices, Executive Offices, public; Judicial Quarters, public, Legislative Quarters, public; Offices of Federal, State, County or Local Governments, Express Mailing Services, Fabrics & Sewing Accessory Stores, Financial Counseling Service Offices, Floor Covering Stores, Florist Shops, retail, Florist Shops, wholesale, Frozen Dessert Stores, Fruit & Vegetable Stores, Furniture Stores, Furriers & Fur Apparel Stores, Garden Supply Shops, General Business Offices, Gift, Novelty, & Souvenir Stores, Grocery Stores, with or without meat, Hardware Stores, Health Clubs, Heating & Air Conditioning Equipment, Hobby Shops, Holding & Investment Service Offices, Home Decorating Sales & Service, Home Health Care Provider's Offices, Income Tax Services, Institutions for Special Education, Insurance Carriers, Agents, Brokers, & Service Offices, Interior Decorating Service Offices, Jewelry Stores, Key & Lock Shops, Kitchen & Bath Cabinet Showrooms, Labor Union & Similar Labor Organization Offices, Laundry & Dry Cleaning Establishments, drop-off & pick-up stations only, Laundry & Dry Cleaning Establishments, except coin-operated & self-service - under 5000 sq. ft., Laundry & Dry Cleaning Establishments, with only coin-operated & self-service facilities, Leather Shops, Lighting & Electrical Equipment Store, Liquor Stores, Loan Company Offices, Luggage & Suitcase Stores, Mail Order House, Massage Therapy Clinic, Meat, Fish & Seafood Shops, Medical Appliances & Supply Stores, Medical Clinics/Surgical Centers, Medical Laboratories, Medical Offices, Motion Picture Film Distribution Offices, Motor Vehicle Engine Repair Shops, Motor Vehicle Glass Shops, Motor Vehicle Muffler Shops, Motor Vehicle Painting or Body Rebuilding Shops, Motor Vehicle Parts & Accessories Sales, Motor Vehicle Rental Agencies, Motor Vehicle Repair, Major, Motor Vehicle Repair, Minor, Motor Vehicle Salesrooms, Motor Vehicle Tire Sales & Installation Stores, Motor Vehicle Upholstery Shops, Motorcycle & Accessories Sales & Service Store, Movie & Drama Theaters, Multiple Family Dwellings, Musical Instrument Stores, Nano-Brewery, -Distillery, -Meadery, and -Winery — hours limits and food-menu rule; outdoor live music needs a special use permit (Sec. 150.440), New or Used Motor Vehicle Sales Showroom, Indoor, News Syndication Services, Newspaper & Magazine Stands, Newspaper Offices, Off-Street Parking Lot, Freestanding, Office Supply Stores, Office of Institution of Religious, Charitable, or Philanthropic Nature, Offices for the Fitting & Repair of Hearing Aids, Prosthetic Appliances & the like, Optical Goods Store, Optometrist's & Ophthalmologist's Offices, Paint & Wallcovering Stores, Parks & Playgrounds, Performance Entertainment Venue, Personnel Training Centers, Pharmacies, Photographic Studios, Plumbing Shop, Sales & Service, Printing Shop including Blueprinting & Photocopying Shops, Printing Shops, hand press, off-set press, & photography only, Professional Membership Organization Offices, Professional Offices including Architect, Attorney, Engineer, Landscape Architect, Urban Planner, Psychiatrist's & Psychologist's Offices, Public Safety Telecommunications Facilities, Publishing Offices, Radio & Television Broadcasting Station, Real Estate Broker, Salesperson, & Service Offices, Record Shops, Recording Studios, Recreational & Sports Vehicle Sales & Service Facilities, Resale Shops, Research & Survey Firms, Restaurant, Brew Pubs, Restaurants, Fast-food or Carry-out, Restaurants, Outdoor (NOT located within 175 feet of a parcel with ground floor residential use), Restaurants, excluding dancing & entertainment, Restaurants, with dancing & entertainment, Security Broker, Dealer, & Exchange Offices, Security Equipment Sales & Service, Shoe Repair Shops, Shoe Stores, Specialty Shops, Sporting Goods Stores, Sports Training Schools, Stationery Stores, Stenographic & Other Temporary Office Employment Service Offices, Studios for Art, Ceramics, Drama, Speech, and similar skills, Tailoring & Dressmaking Stores, Tanning Salon, Tasting Shops (Beer, Wine, and Spirits), Taxicab Office, Dispatching, Telephone Business Offices, Telephone Relay Facilities, Temporary City-owned Emergency Services (Police and Fire) Buildings, Structures, and Uses, Tennis, Racquetball, Handball, Swimming & Other Private Recreational Clubs, Ticket Sales Facility, Title Abstracting Company Offices, Toy Stores, Travel Agencies, Tutoring Services, Upholstery Shops, Utility Maintenance Garages, Video Sales and/or Rental Store, Weight Loss Clinics (Diet Centers), Window Cleaning Service Offices

Special use approval required: Adult Day Care, Cellular Telephone Facilities without Towers for Use with Radio and/or Other Transmitting and Receiving Equipment, Including Cellular Telephone and Personal Wireless Communications Facilities — Including Antennas to a Maximum Height of 12 Feet without Towers but Excluding Satellite Dishes, Child Care Facility, Club or Lodge, private, Colleges, Junior Colleges & Universities, Community Living Facility, Convents, Monasteries or Seminaries, Cultural, Recreational, and Entertainment Uses Not Otherwise Regulated, Dinner Theaters, Drive-Through Facilities, as an accessory to any use in the table — special use permit as a conditional use, or as part of a Planned Development where Sec. 150.505 applies (Sec. 150.403(B)), Electric Vehicle Charging System, Electrical Receiving or Transforming Stations, Funeral Homes, Mortuaries & Crematoria, Garage, public, Gasoline &/or Diesel Fuel Stations, Gymnasiums, Heliports, Hotels and Motels, Houses of Worship, Meeting & Events Venue, Motor Vehicle Washing Facility, New or Used Motor Vehicle Sales &/or Storage Lots, freestanding, Outdoor Lights with Towers for Athletic Fields located on High School Campuses, at such maximum wattage and at such maximum height as may be specified by the City Council in the ordinance approving the special use permit, Outdoor Theaters, festival-drama, Pet Shops, Radio and/or Television and/or Other Transmitting and Receiving Equipment, Including Cellular Telephone and Personal Wireless Communications Facilities with Towers or Poles, but excluding Public Safety Telecommunications Facilities, Recovery Services, Restaurants, Outdoor (located within 175 feet of a parcel with ground floor residential use), Retail Sales Uses Not Otherwise Regulated, Roller & Ice Skating Rinks, Timeshare-Related Uses, Utility Substations

Read the Highland Park zoning code

One of three B4 Commercial Service Districts (B4-4, B4-5, B4-6) next to downtown: goods and services for downtown businesses, their employees and visitors, apartments and mixed-use buildings, and car-oriented or single-purpose stores better placed on the major roads serving the Central Business District. Buildings up to 63 feet and 5 stories in a Planned Development, otherwise 51 feet and 4 stories. (Sec. 150.401(R), Sec. 150.705 and Sec. 150.490.)

Permitted by right: Accounting, Auditing, & Bookkeeping Services, Acupuncture Services, Advertising Agency Offices, Animal Clinics or Hospitals — no business outdoors (other than parking or loading), and none in a building with upper-story residential uses, without a special use permit (table note *), Antique Shops, Art & School Supply Stores, Art Shops, Automatic Teller Machine, Bakeries & Confectioneries, Retail, Banks — facilities made conditional uses by the June 28, 2004 amendment stay lawful conditional uses but cannot expand without a conditional use permit (table note ~), Barber & Beauty Schools, Barber Shops, Beauty Shops, Bicycle & Accessories Sales & Service, Book Stores, Bowling Alleys, Building Maintenance Service Offices, Bus Terminals, Business & Management Consulting Service Offices, Business & Technical Schools, Business Association Offices, Camera & Photographic Supply Stores, Catering Service Facilities, China, Glassware, & Metalware Stores, Chiropractor's Offices, Civic, Social, & Fraternal Association Meeting Places, Clothing Stores, Coin & Stamp Stores, Collection Service Offices, Commodity Broker, Dealer, & Exchange Offices (including Wholesale), Community & Recreation Centers, Computer Equipment Sales & Service, Consumer Protection Organization Offices, Convenience Food Mart, Craft Supply Stores, Credit Reporting Service Offices, Credit Union Offices, Dancing or Music Academies, Delicatessens, Dental Laboratories, Dental Offices, Department Stores, Detective & Protective Service Offices, Direct Mail Advertising Service Offices, Direct Selling Organizations, Disinfecting & Exterminating Service Offices, Domestic Pet Day Care — no business outdoors (other than parking or loading), and none in a building with upper-story residential uses, without a special use permit (table note *), Domestic Pet Grooming Services, Drapery, Curtain & Window Covering Stores, Driving Schools, Drug Stores, Dry Goods Stores, Dwellings Only Above First Floor Permitted Commercial or Office Uses, Electrical Appliance Shops, Elementary & High Schools, Public, Private & Parochial including Kindergartens, Employment Agency Offices, Executive Offices, public; Judicial Quarters, public, Legislative Quarters, public; Offices of Federal, State, County or Local Governments, Express Mailing Services, Fabrics & Sewing Accessory Stores, Financial Counseling Service Offices, Floor Covering Stores, Florist Shops, retail, Florist Shops, wholesale, Frozen Dessert Stores, Fruit & Vegetable Stores, Furniture Stores, Furriers & Fur Apparel Stores, Garden Supply Shops, General Business Offices, Gift, Novelty, & Souvenir Stores, Grocery Stores, with or without meat, Hardware Stores, Health Clubs, Heating & Air Conditioning Equipment, Hobby Shops, Holding & Investment Service Offices, Home Decorating Sales & Service, Home Health Care Provider's Offices, Income Tax Services, Institutions for Special Education, Insurance Carriers, Agents, Brokers, & Service Offices, Interior Decorating Service Offices, Jewelry Stores, Key & Lock Shops, Kitchen & Bath Cabinet Showrooms, Labor Union & Similar Labor Organization Offices, Laundry & Dry Cleaning Establishments, drop-off & pick-up stations only, Laundry & Dry Cleaning Establishments, except coin-operated & self-service - under 5000 sq. ft., Laundry & Dry Cleaning Establishments, with only coin-operated & self-service facilities, Leather Shops, Lighting & Electrical Equipment Store, Liquor Stores, Loan Company Offices, Luggage & Suitcase Stores, Mail Order House, Massage Therapy Clinic, Meat, Fish & Seafood Shops, Medical Appliances & Supply Stores, Medical Clinics/Surgical Centers, Medical Laboratories, Medical Offices, Motion Picture Film Distribution Offices, Motor Vehicle Engine Repair Shops, Motor Vehicle Glass Shops, Motor Vehicle Muffler Shops, Motor Vehicle Painting or Body Rebuilding Shops, Motor Vehicle Parts & Accessories Sales, Motor Vehicle Rental Agencies, Motor Vehicle Repair, Major, Motor Vehicle Repair, Minor, Motor Vehicle Salesrooms, Motor Vehicle Tire Sales & Installation Stores, Motor Vehicle Upholstery Shops, Motorcycle & Accessories Sales & Service Store, Movie & Drama Theaters, Multiple Family Dwellings, Musical Instrument Stores, Nano-Brewery, -Distillery, -Meadery, and -Winery — hours limits and food-menu rule; outdoor live music needs a special use permit (Sec. 150.440), New or Used Motor Vehicle Sales Showroom, Indoor, News Syndication Services, Newspaper & Magazine Stands, Newspaper Offices, Off-Street Parking Lot, Freestanding, Office Supply Stores, Office of Institution of Religious, Charitable, or Philanthropic Nature, Offices for the Fitting & Repair of Hearing Aids, Prosthetic Appliances & the like, Optical Goods Store, Optometrist's & Ophthalmologist's Offices, Paint & Wallcovering Stores, Parks & Playgrounds, Performance Entertainment Venue, Personnel Training Centers, Pharmacies, Photographic Studios, Plumbing Shop, Sales & Service, Printing Shop including Blueprinting & Photocopying Shops, Printing Shops, hand press, off-set press, & photography only, Professional Membership Organization Offices, Professional Offices including Architect, Attorney, Engineer, Landscape Architect, Urban Planner, Psychiatrist's & Psychologist's Offices, Public Safety Telecommunications Facilities, Publishing Offices, Radio & Television Broadcasting Station, Real Estate Broker, Salesperson, & Service Offices, Record Shops, Recording Studios, Recreational & Sports Vehicle Sales & Service Facilities, Resale Shops, Research & Survey Firms, Restaurant, Brew Pubs, Restaurants, Fast-food or Carry-out, Restaurants, Outdoor (NOT located within 175 feet of a parcel with ground floor residential use), Restaurants, excluding dancing & entertainment, Restaurants, with dancing & entertainment, Security Broker, Dealer, & Exchange Offices, Security Equipment Sales & Service, Shoe Repair Shops, Shoe Stores, Specialty Shops, Sporting Goods Stores, Sports Training Schools, Stationery Stores, Stenographic & Other Temporary Office Employment Service Offices, Studios for Art, Ceramics, Drama, Speech, and similar skills, Tailoring & Dressmaking Stores, Tanning Salon, Tasting Shops (Beer, Wine, and Spirits), Taxicab Office, Dispatching, Telephone Business Offices, Telephone Relay Facilities, Temporary City-owned Emergency Services (Police and Fire) Buildings, Structures, and Uses, Tennis, Racquetball, Handball, Swimming & Other Private Recreational Clubs, Ticket Sales Facility, Title Abstracting Company Offices, Toy Stores, Travel Agencies, Tutoring Services, Upholstery Shops, Utility Maintenance Garages, Video Sales and/or Rental Store, Weight Loss Clinics (Diet Centers), Window Cleaning Service Offices

Special use approval required: Adult Day Care, Cellular Telephone Facilities without Towers for Use with Radio and/or Other Transmitting and Receiving Equipment, Including Cellular Telephone and Personal Wireless Communications Facilities — Including Antennas to a Maximum Height of 12 Feet without Towers but Excluding Satellite Dishes, Child Care Facility, Club or Lodge, private, Colleges, Junior Colleges & Universities, Community Living Facility, Convents, Monasteries or Seminaries, Cultural, Recreational, and Entertainment Uses Not Otherwise Regulated, Dinner Theaters, Drive-Through Facilities, as an accessory to any use in the table — special use permit as a conditional use, or as part of a Planned Development where Sec. 150.505 applies (Sec. 150.403(B)), Electric Vehicle Charging System, Electrical Receiving or Transforming Stations, Funeral Homes, Mortuaries & Crematoria, Garage, public, Gasoline &/or Diesel Fuel Stations, Gymnasiums, Heliports, Hotels and Motels, Houses of Worship, Meeting & Events Venue, Motor Vehicle Washing Facility, New or Used Motor Vehicle Sales &/or Storage Lots, freestanding, Outdoor Lights with Towers for Athletic Fields located on High School Campuses, at such maximum wattage and at such maximum height as may be specified by the City Council in the ordinance approving the special use permit, Outdoor Theaters, festival-drama, Pet Shops, Radio and/or Television and/or Other Transmitting and Receiving Equipment, Including Cellular Telephone and Personal Wireless Communications Facilities with Towers or Poles, but excluding Public Safety Telecommunications Facilities, Recovery Services, Restaurants, Outdoor (located within 175 feet of a parcel with ground floor residential use), Retail Sales Uses Not Otherwise Regulated, Roller & Ice Skating Rinks, Timeshare-Related Uses, Utility Substations

Read the Highland Park zoning code

One of three B4 Commercial Service Districts (B4-4, B4-5, B4-6) next to downtown: goods and services for downtown businesses, their employees and visitors, apartments and mixed-use buildings, and car-oriented or single-purpose stores better placed on the major roads serving the Central Business District. Buildings up to 75 feet and 6 stories in a Planned Development, otherwise 51 feet and 4 stories. (Sec. 150.401(R), Sec. 150.705 and Sec. 150.490.)

Permitted by right: Accounting, Auditing, & Bookkeeping Services, Acupuncture Services, Advertising Agency Offices, Animal Clinics or Hospitals — no business outdoors (other than parking or loading), and none in a building with upper-story residential uses, without a special use permit (table note *), Antique Shops, Art & School Supply Stores, Art Shops, Automatic Teller Machine, Bakeries & Confectioneries, Retail, Banks — facilities made conditional uses by the June 28, 2004 amendment stay lawful conditional uses but cannot expand without a conditional use permit (table note ~), Barber & Beauty Schools, Barber Shops, Beauty Shops, Bicycle & Accessories Sales & Service, Book Stores, Bowling Alleys, Building Maintenance Service Offices, Bus Terminals, Business & Management Consulting Service Offices, Business & Technical Schools, Business Association Offices, Camera & Photographic Supply Stores, Catering Service Facilities, China, Glassware, & Metalware Stores, Chiropractor's Offices, Civic, Social, & Fraternal Association Meeting Places, Clothing Stores, Coin & Stamp Stores, Collection Service Offices, Commodity Broker, Dealer, & Exchange Offices (including Wholesale), Community & Recreation Centers, Computer Equipment Sales & Service, Consumer Protection Organization Offices, Convenience Food Mart, Craft Supply Stores, Credit Reporting Service Offices, Credit Union Offices, Dancing or Music Academies, Delicatessens, Dental Laboratories, Dental Offices, Department Stores, Detective & Protective Service Offices, Direct Mail Advertising Service Offices, Direct Selling Organizations, Disinfecting & Exterminating Service Offices, Domestic Pet Day Care — no business outdoors (other than parking or loading), and none in a building with upper-story residential uses, without a special use permit (table note *), Domestic Pet Grooming Services, Drapery, Curtain & Window Covering Stores, Driving Schools, Drug Stores, Dry Goods Stores, Dwellings Only Above First Floor Permitted Commercial or Office Uses, Electrical Appliance Shops, Elementary & High Schools, Public, Private & Parochial including Kindergartens, Employment Agency Offices, Executive Offices, public; Judicial Quarters, public, Legislative Quarters, public; Offices of Federal, State, County or Local Governments, Express Mailing Services, Fabrics & Sewing Accessory Stores, Financial Counseling Service Offices, Floor Covering Stores, Florist Shops, retail, Florist Shops, wholesale, Frozen Dessert Stores, Fruit & Vegetable Stores, Furniture Stores, Furriers & Fur Apparel Stores, Garden Supply Shops, General Business Offices, Gift, Novelty, & Souvenir Stores, Grocery Stores, with or without meat, Hardware Stores, Health Clubs, Heating & Air Conditioning Equipment, Hobby Shops, Holding & Investment Service Offices, Home Decorating Sales & Service, Home Health Care Provider's Offices, Income Tax Services, Institutions for Special Education, Insurance Carriers, Agents, Brokers, & Service Offices, Interior Decorating Service Offices, Jewelry Stores, Key & Lock Shops, Kitchen & Bath Cabinet Showrooms, Labor Union & Similar Labor Organization Offices, Laundry & Dry Cleaning Establishments, drop-off & pick-up stations only, Laundry & Dry Cleaning Establishments, except coin-operated & self-service - under 5000 sq. ft., Laundry & Dry Cleaning Establishments, with only coin-operated & self-service facilities, Leather Shops, Lighting & Electrical Equipment Store, Liquor Stores, Loan Company Offices, Luggage & Suitcase Stores, Mail Order House, Massage Therapy Clinic, Meat, Fish & Seafood Shops, Medical Appliances & Supply Stores, Medical Clinics/Surgical Centers, Medical Laboratories, Medical Offices, Motion Picture Film Distribution Offices, Motor Vehicle Engine Repair Shops, Motor Vehicle Glass Shops, Motor Vehicle Muffler Shops, Motor Vehicle Painting or Body Rebuilding Shops, Motor Vehicle Parts & Accessories Sales, Motor Vehicle Rental Agencies, Motor Vehicle Repair, Major, Motor Vehicle Repair, Minor, Motor Vehicle Salesrooms, Motor Vehicle Tire Sales & Installation Stores, Motor Vehicle Upholstery Shops, Motorcycle & Accessories Sales & Service Store, Movie & Drama Theaters, Multiple Family Dwellings, Musical Instrument Stores, Nano-Brewery, -Distillery, -Meadery, and -Winery — hours limits and food-menu rule; outdoor live music needs a special use permit (Sec. 150.440), New or Used Motor Vehicle Sales Showroom, Indoor, News Syndication Services, Newspaper & Magazine Stands, Newspaper Offices, Off-Street Parking Lot, Freestanding, Office Supply Stores, Office of Institution of Religious, Charitable, or Philanthropic Nature, Offices for the Fitting & Repair of Hearing Aids, Prosthetic Appliances & the like, Optical Goods Store, Optometrist's & Ophthalmologist's Offices, Paint & Wallcovering Stores, Parks & Playgrounds, Performance Entertainment Venue, Personnel Training Centers, Pharmacies, Photographic Studios, Plumbing Shop, Sales & Service, Printing Shop including Blueprinting & Photocopying Shops, Printing Shops, hand press, off-set press, & photography only, Professional Membership Organization Offices, Professional Offices including Architect, Attorney, Engineer, Landscape Architect, Urban Planner, Psychiatrist's & Psychologist's Offices, Public Safety Telecommunications Facilities, Publishing Offices, Radio & Television Broadcasting Station, Real Estate Broker, Salesperson, & Service Offices, Record Shops, Recording Studios, Recreational & Sports Vehicle Sales & Service Facilities, Resale Shops, Research & Survey Firms, Restaurant, Brew Pubs, Restaurants, Fast-food or Carry-out, Restaurants, Outdoor (NOT located within 175 feet of a parcel with ground floor residential use), Restaurants, excluding dancing & entertainment, Restaurants, with dancing & entertainment, Security Broker, Dealer, & Exchange Offices, Security Equipment Sales & Service, Shoe Repair Shops, Shoe Stores, Specialty Shops, Sporting Goods Stores, Sports Training Schools, Stationery Stores, Stenographic & Other Temporary Office Employment Service Offices, Studios for Art, Ceramics, Drama, Speech, and similar skills, Tailoring & Dressmaking Stores, Tanning Salon, Tasting Shops (Beer, Wine, and Spirits), Taxicab Office, Dispatching, Telephone Business Offices, Telephone Relay Facilities, Tennis, Racquetball, Handball, Swimming & Other Private Recreational Clubs, Ticket Sales Facility, Title Abstracting Company Offices, Toy Stores, Travel Agencies, Tutoring Services, Upholstery Shops, Utility Maintenance Garages, Video Sales and/or Rental Store, Weight Loss Clinics (Diet Centers), Window Cleaning Service Offices

Special use approval required: Adult Day Care, Cellular Telephone Facilities without Towers for Use with Radio and/or Other Transmitting and Receiving Equipment, Including Cellular Telephone and Personal Wireless Communications Facilities — Including Antennas to a Maximum Height of 12 Feet without Towers but Excluding Satellite Dishes, Child Care Facility, Club or Lodge, private, Colleges, Junior Colleges & Universities, Community Living Facility, Convents, Monasteries or Seminaries, Cultural, Recreational, and Entertainment Uses Not Otherwise Regulated, Dinner Theaters, Drive-Through Facilities, as an accessory to any use in the table — special use permit as a conditional use, or as part of a Planned Development where Sec. 150.505 applies (Sec. 150.403(B)), Electric Vehicle Charging System, Electrical Receiving or Transforming Stations, Funeral Homes, Mortuaries & Crematoria, Garage, public, Gasoline &/or Diesel Fuel Stations, Gymnasiums, Heliports, Hotels and Motels, Houses of Worship, Meeting & Events Venue, Motor Vehicle Washing Facility, New or Used Motor Vehicle Sales &/or Storage Lots, freestanding, Outdoor Lights with Towers for Athletic Fields located on High School Campuses, at such maximum wattage and at such maximum height as may be specified by the City Council in the ordinance approving the special use permit, Outdoor Theaters, festival-drama, Pet Shops, Radio and/or Television and/or Other Transmitting and Receiving Equipment, Including Cellular Telephone and Personal Wireless Communications Facilities with Towers or Poles, but excluding Public Safety Telecommunications Facilities, Recovery Services, Restaurants, Outdoor (located within 175 feet of a parcel with ground floor residential use), Retail Sales Uses Not Otherwise Regulated, Roller & Ice Skating Rinks, Timeshare-Related Uses, Utility Substations

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The range of goods and services found in the Highway Commercial District, plus apartments and mixed-use buildings, for lots that front or have access to Deerfield Road; on mixed-use lots the first floor must be commercial, and a 25-foot landscaped setback is required along Deerfield Road (Sec. 150.713). Buildings up to 51 feet and 4 stories. (Sec. 150.401(S), Sec. 150.705 and Sec. 150.490.)

Permitted by right: Accounting, Auditing, & Bookkeeping Services, Acupuncture Services, Advertising Agency Offices, Animal Clinics or Hospitals — no business outdoors (other than parking or loading), and none in a building with upper-story residential uses, without a special use permit (table note *), Antique Shops, Art & School Supply Stores, Art Shops, Automatic Teller Machine, Bakeries & Confectioneries, Retail, Banks — facilities made conditional uses by the June 28, 2004 amendment stay lawful conditional uses but cannot expand without a conditional use permit (table note ~), Barber & Beauty Schools, Barber Shops, Beauty Shops, Bicycle & Accessories Sales & Service, Book Stores, Bowling Alleys, Building Maintenance Service Offices, Bus Terminals, Business & Management Consulting Service Offices, Business & Technical Schools, Business Association Offices, Camera & Photographic Supply Stores, Catering Service Facilities, China, Glassware, & Metalware Stores, Chiropractor's Offices, Civic, Social, & Fraternal Association Meeting Places, Clothing Stores, Coin & Stamp Stores, Collection Service Offices, Commodity Broker, Dealer, & Exchange Offices (including Wholesale), Community & Recreation Centers, Computer Equipment Sales & Service, Consumer Protection Organization Offices, Convenience Food Mart, Craft Supply Stores, Credit Reporting Service Offices, Credit Union Offices, Dancing or Music Academies, Delicatessens, Dental Laboratories, Dental Offices, Department Stores, Detective & Protective Service Offices, Direct Mail Advertising Service Offices, Direct Selling Organizations, Disinfecting & Exterminating Service Offices, Domestic Pet Day Care — no business outdoors (other than parking or loading), and none in a building with upper-story residential uses, without a special use permit (table note *), Domestic Pet Grooming Services, Drapery, Curtain & Window Covering Stores, Driving Schools, Drug Stores, Dry Goods Stores, Dwellings Only Above First Floor Permitted Commercial or Office Uses, Electrical Appliance Shops, Elementary & High Schools, Public, Private & Parochial including Kindergartens, Employment Agency Offices, Executive Offices, public; Judicial Quarters, public, Legislative Quarters, public; Offices of Federal, State, County or Local Governments, Express Mailing Services, Fabrics & Sewing Accessory Stores, Financial Counseling Service Offices, Floor Covering Stores, Florist Shops, retail, Florist Shops, wholesale, Frozen Dessert Stores, Fruit & Vegetable Stores, Furniture Stores, Furriers & Fur Apparel Stores, Garden Supply Shops, General Business Offices, Gift, Novelty, & Souvenir Stores, Grocery Stores, with or without meat, Hardware Stores, Health Clubs, Heating & Air Conditioning Equipment, Hobby Shops, Holding & Investment Service Offices, Home Decorating Sales & Service, Home Health Care Provider's Offices, Income Tax Services, Institutions for Special Education, Insurance Carriers, Agents, Brokers, & Service Offices, Interior Decorating Service Offices, Jewelry Stores, Key & Lock Shops, Kitchen & Bath Cabinet Showrooms, Labor Union & Similar Labor Organization Offices, Laundry & Dry Cleaning Establishments, drop-off & pick-up stations only, Laundry & Dry Cleaning Establishments, except coin-operated & self-service - under 5000 sq. ft., Laundry & Dry Cleaning Establishments, with only coin-operated & self-service facilities, Leather Shops, Lighting & Electrical Equipment Store, Liquor Stores, Loan Company Offices, Luggage & Suitcase Stores, Mail Order House, Massage Therapy Clinic, Meat, Fish & Seafood Shops, Medical Appliances & Supply Stores, Medical Clinics/Surgical Centers, Medical Laboratories, Medical Offices, Motion Picture Film Distribution Offices, Motor Vehicle Engine Repair Shops, Motor Vehicle Glass Shops, Motor Vehicle Muffler Shops, Motor Vehicle Painting or Body Rebuilding Shops, Motor Vehicle Parts & Accessories Sales, Motor Vehicle Rental Agencies, Motor Vehicle Repair, Major, Motor Vehicle Repair, Minor, Motor Vehicle Salesrooms, Motor Vehicle Tire Sales & Installation Stores, Motor Vehicle Upholstery Shops, Motorcycle & Accessories Sales & Service Store, Movie & Drama Theaters, Musical Instrument Stores, Nano-Brewery, -Distillery, -Meadery, and -Winery — hours limits and food-menu rule; outdoor live music needs a special use permit (Sec. 150.440), New or Used Motor Vehicle Sales Showroom, Indoor, News Syndication Services, Newspaper & Magazine Stands, Newspaper Offices, Off-Street Parking Lot, Freestanding, Office Supply Stores, Office of Institution of Religious, Charitable, or Philanthropic Nature, Offices for the Fitting & Repair of Hearing Aids, Prosthetic Appliances & the like, Optical Goods Store, Optometrist's & Ophthalmologist's Offices, Paint & Wallcovering Stores, Parks & Playgrounds, Performance Entertainment Venue, Personnel Training Centers, Pharmacies, Photographic Studios, Plumbing Shop, Sales & Service, Printing Shop including Blueprinting & Photocopying Shops, Printing Shops, hand press, off-set press, & photography only, Professional Membership Organization Offices, Professional Offices including Architect, Attorney, Engineer, Landscape Architect, Urban Planner, Psychiatrist's & Psychologist's Offices, Public Safety Telecommunications Facilities, Publishing Offices, Radio & Television Broadcasting Station, Real Estate Broker, Salesperson, & Service Offices, Record Shops, Recording Studios, Recreational & Sports Vehicle Sales & Service Facilities, Resale Shops, Research & Survey Firms, Restaurant, Brew Pubs, Restaurants, Fast-food or Carry-out, Restaurants, Outdoor (NOT located within 175 feet of a parcel with ground floor residential use), Restaurants, excluding dancing & entertainment, Restaurants, with dancing & entertainment, Security Broker, Dealer, & Exchange Offices, Security Equipment Sales & Service, Shoe Repair Shops, Shoe Stores, Specialty Shops, Sporting Goods Stores, Sports Training Schools, Stationery Stores, Stenographic & Other Temporary Office Employment Service Offices, Studios for Art, Ceramics, Drama, Speech, and similar skills, Tailoring & Dressmaking Stores, Tanning Salon, Tasting Shops (Beer, Wine, and Spirits), Taxicab Office, Dispatching, Telephone Business Offices, Telephone Relay Facilities, Temporary City-owned Emergency Services (Police and Fire) Buildings, Structures, and Uses, Tennis, Racquetball, Handball, Swimming & Other Private Recreational Clubs, Ticket Sales Facility, Title Abstracting Company Offices, Toy Stores, Travel Agencies, Tutoring Services, Upholstery Shops, Utility Maintenance Garages, Video Sales and/or Rental Store, Weight Loss Clinics (Diet Centers), Window Cleaning Service Offices

Special use approval required: Adult Day Care, Cellular Telephone Facilities without Towers for Use with Radio and/or Other Transmitting and Receiving Equipment, Including Cellular Telephone and Personal Wireless Communications Facilities — Including Antennas to a Maximum Height of 12 Feet without Towers but Excluding Satellite Dishes, Child Care Facility, Club or Lodge, private, Colleges, Junior Colleges & Universities, Community Living Facility, Convents, Monasteries or Seminaries, Cultural, Recreational, and Entertainment Uses Not Otherwise Regulated, Dinner Theaters, Drive-Through Facilities, as an accessory to any use in the table — special use permit as a conditional use, or as part of a Planned Development where Sec. 150.505 applies (Sec. 150.403(B)), Electric Vehicle Charging System, Electrical Receiving or Transforming Stations, Funeral Homes, Mortuaries & Crematoria, Garage, public, Gasoline &/or Diesel Fuel Stations, Gymnasiums, Heliports, Hotels and Motels, Houses of Worship, Meeting & Events Venue, Motor Vehicle Washing Facility, Multiple Family Dwellings — only as part of an approved Planned Development in which at least 25 percent of the gross floor area in newly-constructed buildings is commercial or retail (table note *), New or Used Motor Vehicle Sales &/or Storage Lots, freestanding, Nursing Home Care Facility (including Skilled Nursing Facility, Intermediate Care Facility, Licensed Intermediate Care Facility, and/or Sheltered Care Facility), Outdoor Lights with Towers for Athletic Fields located on High School Campuses, at such maximum wattage and at such maximum height as may be specified by the City Council in the ordinance approving the special use permit, Outdoor Theaters, festival-drama, Pet Shops, Radio and/or Television and/or Other Transmitting and Receiving Equipment, Including Cellular Telephone and Personal Wireless Communications Facilities with Towers or Poles, but excluding Public Safety Telecommunications Facilities, Recovery Services, Restaurants, Outdoor (located within 175 feet of a parcel with ground floor residential use), Retail Sales Uses Not Otherwise Regulated, Roller & Ice Skating Rinks, Timeshare-Related Uses, Utility Substations

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Downtown Highland Park: the city's highest-intensity core of retail, commercial, financial and service businesses, with high-density apartments encouraged on the second floor and above. The CDRO overlay also allows all-residential apartment buildings as a permitted use in parts of B5. (Sec. 150.401(T) and (AA), and Sec. 150.490.)

Permitted by right: Accounting, Auditing, & Bookkeeping Services, Acupuncture Services, Advertising Agency Offices, Antique Shops, Art & School Supply Stores, Art Shops, Bakeries & Confectioneries, Retail, Banks — facilities made conditional uses by the June 28, 2004 amendment stay lawful conditional uses but cannot expand without a conditional use permit (table note ~), Barber & Beauty Schools, Barber Shops, Beauty Shops, Bicycle & Accessories Sales & Service, Book Stores, Business & Management Consulting Service Offices, Business & Technical Schools, Business Association Offices, Camera & Photographic Supply Stores, China, Glassware, & Metalware Stores, Chiropractor's Offices, Civic, Social, & Fraternal Association Meeting Places, Clothing Stores, Coin & Stamp Stores, Collection Service Offices, Commodity Broker, Dealer, & Exchange Offices (including Wholesale), Computer Equipment Sales & Service, Consumer Protection Organization Offices, Convenience Food Mart, Craft Supply Stores, Credit Reporting Service Offices, Credit Union Offices, Dancing or Music Academies, Delicatessens, Dental Laboratories, Dental Offices, Department Stores, Detective & Protective Service Offices, Direct Mail Advertising Service Offices, Direct Selling Organizations, Domestic Pet Grooming Services, Drapery, Curtain & Window Covering Stores, Driving Schools, Drug Stores, Dry Goods Stores, Dwellings Only Above First Floor Permitted Commercial or Office Uses, Electrical Appliance Shops, Elementary & High Schools, Public, Private & Parochial including Kindergartens, Employment Agency Offices, Executive Offices, public; Judicial Quarters, public, Legislative Quarters, public; Offices of Federal, State, County or Local Governments, Fabrics & Sewing Accessory Stores, Financial Counseling Service Offices, Floor Covering Stores, Florist Shops, retail, Frozen Dessert Stores, Fruit & Vegetable Stores, Furniture Stores, Furriers & Fur Apparel Stores, General Business Offices, Gift, Novelty, & Souvenir Stores, Grocery Stores, with or without meat, Hardware Stores, Health Clubs, Health Clubs (Minor), Hobby Shops, Holding & Investment Service Offices, Home Decorating Sales & Service, Home Health Care Provider's Offices, Income Tax Services, Institutions for Special Education, Insurance Carriers, Agents, Brokers, & Service Offices, Interior Decorating Service Offices, Jewelry Stores, Key & Lock Shops, Kitchen & Bath Cabinet Showrooms, Labor Union & Similar Labor Organization Offices, Laundry & Dry Cleaning Establishments, drop-off & pick-up stations only, Laundry & Dry Cleaning Establishments, with only coin-operated & self-service facilities, Leather Shops, Lighting & Electrical Equipment Store with Retail Sales Component, Liquor Stores, Loan Company Offices, Luggage & Suitcase Stores, Mail Order House, Massage Therapy Clinic, Meat, Fish & Seafood Shops, Medical Appliances & Supply Stores, Medical Clinics/Surgical Centers, Medical Laboratories, Medical Offices, Motion Picture Film Distribution Offices, Movie & Drama Theaters, Musical Instrument Stores, Nano-Brewery, -Distillery, -Meadery, and -Winery — hours limits and food-menu rule; outdoor live music needs a special use permit (Sec. 150.440), News Syndication Services, Newspaper & Magazine Stands, Newspaper Offices, Off-Street Parking Lot, Freestanding, Municipally Owned or Operated, Office Supply Stores, Office of Institution of Religious, Charitable, or Philanthropic Nature, Offices for the Fitting & Repair of Hearing Aids, Prosthetic Appliances & the like, Optical Goods Store, Optometrist's & Ophthalmologist's Offices, Paint & Wallcovering Stores, Parks & Playgrounds, Performance Entertainment Venue, Personnel Training Centers, Pharmacies, Photographic Studios, Plumbing shop, Sales & Service with Retail Sales Component, Printing Shop including Blueprinting & Photocopying Shops With Retail Sales Component, Printing Shops, hand press, off-set press, & photography only, Professional Membership Organization Offices, Professional Offices including Architect, Attorney, Engineer, Landscape Architect, Urban Planner, Psychiatrist's & Psychologist's Offices, Public Safety Telecommunications Facilities, Publishing Offices, Real Estate Broker, Salesperson, & Service Offices, Record Shops, Resale Shops, Research & Survey Firms, Restaurant, Brew Pubs, Restaurants, Fast-food or Carry-out, Restaurants, Outdoor (NOT located within 175 feet of a parcel with ground floor residential use), Restaurants, excluding dancing & entertainment, Restaurants, with dancing & entertainment, Security Broker, Dealer, & Exchange Offices, Security Equipment Sales & Service, Shoe Repair Shops, Shoe Stores, Specialty Shops, Sporting Goods Stores, Sports Training Schools, Stationery Stores, Stenographic & Other Temporary Office Employment Service Offices, Studios for Art, Ceramics, Drama, Speech, and similar skills, Tailoring & Dressmaking Stores, Tanning Salon, Tasting Shops (Beer, Wine, and Spirits), Taxicab Office, Dispatching, Telephone Business Offices, Telephone Relay Facilities, Temporary City-owned Emergency Services (Police and Fire) Buildings, Structures, and Uses, Tennis, Racquetball, Handball, Swimming & Other Private Recreational Clubs, Ticket Sales Facility, Title Abstracting Company Offices, Toy Stores, Travel Agencies, Tutoring Services, Video Sales and/or Rental Store, Weight Loss Clinics (Diet Centers), Youth Lounge, Subscription

Special use approval required: Adult Day Care, Animal Clinics or Hospitals — no business outdoors (other than parking or loading), and none in a building with upper-story residential uses, without a special use permit (table note *), Bowling Alleys, Cellular Telephone Facilities without Towers for Use with Radio and/or Other Transmitting and Receiving Equipment, Including Cellular Telephone and Personal Wireless Communications Facilities — Including Antennas to a Maximum Height of 12 Feet without Towers but Excluding Satellite Dishes, Child Care Facility, Club or Lodge, private, Colleges, Junior Colleges & Universities, Community Living Facility, Convents, Monasteries or Seminaries, Cultural, Recreational, and Entertainment Uses Not Otherwise Regulated, Dinner Theaters, Domestic Pet Day Care — no business outdoors (other than parking or loading), and none in a building with upper-story residential uses, without a special use permit (table note *), Drive-Through Facilities, as an accessory to any use in the table — special use permit as a conditional use, or as part of a Planned Development where Sec. 150.505 applies (Sec. 150.403(B)), Electrical Receiving or Transforming Stations, Garage, public, Hotels and Motels, Houses of Worship, Meeting & Events Venue, Off-Street Parking Lot, Freestanding, Outdoor Lights with Towers for Athletic Fields located on High School Campuses, at such maximum wattage and at such maximum height as may be specified by the City Council in the ordinance approving the special use permit, Outdoor Theaters, festival-drama, Parking Decks, Parking Decks, Municipally Owned or Operated, Pet Shops, Radio and/or Television and/or Other Transmitting and Receiving Equipment, Including Cellular Telephone and Personal Wireless Communications Facilities with Towers or Poles, but excluding Public Safety Telecommunications Facilities, Recovery Services, Restaurants, Outdoor (located within 175 feet of a parcel with ground floor residential use), Retail Sales Uses Not Otherwise Regulated, Roller & Ice Skating Rinks, Timeshare-Related Uses, Utility Substations

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Large-scale, master-planned health care campus on at least 10 contiguous acres; the health care campus is the permitted use, with accessory uses such as pharmacies, offices, restaurants, child care and parking. (Sec. 150.401(V), Sec. 150.410 and Sec. 150.490.)

Permitted by right: Automatic Teller Machine, Health Care Campus, Public Safety Telecommunications Facilities, Recovery Services, Temporary City-owned Emergency Services (Police and Fire) Buildings, Structures, and Uses

Special use approval required: Cellular Telephone Facilities without Towers for Use with Radio and/or Other Transmitting and Receiving Equipment, Including Cellular Telephone and Personal Wireless Communications Facilities — Including Antennas to a Maximum Height of 12 Feet without Towers but Excluding Satellite Dishes, Drive-Through Facilities, as an accessory to any use in the table — special use permit as a conditional use, or as part of a Planned Development where Sec. 150.505 applies (Sec. 150.403(B)), Heliports, Medical Cannabis Dispensing Organization, Parking Decks — permitted instead when consistent with an approved Master Site Plan (table note +; Sec. 150.410)

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Light manufacturing, processing, storage, wholesaling and distribution, with some commercial uses also allowed. (Sec. 150.401(W) and Sec. 150.490.)

Permitted by right: Accounting, Auditing, & Bookkeeping Services, Acupuncture Services, Advertising Agency Offices, Animal Clinics or Hospitals — no business outdoors (other than parking or loading), and none in a building with upper-story residential uses, without a special use permit (table note *), Antique Shops, Art & School Supply Stores, Art Shops, Automatic Teller Machine, Bakeries & Confectioneries, Retail, Bakeries, Wholesale, Banks — facilities made conditional uses by the June 28, 2004 amendment stay lawful conditional uses but cannot expand without a conditional use permit (table note ~), Barber & Beauty Schools, Barber Shops, Beauty Shops, Bicycle & Accessories Sales & Service, Book Stores, Bowling Alleys, Building Maintenance Service Offices, Bus Terminals, Business & Management Consulting Service Offices, Business & Technical Schools, Camera & Photographic Supply Stores, Catering Service Facilities, China, Glassware, & Metalware Stores, Chiropractor's Offices, Clothing Stores, Coin & Stamp Stores, Collection Service Offices, Commodity Broker, Dealer, & Exchange Offices (including Wholesale), Computer Equipment Sales & Service, Consumer Protection Organization Offices, Convenience Food Mart, Craft Supply Stores, Credit Reporting Service Offices, Credit Union Offices, Dancing or Music Academies, Delicatessens, Dental Laboratories, Dental Offices, Department Stores, Detective & Protective Service Offices, Direct Mail Advertising Service Offices, Direct Selling Organizations, Disinfecting & Exterminating Service Offices, Domestic Pet Day Care — no business outdoors (other than parking or loading), and none in a building with upper-story residential uses, without a special use permit (table note *), Domestic Pet Grooming Services, Drapery, Curtain & Window Covering Stores, Driving Schools, Drug Stores, Dry Goods Stores, Electrical Appliance Shops, Elementary & High Schools, Public, Private & Parochial including Kindergartens, Employment Agency Offices, Executive Offices, public; Judicial Quarters, public, Legislative Quarters, public; Offices of Federal, State, County or Local Governments, Fabrics & Sewing Accessory Stores, Facilities for Manufacturing, Processing, Assembly, & Packaging of: Articles of Merchandise from the following previously prepared materials: bone, canvas, cellophane, cloth, cork, feathers, felt, fiber, fur, glass, hair, horn, leather, metal, paper, plastics, stone, tobacco, wood, yarns & paint, not employing a boiling process, Facilities for Manufacturing, Processing, Assembly, & Packaging of: Bakery goods, candy, cosmetics, dairy products (including milk), drugs, grains, perfumes, pharmaceuticals, toiletries & food products, except the following uses: fish, meat products, sauerkraut, vinegar, yeast, & the rendering or refining of fats or oils, Facilities for Manufacturing, Processing, Assembly, & Packaging of: Electrical Devices, appliances, apparatus, & instruments, Facilities for Manufacturing, Processing, Assembly, & Packaging of: Mechanical Devices, machines & parts such as toys, novelties, & other light or small mechanical products, Facilities for Manufacturing, Processing, Assembly, & Packaging of: Plastics, chemicals, & drugs, except poisons & insecticides, Facilities for Manufacturing, Processing, Assembly, & Packaging of: Pottery, figurines, & similar ceramic products using only previously pulverized clay, Financial Counseling Service Offices, Floor Covering Stores, Florist Shops, retail, Florist Shops, wholesale, Frozen Dessert Stores, Fruit & Vegetable Stores, Furniture Stores, Furriers & Fur Apparel Stores, Garden Supply Shops, General Business Offices, General Construction Companies, Gift, Novelty, & Souvenir Stores, Glass Sales & Installation Facilities, Greenhouses, commercial, Grocery Stores, with or without meat, Hardware Stores, Health Clubs, Heating & Air Conditioning Equipment, Hobby Shops, Holding & Investment Service Offices, Home Decorating Sales & Service, Home Health Care Provider's Offices, Income Tax Services, Institutions for Special Education, Insurance Carriers, Agents, Brokers, & Service Offices, Interior Decorating Service Offices, Jewelry Stores, Kennels, Key & Lock Shops, Kitchen & Bath Cabinet Showrooms, Landscape Contractors and Yard Maintenance Services, Laundry & Dry Cleaning Establishments, drop-off & pick-up stations only, Laundry & Dry Cleaning Establishments, except coin-operated & self-service - under 5000 sq. ft., Laundry & Dry Cleaning Establishments, with only coin-operated & self-service facilities, Leather Shops, Lighting & Electrical Equipment Store, Liquor Stores, Loan Company Offices, Luggage & Suitcase Stores, Lumber & Building Material Yard & Storage Facilities, Mail Order House, Manufacturing Laboratories & Testing Facilities, Marine Craft & Accessories Sales & Service Facilities, Masonry, Stonework & Tilesetting Shops, Massage Therapy Clinic, Meat, Fish & Seafood Shops, Medical Appliances & Supply Stores, Medical Clinics/Surgical Centers, Medical Laboratories, Medical Offices, Metal Fabrication Shops, including cold rolled sheet, strip, & bars, Millwork & Cabinet Fabricating Shops, Mini-warehouses, Miniature Golf Courses, Motion Picture Film Distribution Offices, Motor Vehicle Detailing Shops, Motor Vehicle Engine Repair Shops, Motor Vehicle Glass Shops, Motor Vehicle Muffler Shops, Motor Vehicle Painting or Body Rebuilding Shops, Motor Vehicle Parts & Accessories Sales, Motor Vehicle Rental Agencies, Motor Vehicle Repair, Major, Motor Vehicle Repair, Minor, Motor Vehicle Salesrooms, Motor Vehicle Tire Sales & Installation Stores, Motor Vehicle Upholstery Shops, Motorcycle & Accessories Sales & Service Store, Movie & Drama Theaters, Musical Instrument Stores, Nano-Brewery, -Distillery, -Meadery, and -Winery — hours limits and food-menu rule; outdoor live music needs a special use permit (Sec. 150.440), News Syndication Services, Newspaper & Magazine Stands, Newspaper Distribution Services, Newspaper Offices, Nurseries, Off-Street Parking Lot, Freestanding, Office Supply Stores, Offices for the Fitting & Repair of Hearing Aids, Prosthetic Appliances & the like, Optical Goods Store, Optometrist's & Ophthalmologist's Offices, Paint & Wallcovering Stores, Parks & Playgrounds, Performance Entertainment Venue, Personnel Training Centers, Pharmacies, Photographic Studios, Plumbing Shop, Sales & Service, Printing Shop including Blueprinting & Photocopying Shops, Printing Shops, hand press, off-set press, & photography only, Professional Offices including Architect, Attorney, Engineer, Landscape Architect, Urban Planner, Psychiatrist's & Psychologist's Offices, Public Safety Telecommunications Facilities, Publishing Offices, Radio & Television Broadcasting Station, Ready-mix Concrete Yards, Real Estate Broker, Salesperson, & Service Offices, Record Shops, Recording Studios, Recreational & Sports Vehicle Sales & Service Facilities, Refrigerated Warehouses, Resale Shops, Research & Survey Firms, Restaurant, Brew Pubs, Restaurants, Fast-food or Carry-out, Restaurants, Outdoor (NOT located within 175 feet of a parcel with ground floor residential use), Restaurants, excluding dancing & entertainment, Restaurants, with dancing & entertainment, Road Paving Companies, Rock & Stone Supply Yards, Roofing Companies, Security Broker, Dealer, & Exchange Offices, Security Equipment Sales & Service, Sheetmetal & Gutter Service Shop, Shoe Repair Shops, Shoe Stores, Solar Energy Systems, Specialty Shops, Sporting Goods Stores, Sports Training Schools, Stationery Stores, Stenographic & Other Temporary Office Employment Service Offices, Studios for Art, Ceramics, Drama, Speech, and similar skills, Swimming Pool Companies, Tailoring & Dressmaking Stores, Tanning Salon, Tasting Shops (Beer, Wine, and Spirits), Taxicab Office, Dispatching, Telephone Business Offices, Telephone Relay Facilities, Temporary City-owned Emergency Services (Police and Fire) Buildings, Structures, and Uses, Tennis, Racquetball, Handball, Swimming & Other Private Recreational Clubs, Ticket Sales Facility, Title Abstracting Company Offices, Tobacco and Smoking Shops (see Sec. 150.431) — only between the Union Pacific Railroad right-of-way (west) and U.S. Route 41 (east) (Sec. 150.431), Toy Stores, Travel Agencies, Tutoring Services, Upholstery Shops, Utility Yards, Video Sales and/or Rental Store, Warehouse and Distribution Facilities, Enclosed, Water Well Drilling Companies, Weight Loss Clinics (Diet Centers), Welding Equipment & Supply Shop, Wholesale Job Printing, with Bookbinding, Wholesale Trade Offices & Storage Facilities, Window Cleaning Service Offices

Special use approval required: Adult Day Care, Adult Use Cannabis Dispensary — only in the part of the I District between the Union Pacific Railroad right-of-way (east) and U.S. Route 41 (west), with distancing rules (Sec. 150.421(A)(2), (B)(13)), Cellular Telephone Facilities without Towers for Use with Radio and/or Other Transmitting and Receiving Equipment, Including Cellular Telephone and Personal Wireless Communications Facilities — Including Antennas to a Maximum Height of 12 Feet without Towers but Excluding Satellite Dishes, Child Care Facility, Club or Lodge, private, Colleges, Junior Colleges & Universities, Community Living Facility, Construction Hauling Companies, Craft Brewery, Distillery, Winery, and Meadery, Cultural, Recreational, and Entertainment Uses Not Otherwise Regulated, Dinner Theaters, Drive-Through Facilities, as an accessory to any use in the table — special use permit as a conditional use, or as part of a Planned Development where Sec. 150.505 applies (Sec. 150.403(B)), Electric Vehicle Charging System, Electrical Receiving or Transforming Stations, Excavation Companies, Facilities for Manufacturing, Processing, Assembly, & Packaging of: Biological & botanical products, except manure, Facilities for the Bottling & canning of Liquids, Gasoline &/or Diesel Fuel Stations, Gymnasiums, Heliports, Hotels and Motels, Laundry & Dry Cleaning Establishments, except coin-operated & self-service - over 5000 sq. ft., Medical Cannabis Cultivation Center, Medical Cannabis Dispensing Organization, Meeting & Events Venue, Metal Salvage Yards & Operations, Motor Vehicle Washing Facility, Motor Vehicle Wrecking & Salvage Yards, New or Used Motor Vehicle Sales &/or Storage Lots, freestanding, Open Storage Yards, Outdoor Lights with Towers for Athletic Fields located on High School Campuses, at such maximum wattage and at such maximum height as may be specified by the City Council in the ordinance approving the special use permit, Outdoor Theaters, festival-drama, Pet Shops, Radio and/or Television and/or Other Transmitting and Receiving Equipment, Including Cellular Telephone and Personal Wireless Communications Facilities with Towers or Poles, but excluding Public Safety Telecommunications Facilities, Restaurants, Outdoor (located within 175 feet of a parcel with ground floor residential use), Retail Sales Uses Not Otherwise Regulated, Roller & Ice Skating Rinks, Sand, Gravel, & Earth Sales & Storage Facilities, Sewer Companies, Taxicab Storage, Timeshare-Related Uses, Utility Substations, Watchkeepers' Quarters, Wholesale Laundry, Cleaning, & Dyeing Plants

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