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Home My WebLink AboutORDINANCES-1974-077-O-740 • • 77-0-74 AN ORDINANCE Amending the Zoning Ordinance by Revising and Updating Manufacturing District Regulations and Creating a New Research and Development District BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF EVANSTON, ILLINOIS: SECTION 1: That Subsections A, B and C of Section IX of the Zoning.Ordinance of the City of .' Evanston, Illinois, adopted November 21, 1960, as amended, be further amended to read as follows: "SECTION IX RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT AND MANUFACTURING DISTRICTS "A. General Requirements - All Districts "I. Any manufacturing, fabricating, assembly or disassembly, repairing, storing, cleaning, servicing, and testing of goods, wares, and merchandise shall be carried on in such a manner as not to be injurious or offensive by reason of the emission or creating of noise, vibration, smoke, dust, or other particulate matter, toxic or noxious matter, odor, glare, or heat, fire or explosive hazards. The Director of Inspections and Permits may require evidence that adequate controls or devices have been or will be installed and used so that all operations are conducted .in a manner which will L W • • 77-0-74 2 __ .::. protect the public health, safety, comfort and welfare from such nuisances. 0�1 112. No activities involving the storage, utilization or manufacture of materials or products which decompose by detonation shall be permitted, except such as are specifically licensed by the City of Evanston. 113. No lot, parcel, or tract of land shall be used, and no building or structure shall be erected, altered or remodeled for any of the following uses: abbatoirs, arsenals, blast furnaces, boiler works; coke ovens; drop forges, and forge plants; grain storage; foundries; ore reduction; petroleum refining; rock excavation, and crushing; packing plants, stock yards or slaughter of animals or fowls; incineration of garbage, dead animals, offal or refuse, processing of fish oil; dumps and slag piles; tanning or curing of raw hides, smelting of ores; or manufacture of creosote; fertilizer; rubber; tallow, grease, lard, or fat; brick, tile, or terra cotta; bulk chemicals; gas; soap; steel, tin; paper and paper pulp; cement, gypsum, lime of paris; petroleum products. " 4. Any activities involving the manufacturing, fabricating, assembly, disassembly, repairing, storing, cleaning, servicing and testing of goods, wares and merchandise shall be within completely enclosed buildings. In M3 and M4 only, such activities may be out of doors I • 77-0- 74 -3- 0" "if screened by a solid wall or uniformly painted solid fence at least eight feet in height. "5. No building, structure, or parcel of land shall be'used for the manufacturing, fabricating, assembly, disassembly, repairing, storing, cleaning or servicing of goods, wares, and merchandise, within 30 feet of any lot line located in,a Residence District; and, where • directly across a street from a Residence District, there shall be provided for such use.a yard not less than 27 feet in depth or width along such street frontage. "B. M1 Research and Development District "1. Statement of Purpose To provide sites for industrial, office, adminis- trative, and research and development facilities under controls that will result in a district that will attract new development and at the • same time serve as a buffer zone between other manufacturing districts.and the residence districts: All required front and side yards shall be suitably landscaped and all waste receptacles --.--- -.. L 11 C7 77-0-74 -4- "shall be in a building or a rear yard completely screened from view. "2. Permitted uses where the site is less than one acre. Any site of one acre or more may be developed only as a planned development. "u. Offices - business, professional and public, Including, but not limited to, any,public or privatF o.Mce use for associations, institutions and trade "nations. "b. Accessory Uses to the above permitted uses. "I. Special Uses. _ 1ia. Planned Developments. "b. The following additional uses may be allowed if approved as part of a planned development: "(1) Research and testing laboratories. "(2) Product development. "(3) Light industrial plants limited to the following: "(a) Advertising displays "(b) Camera and photo equipment except film "(c) Electronic products "(d) Jewelry "(e). Leather goods _ L • • 77-0-74 -5- "(f) Pharmaceutical product compounding "(g) Precision instruments such as optical, medical and drafting instruments. "4. Building height shall not exceed 35'. "5, Front yard 27'. "6. Side yard 15' unless abutting a street, in which case 20'. tt7. Rear yard 20' unless abutting an alley, in which case 10' shall be the minimum except when a . Residence District is across the alley, the 20' shall be retained. "8. Signs Non -flashing business signs are permitted subject to the following: '-'a. Where a sign is illuminated by light re- flected on it, direct rays of'light shall not beam upon any part of a residential building, nor into a Residential District nor into a street. "b. The gross surface area.of all signs on a lot shall not exceed two times the number of lineal feet in the frontage of the lot. • • f • k`}-'315 77-0-74 "c. No roof or projecting signs shall be permitted. "d. Any sign erected under.the restrictions of Section IV, J, of this ordinance and Section 50-27 of the Sign Ordinance shall be limited in size to 8 square feet per side. Off-street loading berths in accordance with provisions set forth in Section X of this ordinance except that all loading berths adjacent to a Residence District or to an intervening alley separating such loading berths from a Residence District shall be completely screened therefrom by building walls or doors or a combination thereof not less 8' high. "10. Off-street parking "Parking spaces in accordance with the provisions set forth in Section X of this ordinance. "C. M2 Research and Development District 111. Statement of purpose "To provide sites for industrial, office, administrative and research and development facilities under c ontrols that will result in a district that will attract new development and at the same time serve as a buffer zone between the other manufacturing districts and the 0 L. • • 77-0-74 -7- "residence districts. All required front and side yards shall be suitably landscaped and all waste receptacles shall be in a building or a rear yard completely screened -a from view. "2. Permitted Uses "a.. Uses permitted in Ml. "b. Uses listed as planned development uses in Ml. "c. Accessory uses to the above permitted uses.. "3. Special Uses "Planned Developments "4. Building height shall not exceed 35'. "5. Front yard 271. "6. Side yards 15' unless abutting a street, in which case 20'. "7. Rear yard 20' unless abutting an alley in which case 10' shall be the minimum except that when a Residence District is across an alley, the 20' shall be maintained. "8. Signs "Non -flashing business signs are permitted subject to the following? • 0 4") 7 77-0-74 "a. Where a sign is illuminated by light reflected on it, direct rays of light shall not beam upon any part of a residential building, nor into a Residential District nor into a street. "b. The gross surface area of all signs on a list shall not exceed two times the number of lineal feet'in the frontage of the lot. "c. No roof or projecting signs shall be permitted. "d. Any sign erected under the restrictions of Section IV.J of this ordinance and Section 50-27 of the Sign Ordinance shall be limited in size to 8 square feet per'side. "10. Off-street loading berths in accordance with provisions set forth in Section X of this ordinance except that all loading berths adjacent to a Residence District shall be completely screened therefrom by building walls or doors or a combination thereof not less than 8' high. "ll. Off-street parking "Parking spaces in accordance with the provisions set • forth in Section X of this ordinance. SECTION 2: Reletter the existing M1 Restricted Manu- facturing District from "B." to "D," and.. to amend the zone designation to read "NT'. • • ().)18 77-0-74 L. -9- SECTION 3: Reletter the existing M2 General Manufacturing District from "C:1to "E.", and to amend the zone designation to read "M4". SECTION 4: Amend the M4 District Regulations, Item 3, "Special Uses," by adding: "e. Planned development." SECTION 5: Redesignate on the zoning map all existing property designated M1 as M3. SECTION 6: Redesignate on the zoning map all existing property designated M2 as M4. SECTION 7: All ordinances or portions of ordinances in conflict herewith are hereby repealed. SECTION 8: This ordinance shall be in full force and effect from and after its passage, approval and publication in the manner prescribed by law. Introduced August 19 Adopted August 26 Approved Attest: J Is/ MmirirP F_ Rrntm City Clerk Approved as to form: /c/ F.rlvar STgnnwman� Tr Mayor Tgrlr M Ci crrnl Corporation Counsel 1974 1974 ,1974