In the construction of this chapter, the rules and definitions
contained in this article shall be observed and applied, except when
the context clearly indicates otherwise.
A.Â
The present tense includes the future and the future the present;
the singular number includes the plural and the plural the singular;
the word "shall" is mandatory, and the word "may" is permissive.
B.Â
The provisions under each caption or heading in this chapter shall
be construed and limited in a manner consistent with the applicable
captions or headings and subheadings.
C.Â
All measured distances shall be to the nearest integral foot; if
a fraction is 1/2 or less, the integral foot next below shall be taken.
The following words and terms, when used in this chapter, shall
have the meaning set forth below, except where specifically indicated
in other sections of this chapter:
To have a common property line or district line.
A use, structure, or part of a structure, which:
Is subordinate to and serves the principal use or structure.
Is subordinate in area, extent, or purpose to the principal
use or structure.
Contributes to the comfort, convenience or necessity of occupants
of the principal use or structure.
Is located on the same lot as the principal use or structure
served, with the exception of such accessory uses or structures located
in a planned development and accessory off-street parking facilities
as are permitted elsewhere than on the same lot with the use or structure.
Lying near or close to; in the neighborhood or vicinity of.
Touching or contiguous, as distinguished from lying near.
Farming, dairying, pasturage, apiculture, horticulture, floriculture,
viticulture and animal and poultry husbandry and accessory use customarily
incidental to normal agricultural activities.
Any area of land or water which is used, or intended, for
the landing and take-off of aircraft, together with all structures
located thereon.
A right-of-way which affords a secondary means of vehicular
access to abutting properties.
A change in size, shape, character or use of a building or
structure.
A building or portion thereof designated or used for the
care, observation, or treatment of domestic animals.
A business establishment containing facilities for simultaneously
washing more than two motor vehicles, using production-line methods.
A building, or portion thereof, or lot used for offering
for sale at retail to the public fuels, oils, and accessories for
motor vehicles, where repair service is incidental, where no storage
or parking space is offered for rent, and where no motor vehicles,
trailers, or boats are offered for sale or rent. When such dispensing,
sale, or offering for sale is incidental to the conduct of a public
garage, the premises are classified as a public garage.
An area of land where three or more motor vehicles, or vehicles,
machinery, or equipment drawn or operated by attaching to motor vehicles
or mechanical unit, not in or being restored to running or operable
condition, or parts thereof are stored in the open and any land, building,
or structure used for wrecking or storing prior to wrecking of such
motor vehicles, machinery, or equipment or parts thereof.
A roof-like mechanism, retractable in operation, which projects
from the wall of a building.
A story having part but not more than 1/2 of its floor-to-ceiling
height below grade. When a basement is used exclusively for storage
purposes, as a garage for use of occupants of the building, or other
facilities common to the operation and maintenance of the entire building,
it shall not be counted as a story.
A tract of land bounded by a street, or by a combination
of streets, public parks, railroad rights-of-way, or other lines of
demarcation.
A residential building, or portion thereof, other than a
motel, apartment hotel, or hotel, containing lodging rooms for accommodation
of three but not more than 10 persons who are not members of the keeper's
family and where lodging, meals or both are provided.
A structure having a roof and which is permanently affixed
to the land, and built for the enclosure, shelter, or protection of
persons, animals, chattels, or movable property of any kind. Buildings
are separated on all sides from other structures by yards or by walls
in which there are no communicating doors, windows, and other openings.
The vertical distance from grade to the highest point of
the coping of a flat roof or to the deck line of a mansard roof, or
to the mean height level between eaves and ridge for gable, hip, or
gambrel roofs.
The Building and Zoning Officer of Mendota, Illinois, or
his duly authorized representative.
A building with a permanent roof separated on all sides from
the adjoining open space, or from other buildings or structures, by
exterior or party walls, pierced only by windows and normal entrance
and exit doors.
A building surrounded by open space on the same lot.
A nonaccessory building in which is conducted the principal
use of the lot.
Used to indicate the size and setback of buildings or structures,
and the location of same with respect to one another, and includes
the following:
An occupation, employment, or enterprise which occupies time,
attention, labor, and materials, or wherein merchandise is exhibited
or sold, or where services are offered.
A roofed automobile shelter, with two or more open sides,
the nature of which is permanent. A structure that utilizes canvas,
plastic or similar fabrics of limited durability shall be considered
a temporary structure.
An area having more than 1/2 of its floor-to-ceiling height
below grade and which is not counted as a story.
A building or portion thereof, the principal use of which
is for offices of physicians or dentists, or both, for the examination
and treatment of persons on an outpatient basis.
A nonprofit association whose facilities are restricted to
persons who are bona fide members and their guests. Food and alcoholic
beverages may be served on its premises, provided they are secondary
and incidental to the principal use.
A building or structure which:
An open unoccupied space other than a yard on the same lot
with a building or group of buildings, and which is bounded on two
or more sides by such building or buildings.
The amplitude or intensity of an earthborne vibration measured
in inches. The displacement or amplitude is 1/2 the total earth movement.
An establishment or part thereof in which are provided facilities
where serving or consuming commodities, or both, is intended to occur
primarily in patrons' automobiles parked on the premises.
A building, or portion thereof, designed or used exclusively
for residential purposes, including single-family, two-family, and
multiple-family dwellings, but not including mobile homes or other
trailers, or lodging rooms in hotels, motels, or lodging houses.
A dwelling joined to two other dwellings by party walls,
or vertical cavity walls, and aboveground physically unifying horizontal
structure elements.
A dwelling which is surrounded on all sides by open space
on the same lot.
A dwelling containing three or more dwelling units.
A dwelling joined to one other dwelling by a party wall,
or vertical cavity wall, and aboveground physically unifying horizontal
structural elements.
A dwelling containing one dwelling unit.
A dwelling containing two dwelling units only, one above
the other.
One or more rooms which are arranged, designed, or used as
living quarters for one family only. Individual bathrooms and complete
single kitchen facilities, permanently installed to serve the entire
family, shall always be included within each dwelling unit.
A cyclic movement of the earth due to the propagation of
mechanical energy.
A dwelling unit consisting of one principal room, exclusive
of bathroom, kitchen, hallway, closets, or dining room alcove directly
off the principal room.
A terminal at which electric energy is received from the
transmission system and is delivered to the distribution system only.
A terminal at which electric energy is received from the
transmission system and is delivered to other elements of the transmission
system and, generally, to the local distribution system.
A structure or lot used in whole or in part as a place of
business, the ownership or management of which is separate and distinct
from the ownership or management of any other place of business located
on the same or other lot.
One person or two or more persons, related by blood, foster
relationship, marriage or adoption, and, in addition, any domestic
servants or gratuitous guests thereof; or one or more persons who
need not be so related, and, in addition, domestic servants or gratuitous
guests thereof, who are living together in a single, nonprofit dwelling
unit and maintaining a common household with single cooking facilities.
A roomer, boarder or lodger shall not be considered a member of the
family.
A structure, including gates, or tree or shrub hedge which
is a barrier and used as a boundary or means of protection or confinement.
A fence which has over its entirety at least 50% of the surface
area in open space as viewed at right angles from the fence, except
that the required open space in louver-type fences may be viewed from
any angle.
A fence which conceals from view, from adjoining properties,
streets, or alleys, activities conducted behind it.
The elevation of the highest flood level that has been recorded
or may be subsequently designated by the City Engineer.
That continuous area adjacent to a stream or stream bed, or
any stormwater retention area and its tributaries, whose elevation
is equal to or lower than the flood-crest elevation, including also
land having an elevation higher than flood-crest elevation but less
than 10 acres in area and surrounded by land in a floodplain area
or an area of such elevation secured by land fill projecting into
a floodplain area.
Any point shall be deemed to be within the floodplain area if
it falls below the elevation of a high water mark, as the elevation
of the mark is projected in horizontal directions perpendicular to
the flow of the stream and thence to intersections at an equal elevation
with the land on either side of the stream. Any point between the
aforedescribed projections of any two high water marks shall be deemed
within the floodplain area if it is at an elevation equal to or lower
than similar projections of the interpolated flood-crest elevation.
The interpolated flood-crest elevation is the calculated elevation
of the flood crest at the center line of the stream between two known
flood crests of the nearest upstream and downstream high water marks;
and the difference in elevation between the flood crest at this location
and at either of the high water mark projections is directly proportional
to the difference in stream center line distance between the two high
water mark projections.
For determining floor area ratio:
The sum of the gross horizontal areas of the several floors,
including also the basement floor of a building, measured from the
exterior faces of the exterior walls, or from the center lines of
walls separating two buildings. The floor area shall also include
the horizontal areas on each floor devoted to:
Elevator shafts and stairwells;
Mechanical equipment, except if located on the roof, when either
open or enclosed; i.e., bulkheads, water tanks, and cooling towers;
Habitable attic space as permitted by the Building Code of Mendota,
Illinois;
Interior balconies and mezzanines;
Enclosed porches; and
Accessory uses.
The floor area of structures used for bulk storage of materials,
i.e., grain elevators, petroleum tanks, shall also be included in
the floor area, and such floor area shall be determined on the basis
of the height of such structures with one floor for each 10 feet of
structure height; and if such structure measures less than 10 feet
but not less than five feet over such floor height intervals, it shall
be construed to have an additional floor.
The horizontal area in each floor of a building devoted to off-street
parking and off-street loading facilities and the horizontal area
of a cellar floor shall not be included in the floor area.
For determining off-street parking and off-street loading requirements:
"Floor area," when prescribed as the basis of measurement for off-street
parking spaces and off-street loading spaces for any use, shall be
the sum of the gross horizontal area of the several floors of the
building, excluding areas used for accessory off-street parking facilities,
and the horizontal areas to the basement and cellar floors that are
devoted exclusively to uses accessory to the operation of the entire
building. All horizontal dimensions shall be taken from the exterior
of the walls.
The numerical value obtained by dividing the floor area within
a building or buildings on a lot by the area by such lot. (The floor
area ratio as designated for each district, when multiplied by the
lot area in square feet, shall determine the maximum permissible floor
area for the building or buildings on the lot.)
An accessory building designed and used for the storage of
motor vehicles owned and used by the occupants of the buildings to
which it is accessory and in which no occupation or business for profit
is carried on. Not more than one of the motor vehicles may be a commercial
vehicle of not more than 1Â 1/2 tons' capacity.
A building or portion thereof, other than a private or storage
garage, designed or used for equipping, servicing, or repairing motor
vehicles. Hiring, selling, or storing of motor vehicles may be included.
A building or portion thereof designed or used or land used
exclusively for storage of motor vehicles, and in which motor fuels
and oils are not sold, and motor vehicles are not equipped, repaired,
hired, or sold.
The established grade of the street or sidewalk. Where no
such grade has been established, the grade shall be the elevation
of the sidewalk at the property line. Where no sidewalks exist, the
grade shall be the average elevation of the street adjacent to the
property line; except in cases of unusual topographic conditions as
determined by the Building Inspector, grade shall be the average elevation
of the finished surface of the ground adjoining the exterior walls
of a building at the base of a structure.
The ratio between the total number of dwelling units on a
lot and total lot area in acres. The area shall include streets, schools
and park sites, and is computed as 130% of the land actually dedicated
to residential use.
The lot area covered by a principal building, measured at
highest ground grade, adjacent to the building, from the exterior
faces of the exterior walls, but excluding open porches or terraces,
and garages or carports.
A person who occupies or has the right to occupy a lodging
house, rooming house, boardinghouse, hotel, apartment hotel, or motel
accommodations as his domicile and place of permanent residence.
Any gainful business, occupation, or profession conducted
within a dwelling unit by a member of the family residing in the dwelling
unit which is incidental and secondary to the use of the dwelling
unit for dwelling purposes.
An establishment containing lodging rooms for occupancy by
transient guests, in contradistinction to a lodging house, boardinghouse,
or a rooming house, and which provides customary hotel services such
as maid, telephone and secretarial, bellboy and desk services, and
the use and upkeep of furnishings and laundering of linens.
A hotel in which at least 80% of the hotel accommodations
are occupied by permanent guests.
A building occupied by a not-for-profit corporation wholly
for public or private use.
A lot, and any accessory building or structures thereon,
which is used primarily for buying, selling, exchanging, storing,
baling, packing, disassembling, or handling waste or scrap materials,
including vehicles, machinery and equipment not in operable condition
or parts thereof, and other metals, paper, rags, rubber tires, and
bottles. A junkyard includes an automobile wrecking yard, but does
not include an establishment, located in the Manufacturing District,
engaged exclusively in processing of scrap iron or other metals to
be sold only to establishments engaged in manufacturing of steel or
metal alloys.
Any premises or portion thereof on which more than three
dogs, cats, or other household domestic animals over one year of age
are kept, or on which more than two such animals are maintained, boarded,
bred, or cared for, in return for remuneration, or are kept for the
purpose of sale.
See "research laboratory."
A strip of land used or intended for use for the landing
and take-off of the private aircraft of the owner or lessee of the
landing strip and his guests; and such accessory structures customarily
incidental to the operations, which may include one building for the
storage and maintenance of not more than two such private aircraft.
A business that provides coin-operated self-service-type
washing, drying, dry-cleaning, and ironing facilities, provided that:
A space within the principal building, or on the same lot
as the principal building, providing for the standing, loading, or
unloading of one truck, and with access to a street or alley.
A building originally designed for and used as a single-
or two-family dwelling, all or a portion of which contains lodging
rooms which accommodate persons who are not members of the keeper's
family. Lodging, or meals, or both are provided for compensation for
three but not more than 10 persons.
A room or suite of rooms rented as sleeping and living quarters,
but without cooking facilities and with or without an individual bathroom.
In a suite of rooms, each room which provides sleeping accommodations
shall be counted as one "lodging room" for the purposes of this chapter.
A tract of land which is designated by its owner or developer
as a tract to be used, developed, or built upon as a unit, under unified
ownership or control. Therefore, a lot may or may not coincide with
a lot of record.
The area of horizontal plane bounded by lot lines.
The area of a lot occupied by the principal and accessory
structures.
The mean horizontal distance between the front lot line and
the rear lot line of a lot measured within the lot boundaries.
The property line bounding a lot.
The boundary of a lot abutting a street.
A lot line which does not abut a street.
An interior lot line which is most distant from and is almost
parallel to the front lot line; and in the case of an irregular or
triangular shaped lot, a line 10 feet in length within the lot which
is parallel to and at the maximum distance from the front lot line.
Any boundary of a lot which is not a front line or a rear
lot line.
A single lot which is part of a subdivision, the plat of
which has been recorded in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of
LaSalle County, Illinois.
A minimum horizontal distance between the side lot lines
of a lot measured at the narrowest width within the 30 feet of depth
immediately in back of the front yard line.
A lot of which at least two adjacent sides abut for their
full length upon streets, provided that the interior angle at the
intersection of such two sides is less than 135°.
A lot that is not a corner lot.
A corner lot, the street side lot line of which is substantially
a continuation of the front lot line of the first lot to its rear.
A lot having a pair of opposite lot lines along two more
or less parallel streets, and which is not a corner lot. Both street
lines shall be deemed front lot lines.
An establishment, the principal use of which is manufacturing,
fabricating, processing, assembly, repairing, storing, cleaning, servicing,
or testing of materials, goods, or products.
A roof-like structure of a permanent nature which projects
from the wall of a building.
Any vehicle or similar portable structure designed and constructed
for dwelling purposes which contains cooking, sanitary, and electrical
facilities and has a gross floor area of 240 square feet or more.
A lot, parcel, or tract of land developed with facilities
for accommodating two or more mobile homes, provided each mobile home
contains a kitchen, flush toilet, and shower or bath; and such park
shall be for use only by nontransient dwellers remaining continuously
for more than one month, whether or not a charge is made. It shall
not include a sales lot in which automobiles or unoccupied mobile
homes or other trailers are parked for the purpose of inspection or
sale; except mobile homes located on a site in the mobile home park
which are occupied or vacant for not more than 90 days after occupancy
may be sold or offered for sale.
An establishment consisting of a group of attached or detached
lodging rooms with bathrooms, and where more than 50% of the lodging
rooms are occupied or designed for occupancy by transient automobile
tourists. A motel furnishes customary hotel services such as maid
service and laundering of linen, telephone, secretarial and desk service,
and the use and upkeep of furniture. One dwelling unit may be included
for occupancy by the owner or manager of the motel.
A building or area in which freight brought by motor truck
is assembled or stored for routing in intrastate or interstate shipment
by motor truck.
A passenger vehicle, truck, truck-trailer, trailer, or semitrailer
propelled or drawn by mechanical power.
A sign indicating the name and address of a building, or
the name of an occupant thereof, and the practice of a permitted occupation
therein.
A strip of land within and along a rear lot line of a through
lot adjoining a street which is designated on a recorded subdivision
plat or property deed as land over which motor vehicular travel shall
not be permitted.
Any building or structure lawfully established which:
Any building or structure and the use thereof or the use
of land that does not conform with the regulations of this chapter
or any amendment thereto governing use in the district in which it
is located, but which conformed to all of the codes, ordinances, and
other legal requirements applicable at the time such building or structure
was erected, enlarged, or altered, and the use thereof or the use
of land was established.
A material which is capable of causing injury to living organisms
by chemical reaction, or is capable of causing detrimental effects
to the physical or economic well-being of individuals.
An establishment for the part-time care of five or more children
of pre-elementary school age in addition to the members of the family
residing therein.
A home for aged, chronically ill, or incurable persons, in
which three or more persons not members of the family residing on
the premises are received and provided with food, shelter, and care,
but not including hospitals, clinics, or similar institutions devoted
primarily to the diagnosis and treatment of disease or injury, maternity
cases, or mental illness.
Any material that produces an olfactory response among human
beings.
Land which is improved and used or a structure which is designed
and used exclusively for the storage of passenger motor vehicles,
either for accessory off-street parking spaces or commercial off-street
parking spaces when permitted herein by district regulations.
Land used or occupied for the purpose of buying, selling,
or renting merchandise stored or displayed out-of-doors prior to sale.
Such merchandise includes automobiles, trucks, motor scooters, motorcycles,
boats, or similar commodities.
An area, enclosed in a building or unenclosed, reserved for
the parking of one motor vehicle and which is accessible to and from
a street or alley.
Material other than water which is suspended in or discharged
into the atmosphere in a finely divided form as a liquid or solid
at outdoor ambient conditions.
An interior wall of adjoining structures extending from its
footing to the underside of the roof, and which separates and is in
common use by such adjoining structures.
A criteria established to control smoke and particulate matter,
noise, odorous matter, toxic matter, vibration, fire and explosion
hazards, glare, and radiation hazards generated by or inherent in
uses of land or buildings.
The Plan Commission of Mendota, Illinois.
A parcel or tract of land, initially under single ownership
or control, which contains two or more principal buildings and one
or more principal uses, planned and constructed as a unified development,
and where certain regulations of this chapter for the district where
it is located are modified.
Any container, storage unit, shed-like container or other
portable structure that can or is used for the storage of personal
property of any kind and which is located for such purposes outside
an enclosed building other than an accessory building or shed complying
with all building codes and land use requirements.
Any publicly owned open area; including, but not limited
to, the following: parks, playgrounds, forest preserves, waterways,
parkways, and streets.
The deleterious and harmful effects of all ionizing radiation,
which shall include all radiation capable of producing ions in their
passage through matter. Such radiations shall include, but are not
limited to, electromagnetic radiations such as x-rays and gamma rays
and particulate radiations such as electrons or beta particles, protons,
neutrons, and alpha particles.
A strip of land containing railroad tracks and auxiliary
facilities for track operation, but not including freight depots or
stations, loading platforms, train sheds, warehouses, car or locomotive
shops, or car yards.
All waste products resulting from human habitation, except
sewage.
A building or group of buildings in which are located facilities
for scientific research investigation, testing, or experimentation
but not facilities for the manufacture or sale of products, except
as incidental to the main purpose of the laboratory.
Those off-street parking spaces allocated for temporary standing
of automobiles awaiting entrance to a particular establishment.
That portion of a street which is used or intended to be
used for the travel of motor vehicles.
The minimum horizontal distance between a street line and
the nearest wall of a building, or side of a structure facing such
street line, or edge of the area of operation of a principal use when
no building or structure is involved.
When 40% or more of the lots fronting on one side of a street
within a block are improved, the existing setbacks of such improved
lots shall be the "established setback" for determining the depth
of the required front yards for the remainder of the lots along such
street frontage, as regulated in this chapter.
The visible discharge from a chimney, stack, vent, exhaust,
or combustion process which is made up of particulate matter.
A building or structure which is located on a lot on which
a dwelling is located, and which is designed, arranged, used, or intended
to be used for housing horses for the private use of occupants of
the dwelling, but in no event for hire.
A building where horses are kept for remuneration, hire,
or sale.
A structure for the display and sale of only farm products
which are produced on the premises.
That portion of a building, other than a cellar, included
between the surface of any floor and the surface of the floor next
above it, or, if there is no floor above it, then the space between
the floor and the ceiling next above it. The floor of a story may
split levels, provided that there is not more than a four-foot difference
in elevation between the different levels of the floor. A basement
shall be counted as a story, except when used for storage, garages
for use of occupants of a building or other facilities common to the
rest of the building. A mezzanine floor shall be counted as a story
when it covers over 1/3 of the area of the floor next below it, or
if the vertical distance from the floor next below it to the floor
next above it is 24 feet or more.
A public or private right-of-way or easement which is designated
as a permanent right-of-way easement for common use as the primary
means of vehicular access to properties abutting on it.
The street right-of-way line abutting a property line of
a lot.
All of the property fronting on one side of a street between
two intersecting streets, or in the case of a dead-end street, all
of the property along one side of the street between an intersecting
street and the end of such dead-end street.
Any change in the supporting members of a building or structure
such as bearing walls, columns, beams, or girders, or any substantial
change in the roof or in the exterior walls, excepting such repair
or replacement as may be required for the safety of the building or
structure.
Anything constructed or erected, the use of which requires
more or less permanent location on the ground or attachment to something
having a permanent location on the ground, including, but without
limiting the generality of the foregoing, advertising signs, back
stops for tennis courts, and pergolas.
A business establishment where liquors are sold to be consumed
on the premises, but not including restaurants where the principal
business is the serving of food.
A structures that is permitted within a zoning district without
any foundation or footing and that is removed when the designated
time period, activity, or use for which the temporary structure was
erected has ceased. The definition includes, but is not limited to,
those structures that utilize canvas, plastic or similar fabrics of
limited durability.
Existing detached nonconforming carport-type structures and
temporary structures shall be brought into conformance within 18 months
of the effective date of this chapter.
A building which contains a single dwelling unit and in which
meals or lodging, or both, are provided or offered to transient guests
for compensation; does not include a hotel, apartment hotel, or motel.
A parcel or tract or land containing facilities for locating
two or more travel trailers or mobile homes, and for use only by transients
remaining fewer than three months, whether or not a charge is made.
An open sales lot in which automobiles or unoccupied trailers are
parked for the purposes of inspection or sale is not included in a
tourist park.
Those materials which are capable of causing injury to living
organisms by chemical means.
Any vehicle or portable structure constructed so as to permit
occupancy thereof for lodging or dwelling purposes or for use as an
accessory building or structure in the conduct of business, trade,
or occupation, and which may be used as a conveyance on streets and
highways, by its own or other motive power.
A trailer designed and constructed for temporary dwelling
purposes which does not contain certain built-in sanitary facilities
and has a gross floor area of less than 130 square feet.
A trailer designed and constructed to be used as temporary
dwelling for travel, recreational and vacation purposes which may
contain cooking sanitary and electrical facilities, and has a gross
floor area of 130 feet or more, but less than 240 square feet.
Permanently reserved open space which is provided as required
by this chapter for the use of residents of dwellings.
The purpose or activity for which the land, or a building
thereon, is designed, arranged, or intended, or for which it is occupied
or maintained, and shall include any manner of performance of such
activity with respect to the performance standards of this chapter.
A use which is incidental to the dominant use of the premises.
A use that has unusual operational, physical, or other characteristics
that may be different from those of the predominant permitted uses
in a district, but which is a use that complements and is otherwise,
or can be made, compatible with the intended overall development within
a district. Compliance with special standards not necessarily applicable
to other permitted or conditional uses in the district shall be required
as regulated in this chapter.
The use of any building, structure, or land that conforms
with all of the regulations of this chapter or any amendment hereto
and which conforms with all of the codes, ordinances, and other legal
requirements existing at the time of the enactment of this chapter
or any amendment thereto, for the structure or land that is being
examined.
See "nonconforming use."
Any use which is or may be lawfully established in a particular
district or districts, provided it conforms with all requirements,
regulations and, when applicable, performance standards of this chapter
for the district in which such use is located.
The dominant use of land or buildings as distinguished from
a subordinate or accessory use.
A machine for dispensing merchandise or services designed
to be operated by the customer.
The periodic displacement, measured in inches, of earth at
a designated frequency, cycles per second.
An open area on a lot which is unobstructed from its lowest
level to the sky, except as otherwise provided in this chapter.
A line in a lot that is parallel to the lot line along which
the applicable yard extends and which is not nearer to such lot line
at any point than the required depth or width of the applicable yard.
A building, structure, or other obstruction shall not encroach into
the area between the yard line and such adjacent lot line, except
for such permitted obstructions in yards as are set forth in this
chapter.
A yard which is bounded by the side lot lines, front lot
line, and the front yard line.
A side yard which adjoins another lot or an alley separating
such side yard from another lot.
A yard which is bounded by side lot lines, the rear lot line,
and the rear yard line.
A yard which is bounded by the rear yard line, front yard
line, side yard line, and side lot line.
A yard which is bounded by the front lot line, side yard
adjoining a street line, and rear lot line.
The Mendota, Illinois Zoning Board of Appeals.
The Zoning District Map of the City of Mendota, Illinois.
The districts into which the City of Mendota, Illinois has
been divided for zoning regulations and requirements as set forth
on the Zoning District Map.
