A. General description. This district is intended to:
1. Reserve appropriately located areas for heavy industrial and related activities where the environmental impacts are of a different nature than in other commercial and industrial zones, and ensure the continuity of locations for industries that can operate on sites with minimum mutual adverse impact.
2. Provide opportunities for certain types of industrial uses to concentrate in mutually beneficial relationships to each other.
B. Primary uses permitted. Property and structures in the HI heavy industrial district shall be used for the following purposes:
1. Large scale or small scale contractor.
2. Manufacturing, fabricating, construction and construction trade-related activities, processing and warehousing which would not be compatible with a commercial, light industrial or residential environment.
3. Outdoor storage.
4. Public utility substations.
5. Publicly owned structure/facility/park.
6. Small scale solar energy conversion facility as an accessory to a primary use.
7. Retail Type 1 and 2 of goods manufactured onsite.
8. Residential use for watchmen or caretakers when employed on the premises.
9. Service and repair establishments.
10. Telecommunications facilities.
11. Veterinary clinics for domesticated animals including pet daycare and overnight pet stays, with or without outdoor kennels and runs.
12. Cannabis cultivation facilities.
13. Cannabis testing facilities.
14. Cannabis product manufacturing facilities.
15. Cannabis dispensaries.
C. Uses eligible for a conditional use permit. Conditional use permits may be granted to properties for the following land uses:
1. Extractive operations for sand, gravel, rock, minerals, and similar materials.
2. Processing facilities for food, beef, pork, fish, poultry, agricultural crops, timber, wood and similar raw materials.
3. Small wind energy systems (SWES).
4. Large scale solar energy conversion facility.
D. Area regulations.
1. Front setback. Twenty-five (25) feet.
2. Side setback. Twenty-five (25) feet.
3. Rear setback. Twenty-five (25) feet.
4. When the side or the rear of a lot is adjoining a residential district, a setback of no less than fifty (50) feet shall be required and no development other than vegetative cover shall be permitted within setback area.
5. Lot width. One hundred (100) feet except in cul-de-sac areas.
6. Minimum lot size. Fifteen thousand (15,000) square feet minimum.
7. Maximum lot coverage. Seventy-five (75) percent lot coverage.
E. Height regulations. As per adopted building code regulations; an applicant shall provide evidence that Black Hills Airport has been notified of structure height.
F. Minimum off-street parking and loading requirements. As regulated in Article V, Sections 3 and 5.
(Ord. No. 969, 8-18-03; Ord. No. 982, 5-21-04; Ord. No. 1030, 6-19-06; Ord. No. 1122, 8-16-10; Ord. No. 1296, 12-3-18; Ord. No. 1303, 12-2-19; Ord. No. 1345, 7-6-21; Ord. No. 1354, 10-18-21)