The “HI” Heavy Industrial District is intended for the purpose of allowing basic or primary industries which are generally not compatible with residential and/or commercial activity. · Certain extremely obnoxious or hazardous uses will require special permission to locate in this district.

In District “HI”, no building or land shall be used and no building or structure shall be erected, altered or enlarged, which is arranged, intended, or designed for other than one of the uses listed in section 1903.

(1)   Animal hospitals or clinics.

(2)   Auto sales and repair.

(3)   Bottling works.

(4)   Blacksmith and welding shops.

(5)   Building materials, storage and sales.

(6)   Carpenter, cabinet, plumbing and sheet metal shops.

(7)   Contractor's office and equipment storage yard.

(8)   Dog kennels.

(9)   Dry cleaning and laundry plants.

(10) Feed and seed stores.

(11) Frozen food lockers.

(12) Grain elevators.

(13) Greenhouses and nurseries, retail and wholesale.

(14) Lumber yards.

(15) Machinery sales and storage lots.

(16) Manufacturing, processing or fabrication establishments which are not noxious or offensive by reason of vibration, noise, dust, fumes, gas, odor or smoke.

(17) Mobile home manufacture, sales, and storage

(18) Motor vehicle and farm implement sales and storage.

(19) Poultry storage or slaughtering.

(20) Public utility and public service uses.

(21) Radiator repair shops.

(22) Restaurants.

(23) Service stations.

(24) Storage yards providing the storage yard is completely enclosed with a six foot fence or wall.

(25) Truck and rail terminals.

(26) Upholstering shops.

(27) Warehouses or storage houses.

(28) Wholesale houses.

(29) The following uses of land may be allowed in this district by special use permit when submitted, reviewed and approved by the board of zoning appeals.

(a)   Automobile wrecking yards, junk yards and scrap processing yards; when the yard is completely enclosed with six foot solid fence and no junk or scrap is stored outside the fence or wall, subject, however, to the restrictions in the article on the board of zoning appeals.

(b)   Petroleum and natural gas refining and processing.

(c)   Stockyards and slaughter houses.

(d)   Ready-mix concrete and asphalt mix plants.

(e)   Storage of bulk oil, gas and explosives.

(f)   Other uses which may be noxious or offensive by reason of the emission of odor, dust, smoke, gas, noise or vibration.

(1)   A building, structure or use allowed in this district may occupy all that portion of a lot except for the area required for off-street parking, off-street loading and unloading and their access roads and/or arterial or collector streets in Article 21.

(2)   In the case where the required off-street parking and/or loading and unloading will be provided within the building or structure, then the building or structure may cover the entire lot except as required for arterial and/or collector streets in Article 21.

(1)   When a building or structure is within 150 feet of a residential district zone, the building or structure shall not exceed 45 feet in height.

(2)   When a building or structure is more than 150 feet from a residential district zone, the building or structure shall not exceed 60 feet in height if not in conflict with airport approach zones.

(1)   Front Yard: No front yard shall be required for uses permitted in this district, except as required for arterial or collector streets in Article 21.

(2)   side Yard and Rear Yard: No side yard or rear yard shall be required for uses in this district except where such use abuts a residential district zone, in which case there shall be required 15 feet of side and/or rear yard on the side of the lot and/or on the rear of the lot which abuts the residential district; the 15 feet shall contain a fence or wall and a shrub border to screen residential zoned property from the proposed use. The wall and shrub border shall be adequately maintained by the property owner.

(3)   Rear Yard: No rear yard shall be required in the district except where such rear yard abuts a residential district zone, in which case there shall be required 15 feet of rear yard.