EL PASO COUNTY
LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE

Chapter IV - Section 23

PHID   Planned Heavy Industrial District

This district is established for the purpose of providing for manufacturing and industrial uses, accompanied by adequate parking, open space and buffering areas.

B.   PERMITTED PRINCIPAL USES

1.   All industrial and manufacturing uses except Uses Subject to Special Review, below 2.   Public Park & Open Space
3.   Tower, Private (See §35.11) #
4.   Vehicle and Boat Storage Yard

C.   USES SUBJECT TO SPECIAL REVIEW (SPECIAL USES)

  1.   Acid Manufacture
  2.   Automobile Storage Yard
  3.   Batch Plants
  4.   Cement & Asphalt Manufacture
  5.   Emergency Facility
  6.   Energy Production & Generation Facilities
  7.   Explosives Manufacture or Storage
  8.   Fertilizer Manufacture
  9.   Flammable Material Storage *17
10.   Fuel Sales & Storage (wholesale)
11.   Glue Manufacture
12.   Hazardous Material Storage
13.   Infectious Waste Transfer Facility   (see Chapter VI)
14.   Junk Yard   *13
15.   Livestock Feed Yard
16.   Livestock Sales Yard
17.   Metal Processing Plant
18.   Mineral Resource Extraction   (See §§35.8 and 35.13)
19.   Mineral Processing Plant
20.   Petroleum Refining
21.   Plaster of Paris Manufacture
22.   Rendering Plant
23.   Retail Sales *15
24.   Scrap Tire Recycling Facility   (See Chapter VI)
25.   Slaughterhouse
26.   Smelter
27.   Solid Waste Disposal Site & Facility   (See Chapter VI)
28.   Tannery
29.   Tower, Private (See §35.11) #
30.   Tower, Transmission (See §35.11)
31.   Trash Transfer Station   (See Chapter VI)

D.   ACCESSORY BUILDINGS AND USES

1.   Refer to Section 35.1
2.   Dwelling, Single Family, or Mobile Home for a Caretaker conducted in conjunc-tion with Principal (Primary) Use

E.   DEVELOPMENT REQUIREMENTS

1.   Those uses containing an asterisk (*), refer to the corresponding number in Section 35.5 for additional development requirements.

2.   Those uses identified with a pound sign (#) are secondary uses to be conducted in conjunction with Principal (Primary) Uses.

3.   Minimum zone district area:    Forty (40) acres unless the district is an extension of an industrial district.

4.   Minimum lot area:    One (1) acre. There is no minimum lot size for individual units within a building to be sold or conveyed in accordance with El Paso County Subdivision Regulations. The building, however, shall be located on a minimum one (1) acre lot.

5.   Maximum structural height:    Shall be determined by the following formula: A plane with a pitch of two (2) feet horizontal to one (1) foot vertical beginning twenty-five (25) feet above all property lines using the mean property line elevations as the datum.



6.   Setback requirements:

a.   Front, side, and rear:    Thirty (30) feet.

b.   Minimum building setback from any adjoining residential zone district setback is two hundred (200) feet.

Setbacks established herein do not apply to individual units within a building that is to be sold or conveyed in accordance with El Paso County Subdivision Regulations. Any project developed in this fashion, the setbacks required by this paragraph E. of this section shall only apply to the perimeter of the building.

7.   Vehicle/boat storage shall be subject to additional development requirements contained in Sections 35.5, 18 a. 3) and 4), and b. 1) and 2); and 35.12, L.

F.   PLOT PLAN

A plot plan conforming to the requirements of Section 37 shall be approved by the Development Services Director prior to the Development Services Department's authorization for the issuance of any building permits.

G.   MAINTENANCE PLAN

A maintenance plan conforming to the requirements of Section 38 shall be approved by the Development Services Director prior to the Development Services Department's authorization for the issuance of any building permits, if applicable.

H.   GENERAL DEVELOPMENT REGULATIONS

1.   Off-street Parking - Refer to Section 35.3
2.   Advertising Devices - Refer to Section 35.4
3.   Landscaping Requirements - Refer to Section 35.12

I.   PLATTING

No building permits shall be applied for or granted on any portion of property which is currently zoned PHID (Planned Heavy Industrial) District until and unless the property is platted in accordance with the El Paso County Land Development Code, as amended, unless otherwise exempted by Statute.

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