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PROPOSED 1/17/06 - JMA <br />EXCAVATION, GRADING and EROSION CONTROL <br />Purpose. <br />The purpose of this chapter is to safeguard life, limb, property and the public welfare by <br />regulating grading on private property. <br />Scope. <br />This chapter sets forth rules and regulations to control excavation, grading and earthwork <br />construction, including fills and embankments; establishes the administrative procedure <br />for issuance of permits; and provides for review of plans and inspection of grading <br />construction. <br />Permits required. <br />No person shall do any grading without first having obtained a grading permit from the <br />city, except for the following: <br />A. Excavation, grading and filling necessary for approved development plans and the <br />construction of structures, sewage treatment systems, and driveways under validly <br />issued permits for these facilities do not require the issuance of a separate <br />excavation, grading, and filling permit. However, the excavation, grading and <br />filling standards in this section shall be incorporated into the issuance of permits <br />for development plans and for construction of structures, sewage treatment <br />systems, and driveways. <br />B. A permit is not required for incidental excavation, grading or filling for <br />landscaping projects, including but not limited to spreading black dirt three inches <br />to four inches in depth for seeding and sodding purposes and decorative rock <br />gardens. <br />C. An excavation below finished grade for basements and footings of a building, <br />retaining wall or other structure authorized by a valid building permit. This shall <br />not exempt the requirement for a permit for fill made with the material from such <br />excavation nor exempt any excavation having an unsupported height greater than <br />5 feet after the completion of such structure. <br />(a) Cemetery graves. <br />(b) Refuse disposal sites controlled by other regulations. <br />(c) Excavations for wells or tunnels or utilities. <br />(d) Mining, quarrying, excavating, processing, stockpiling of rock, sand, gravel, <br />aggregate or clay where established and provided for by law or ordinance. <br />This shall not exempt these types of activities from the special use permit <br />requirements set forth in portions of the City Code. <br />D. Exploratory excavations under the direction of soil engineers or engineering <br />geologists. <br />