Section 20.30.030 Definitions.

1. “ Grading” shall mean excavation or fill or any combination thereof.

2. “ Excavation” shall mean any act by which earth, sand, gravel, rock or any other similar material is cut into, dug, quarried, uncovered, removed, displaced or relocated.

3. “ Fill” shall mean any act by which earth, sand, gravel, rock or any other similar material is deposited, placed, pushed, pulled or transported to a place other than the place from which it was excavated.

4. “ Site” shall mean lot, tract, project, or area of a single owner or several owners.

5. “ Public nuisance” means whatever is injurious to health, indecent, or offensive to the senses, or an obstruction to the free use of property, so as essentially to interfere with the comfortable enjoyment of life or property.

6. “ Slope” means the numerical ratio of a horizontal length to a vertical height.

7. "Borrow pit" shall mean any place or premises where excavation of dirt, soil, sand, gravel, or other material occurs on the borrow site for use at another location irrespective of whether for consideration or not for consideration. For the purpose of this title, material removed incidental to onsite grading or building construction shall not qualify as a borrow pit.

8. “Reclamation plan” means a document that outlines combined process of land treatment that minimizes water degradation, air pollution, damage to aquatic or wildlife habitat, flooding, erosion, and other adverse effects from grading and/or borrow pits. The process may extend to surrounding affected lands, and may require backfilling, grading, resoiling, revegetation, soil compaction, stabilization, or other measures. (Ord. 2006-0908, 2005-1069; 2000-9159; 88/T-6762)