Sacramento County Zoning Code § 902-15 Development

Any activity that will result in any man-made change to improved or unimproved real estate, including but not limited to buildings or other structures, mining, storage of materials, dredging, filling, grading, paving, excavation, or drilling operations. Levee maintenance which results or causes channel encroachments or a rise of the base flood elevation, or results or causes the raising of the levee elevation in those sections where the elevation of the levee was a controlling factor for establishing the base flood elevation on either side of the levee shall be considered development. Normal Farming Activities (as herein defined) shall not be considered development.