Sec. 21-46. - Special grading and landscaping provisions.

The following provisions are intended to prevent flooding, creation of unsightly raw earth areas, erosion and stability problems, and to promote proper drainage and attractive appearance.

(a)

In order to keep all graded areas and cuts and fills to a minimum, to eliminate unsightly grading, and to preserve the natural appearance and beauty of the property as far as possible as well as to serve the other specified purposes of these special provisions, limitations may be placed on the size of areas to be graded or to be used for building pads, and on the size, height and angles of cut slopes and fill slopes and the shape thereof. In appropriate cases, retaining walls may be specified.

(b)

Submission for approval of planting plans or elements thereof on special treatment areas within a subdivision may be required, particularly in connection with proposed reshaping of sloping land. Reshaping of sloping land rather than mass "pad" grading of steep terrain may be permitted provided the resulting appearance is as natural as possible, adequate drainage is provided and the slopes are properly stabilized and foundation conditions will be sound. In all cases numerous and extensive steep cut and fill slopes shall be avoided and conditions imposed to eliminate such dangerous and unattractive grading.

(c)

Either drainage to the street on which the lots front, or acceptable artificial drainage facilities may be required wherever such drainage is necessary.

(d)

Sheet drainage between building sites may be permitted on lots twenty thousand square feet or more in net area where no appreciable damage is likely to be caused thereby.

(e)

Drainage facilities including but not limited to terraces, storm drains, roof gutters and downspouts, ground gutters and berms may be required.

(f)

The date when grading is to be commenced and the date when it is to be completed may be prescribed and grading operations may be prohibited during certain months because of anticipated seasonal weather conditions. In subdivisions being developed in successive units, grading and drainage requirements may be applied to any proposed units whether development is current or pending where necessary in order to protect units already graded or to protect the land in the ungraded units or adjoining land.

(g)

Lot line locations in relation to cut or fill slopes may be prescribed.

(h)

Minimum spaces between structures and the tops or toes of slopes may be prescribed.

(i)

In order to avoid detrimental effects to neighboring property, contour maps of appropriate portions of property adjacent to the subdivision may be required and conditions may be prescribed so that the grading will not detrimentally affect such adjacent property. This requirement shall not be imposed unless the right of entry is available to the subdivider or the county takes necessary steps to acquire and provide such right of entry for the subdivider.

(Ord. No. 1751, § 2)