Watsonville Municipal Code Art. 2 Purpose, Intent, and Scope

The purpose and intent of this chapter is to safeguard life, health, safety, and the public welfare; to protect fish and wildlife, riparian corridors and habitats, domestic and industrial water supplies, and private and public property; and to otherwise protect the natural environment from the effects of flooding, accelerated erosion, and/or siltation by establishing minimum requirements for regulating excavating, grading, filling, erosion control, cut and fill slopes, and procedures by which such operations are controlled.

(§ 1, Ord. 538-81 C-M, eff. October 22, 1981)

This chapter sets forth guidelines, rules, regulations, and minimum standards to control all erosion, excavating, grading, maintenance, and cut and fill embankments. This chapter further requires the control of all existing and potential conditions of accelerated erosion establishes administrative procedures for the issuance of permits, provides for the approval of plans and inspections during construction and maintenance, and controls paving on private property which may be exempted under subsection (b) or (c) of Section 7-6.302 of Article 3 of this chapter.

(§ 1, Ord. 538-81 C-M, eff. October 22, 1981)