For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
BUILDING PERMIT. A permit issued by the city for the construction, erection or alteration of a structure or building.
CERTIFY or CERTIFICATION. The specific inspections and tests, where required, have been performed, and the tests comply with the applicable requirements of this chapter.
CUBIC YARDS. The amount of material in excavation or fill measured by the method of “average end areas”.
EXCAVATIONS. Any act by which organic matter, earth, sand, gravel, rock or any other similar material is cut into, dug, quarried, uncovered, removed, displaced, relocated or bulldozed. The term includes the conditions resulting from any excavation or fill.
LAND SURVEYOR. A registered surveyor of the state.
PARCEL. All contiguous land in one ownership.
PERMITTEE. Any person to whom a site development permit is issued.
REMOVAL. Cutting vegetation to the ground or stumps, complete extraction or lolling by spraying.
SITE. A lot or parcel of land or a contiguous combination where grading work is performed as a single unified operation.
SITE DEVELOPMENT. Altering terrain or vegetation and constructing driveways.
VACANT. Land on which there are no structures or only structures which are secondary to the use or maintenance of the land itself.
(Prior Code, § 156.02) (Ord. 2419, passed 10-24-1978)