For the purpose of this chapter, the following terms have or include the following meanings:
APPROVAL: Formal, written consent by the City Council, or authorized representative of the City.
BEST MANAGEMENT PRACTICES (BMPs): Schedules of activities, prohibitions of practice, maintenance procedures, and other management practices to prevent or reduce pollution of waters of the United States. Common BMPs are described in the "Clive Stormwater Manual", "Iowa Stormwater Management Manual", and the "Statewide Urban Design And Specifications Manual" ("SUDAS"). Those BMPs covered within those manuals are not meant to be a comprehensive list of acceptable BMPs.
CONSTRUCTION ACTIVITY: Any clearing, excavation, filling or grading activity affecting more than five hundred (500) square feet of land.
EROSION: The wearing away of ground surface as a result of the movement of wind, water and/or ice.
EXCAVATE: The mechanical removal of soil or ground cover, by which organic matter, earth, sand, gravel, rock, trees, vegetation or other ground cover is cleared, graded, cut into, dug, quarried, uncovered, removed, displaced, relocated or moved, and shall include the conditions resulting therefrom.
FILL: The depositing of soil by artificial means.
FINAL STABILIZATION: All construction activity at the site has been completed and a uniform perennial vegetative cover with a density of at least seventy percent (70%) has been established.
HORTICULTURAL ACTIVITY: The cultivation of a garden, orchard or nursery.
NATIONAL POLLUTANT DISCHARGE ELIMINATION SYSTEM (NPDES): The program for issuing, modifying, revoking, terminating, monitoring and enforcing permits under the clean water act (sections 301, 318, 402 and 405) and United States code of federal regulations title 33, sections 1317, 1328, 1342 and 1345.
PERMIT HOLDER: A person holding a grading permit which has neither expired nor been revoked.
PROPERTY: Land located in the city, whether or not improved with buildings or other structures.
PROPERTY OWNER: A person who, alone or with another person or other persons, holds the legal title to property; except, however, where property has been sold on contract to a person who has the present right to possess the property and the contract has been filed for record in the office of the county recorder, the person so purchasing the property, whether alone or with another person or other persons, is the "property owner" and the person retaining bare legal title to the property as security for the balance of the purchase price.
SEDIMENT CONTROL: Methods employed to prevent sediment from leaving the site. Sediment control practices include, but are not limited to: silt fences, sediment traps, earth dikes, drainage swales, check dams, subsurface drains, pipe slope drains, storm drain inlet protection and temporary/permanent sediment basins.
SEWER OR CITY SEWER: Includes all pipes, culverts, channels, manholes, curb gutters, ditches and other structures or courses, manmade or natural, forming a part of the storm sewer system of the city.
SIDEWALK OR CITY SIDEWALK: That portion of a public street or thoroughfare in the city intended for the use of pedestrians.
SOIL: Includes dirt, sand, loam, gravel, rock and other naturally occurring surficial deposits overlying bedrock.
STORMWATER: Stormwater runoff, snowmelt runoff and surface runoff and drainage.
STORMWATER POLLUTION PREVENTION PLAN (SWPPP): A plan as defined in the Iowa NPDES stormwater general permit.
STREET OR CITY STREET: All of a public street or thoroughfare in the city, including the unpaved portions of a public right of way generally referred to as "public parking" but exclusive of sidewalks. (Ord. 861, 10-5-2006; amd. Ord. 1010, 2-25-2016)