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 village for the construction, erection or alteration of a structure or building.
CERTIFY or CERTIFICATION. Formally attesting that the specific inspections and tests where required have been performed, and that the tests comply with applicable requirements of this chapter.
CLEARING. Any activity which removes vegetative ground cover.
CUBIC YARDS. The amount of material in excavation and/or fill measured by the method of “average end areas”.
EROSION CONTROL PERMIT. A permit issued by the village for the construction or alteration of ground improvements and structures for the control of erosion, runoff and grading.
EXCAVATION. 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 and shall include the conditions resulting therefrom.
EXISTING GRADE. The vertical location of the existing ground surface prior to excavation or filling.
FILL. Any act by which earth, sand, gravel, rock or any other material is deposited, placed, replaced, pushed, dumped, pulled, transported or moved by humans to a new location and shall include the conditions resulting therefrom.
FINAL GRADE. The vertical location of the ground or pavement surface after the grading work is completed in accordance with the site development plan.
GRADING. Excavation or fill or any combination thereof and shall include the conditions resulting from any excavation or fill.
NATURAL DRAINAGE. Channels formed in the existing surface topography of the earth prior to changes made by unnatural causes.
PARCEL. All contiguous land in one ownership.
PERMITTEE. Any person to whom an erosion control permit is issued.
PERSON. Any individual, firm or corporation, public or private, the state and its agencies or political subdivisions, and the United States of America, its agencies and instrumentalities and any agent, servant, officer or employee of any of the foregoing.
REMOVAL. Cutting vegetation to the ground or stumps, complete extraction or killing by spraying.
SITE. A lot or parcel of land, or a contiguous combination thereof, where grading work is performed as a single unified operation.
SITE DEVELOPMENT. Altering terrain and/or vegetation and constructing improvements.
STREAM. Any river, creek, brook, branch, flowage, ravine or natural or human-made drainage way which has a definite bed and banks or shoreline, in or into which surface or groundwater flows, either perennially or intermittently.
STRIPPING. Any activity which removes the vegetation surface cover including tree removal, clearing and storage or removal of top soil.
VACANT. Land on which there are no structures or only structures which are secondary to the use or maintenance of the land itself.
VILLAGE. The Village of Elwood, Will County, Illinois.
WETLANDS. Areas that are inundated or saturated by surface water or groundwater at a frequency and duration sufficient to support, and that under normal circumstances do support, a prevalence of vegetation typically adapted for life in saturated soil conditions.
(Ord. 766, passed 10-20-2004)