Each adjacent owner is entitled to the lateral and subjacent support which his land receives from the adjoining land, subject to the right of the owner of the adjoining land to make proper and usual excavations on the same for purpose of construction or improvement, under the following conditions:
(A) Any owner of land or his lessee intending to permit or to make an excavation greater than ten feet in depth within ten feet of his property lines shall give reasonable notice to the owner or owners of land abutting the property lines affected by such excavation, stating the depth for which such excavation is intended to be made and when the excavation will begin.
(B) In making any excavation reasonable care and skill shall be used and reasonable precautions taken that the soil of adjoining property will not cave in or settle to the detriment of any building or other structure which may be thereon.
(C) No grading shall be approved which physically prevents access to any parcel.
(Ord. 1449, passed 10-19-05)