When it is found necessary to grade a lot higher or lower finished grade than the natural grade of adjoining property on the sides and to the rear of such lot, it shall be incumbent upon the owner of the lot to get permission from the City Engineer to change to a higher or lower finished grade. It shall be further incumbent upon the owner of the lot to provide suitable retaining walls or other approved protection on his property to protect the adjacent property from the draining of surface waters and further to protect the adjacent property from caving of earth and to assist in the maintaining of the existing natural grade of such adjacent property.
(Ord. 2013-46. Passed 6-4-13.)