For the purpose of this subchapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or require 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. That specific inspections and tests, where required, have been performed and that such tests comply with applicable requirements of this chapter.
CUBIC YARDS. The amount of material in excavation and/or fill measured by the method of average end areas.
EXCAVATION. Any act by which organic matter, earth, sand, gravel, rock or other similar material is cut into, dug, quarried, uncovered, removed, displaced, relocated or bulldozed, and includes 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 other material is deposited, placed, replaced, pushed, dumped, pulled, transported or moved by man to a new location, and includes conditions resulting therefrom.
GRADING. Excavation or fill or any combination thereof, and includes conditions resulting therefrom.
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 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 driveways.
VACANT. Land on which there are no structures or only structures which are secondary to the use or maintenance of the land itself.
(2000 Code, § 15.44.030)