Any person, firm, corporation, governmental body, or other entity wishing to remove topsoil cut trees, engage in tree thinning or tree clearing, remove trees and other vegetation, loam, sand, gravel, rock, stone, clay and other similar substances from land located in any area or place in the City, for the purpose of building, erecting, constructing, reconstructing, enlarging, changing, or maintaining any utility building, plant, disposal system, water treatment plant or sanitary sewage collection system shall prior to commencing or continuing such operation file with the City Engineer, a written application for permission to carry out such operations, which application shall contain the following information:
(a) The name and address of the applicant and the name and the address of the owner of land if it is different from that of the applicant.
(b) A description of all land that will be utilized or affected, with boundaries marked by metes and bounds.
(c) A map of the land, showing its location and dimensions, indicating what part or parts thereof on which it is desired to conduct such operations, shall accompany the application. Such application shall also contain a statement that the applicant and the owner of the land will furnish a bond of not more that fifty thousand dollars ($50,000), included in the permit, if granted, for damage that may be occasioned to City property and streets by grading, excavating, and construction activity.
(d) All plans, diagrams and drawings for the proposed erection, construction, reconstruction, enlarging, alteration or maintaining of any utility building, plant, disposal system, water treatment plant or sanitary sewage collection system.
(e) The name and addresses of all persons, firms, corporations, or other entities who or which, it is contemplated, will do the actual building, erecting, constructing, reconstructing, altering or maintaining. If any such agreement, contract, lease or other arrangement is in writing, a copy thereof, must be attached to the application; if such is not in writing, that statement must be made in the application, and a brief description of any agreements or oral agreements that exist must be made.
(f) The name and address of all contagious and/or adjacent land owners.
(g) A complete description of all property that will be utilized for every phase of the project including accurate maps of all pipelines or conduits, pumping stations and force mains, and all other constructions, devices, appurtenances and facilities used for collecting water born sewage, industrial waste, or other wastes to a point of disposal or treatment.
(h) A legal description of all property lying within the City showing where all pipelines or conduits, pumping stations, and force mains, lie and all other constructions, devices and appurtenances that are used for collecting and conducting water born sewage, industrial wastes, or other wastes to a point of disposal or treatment.
(i) If a county owned sanitary sewage collection system will be utilized for disposal of sanitary sewage, the plans, drawings, architectural designs, and/or the facilities must be reviewed by and must be in compliance with the Summit County Department of Environmental Services Standards and Specifications.
(1) The City may require that the plan be reviewed by an independent engineer to insure that noxious odors will not be emitted from such plans and to insure that the sanitary sewage collection system is in compliance with the Summit County Department of Environmental Services Standards and Specifications, and that the plans will not result in destruction of the roads within the City. The costs for the review and inspection by an independent engineer shall be borne by the applicant.
(j) All permits from the Summit County Department of Environmental Services.
(k) All permits required by the Environmental Protection Agency. If applicable, all permits required by the Army Corp. of Engineers. Any and all other permits that may be required from any federal, state, or local governmental or private agency.
(l) All deeds, easements, restrictions, and/or agreements involving restrictions by previous land owners that may apply to the properties and all agreements between developers and/or land owners and/or previous developers with any governmental agencies, including the Ohio EPA and United States EPA.
(Ord. 10-1993. Passed 9-14-93.)