A. Authority: This chapter is enacted pursuant to title 10, Utah Code Annotated, 1953, as amended. This chapter is further enacted as an element of the Salt Lake City master plan.
B. Applicability: The provisions of this chapter shall apply to all site development within Salt Lake City; however, a permit shall be required only for those types of developments set forth in subsections 18.28.040A, "General Application", and 18.28.050A, "General Application", of this chapter.
C. Purpose: This title is adopted: to promote public safety and the general public welfare; to protect property against loss from erosion, earth movement, earthquake hazard, and flooding; to maintain a superior community environment; to provide for the continued orderly growth of the city to ensure maximum preservation of the natural scenic character of major portions of the city by establishing minimum standards and requirements relating to land grading, excavations, and fills; and to establish procedures by which these standards and requirements may be enforced. It is intended that this chapter be administered with the foregoing purposes in mind and specifically to:
1. Ensure that the development of each site occurs in a manner harmonious with adjacent lands so as to minimize problems of drainage, erosion, earth movement, and similar hazards;
2. Ensure that public lands and places, watercourses, streets, and all other lands in the city are protected from erosion, earth movement, and drainage hazards;
3. Ensure that the planning, design, and construction of all development will be done in a manner which provides maximum safety and human enjoyment, and, except where specifically intended otherwise, makes it as unobtrusive in the natural terrain as possible;
4. Ensure, insofar as practicable, the retention of natural vegetation to aid in protection against erosion, earth movement, and other hazards and to aid in preservation of the natural scenic qualities of the city; and
5. Ensure, insofar as Salt Lake City is located in an active seismic zone, that appropriate earthquake hazard mitigation measures are incorporated into the planning and execution of site development.
D. Identification Of Fault Hazards: Pending the completion by the Utah geological survey (UGS) of a fault hazard map for Salt Lake City, the planning director may rely upon the existing information available from UGS or other publicly or privately prepared geological reports to identify fault hazards.
E. Format: This chapter is designed to establish administrative and enforcement procedures and minimum standards applicable to site development activities according to the following categories:
1. Section 18.28.040 of this chapter governs site development associated with construction of individual buildings under authorized building permits;
2. Section 18.28.050 of this chapter governs site development not requiring permits under subsection E1 of this section. (Ord. 7-14, 2014)