The natural terrain of all proposed SUBDIVISION or LAND DEVELOPMENT tracts will be retained wherever possible. Cut and fill should be kept to a minimum necessary to achieve acceptable STREET grades, parking areas or building sites where no feasible alternative exists or where it will be used to enhance the site, such as berms or SWALES, which add visual interest or perform a function such as DRAINAGE or screening.  Topographic alterations shall be in accordance with Chapter 88, Grading and Excavating.

A.         Blasting operations using explosives are not permitted in conjunction with any grading or excavating activity, including, but not limited to, earthmoving or trenching operations.

Last Updated on September 29, 2008
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