17.30.010 Purpose and intent.
This chapter is adopted to promote public safety and the general public welfare; to protect property against loss from erosion, earth movement and flooding; to maintain a superior community environment; to ensure the maximum preservation of the natural scenic character of major portions of the local jurisdiction by establishing minimum standards and requirements relating to land grading, excavations, and fills, and procedures by which these standards and requirements may be enforced. It is intended that this chapter be administered with the foregoing purpose in mind and specifically in an attempt 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, water courses, streets, and all other lands in the local jurisdiction are protected for erosion, earth movement or 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 such construction as unobtrusive in the natural terrain as possible;
4. Ensure, insofar as practicable, the maximum 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 local jurisdiction. (Ord. 111 §1, amended, 1985; Prior code §12-107-6(A))