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A. Within right-of-way, easements or other real property of the City, city franchise holder, or other public agency, no person shall perform any work, development, excavation, or fill; or construct or alter streets, sidewalks, curbs, gutters, or utilities; or in any way tamper with pavement without first obtaining a permit from the city engineer.

B. No person shall cause or allow the following on private property or the public right-of-way without a current, valid permit issued under this ordinance by the city engineer:

1. Outside of a special flood hazard area, grading, excavation, fill, depositing, stockpiling or storage of soil, sand, gravel, crushed rock, demolition materials, recycled concrete, asphalt or other recycled demolition materials, or any combination thereof, in excess of 50 cubic yards in volume or over an area that exceeds 500 square feet;

2. Disturbance of the existing surface of the site, depositing debris, depositing, stockpiling or storage of materials, excavation or fill that will encroach on or alter a natural drainage channel or water course, or concentrate or accelerate drainage entering adjacent property or public right-of-way, with the exception of tilling of the soil for agricultural purposes, gardening and maintaining or upgrading existing landscaped areas that can be performed without violating any other provision of this subsection;

3. Demolition of structures, pavement and other site improvements, disturbance of the existing surface of the site, scraping the ground surface, multiple trips by vehicles over undisturbed ground, multiple-day parking of multiple construction vehicles on undisturbed ground, clearing, stripping or removal of trees, vegetation, groundcover or topsoil, grading, excavation, fill, depositing debris, depositing, stockpiling or storage of soil, sand, gravel, crushed rock, demolition materials, recycled concrete, asphalt or other recycled demolition materials, or construction staging, or any combination thereof, over an area that exceeds 500 square feet on private property, or removal of the vegetation, groundcover or any tree within the public right-of-way, with the exception of tilling of the soil for agricultural purposes, gardening and the planting, maintaining or upgrading of landscaped areas on a single-family residential lot that can be performed without violating any other provision of this subsection;

4. The construction, reconstruction, alteration, repair, or installation of a structure in any water course;

5. The construction of a private driveway, private road or parking lot on a lot;

6. Site development work by a public utility, public agency, or city franchise holder in a significant natural resource area.

C. A separate permit shall be required for each separate noncontiguous site. One permit may cover both an excavation and a fill on the same site. A permit for excavation on one site does not approve the disposal on another site.

D. A permit shall be required for any construction, storage, or development in an area of special flood hazard.

E. Demolition materials from existing buildings and site improvements shall be promptly removed from the site and not stored on site, except as provided in subsection F of this section.

F. The City may issue a permit under this ordinance for the stockpiling of demolition materials to be recycled that have a volume in excess of 50 cubic yards or occupy an area that exceeds 500 square feet. Such demolition materials shall not be stored in their raw or recycled form on site for more than 60 calendar days and shall be provided with dust controls and erosion controls in accordance with this ordinance and other City requirements. [BC 9.05.020, amended by Ordinance No. 3440, 4/2/85; amended by Ordinances No. 3487, 1/14/86, Ordinance No. 3564, 5/5/87, Ordinance No. 3887, 3/21/94, Ordinance No. 4249, 4/7/03, Ordinance No. 4744, 10/17/18]