30.91E.230 Excavation.
"Excavation" means the mining or quarrying or other mechanical removal of sand, gravel, bedrock or precious metals including underground shaft operations, but excluding:
(1) Land disturbing activity for building construction where such construction is authorized by a valid building permit; or
(2) Tilling of soil for agricultural purposes; or
(3) Any excavation:
(a) Which does not alter a drainage course, and
(b) Which has less than two feet of mean average depth, or which does not create a cut slope greater than five feet in height and steeper than one and one-half horizontal to one vertical, and
(c) Located in an MR, LDMR, R-7200, R-8400, R-9600, R-12,500 or WFB zone, where the cubic yardage excavated from contiguous land under common ownership shall never exceed 500 cubic yards, and
(d) Located in any zone other than those listed in the preceding subsection, where the cubic yardage excavated from contiguous land under common ownership shall never exceed 2,000 cubic yards. The distinction between zones which is provided in this and the preceding subsections shall be observed notwithstanding cross-referencing between zones which may be found elsewhere in this title.
This definition applies only to chapters 30.22, 30.23, 30.25, 30.32C and 30.63B SCC. (Added by Amended Ord. 02-064, Dec. 9, 2002, Eff date Feb. 1, 2003; Amended by Amended Ord. 05-083, Dec. 21, 2005, Eff date Feb. 1, 2006; Amended by Amended Ord. 10-023, June 9, 2010, Eff date Sept. 30, 2010; Amended by Amended Ord. 15-034, Sept. 2, 2015, Eff date Nov. 1, 2015; Amended by Amended Ord. 21-060, Oct. 6, 2021, Eff date Oct. 22, 2021).