§ 102-6. Permits and fees.

A. 

Permit required. Except as exempted by § 102-16, no person shall do any grading, stripping, excavating or filling, or undertake any earth change, which disturbs one or more acres of land, or if the earth change is within 500 feet of a lake or stream of the state, unless he or she has a valid grading permit issued by the County of Wayne. Anything less than one acre must be referred to the Building Department.

B. 

Application. A separate application shall be required for each grading permit. Plans, specifications and timing schedules shall be submitted with each application for a grading permit. The plans shall be prepared or approved by a professional engineer or architect. Wayne County may waive this requirement if the work entails little hazard to the adjacent property and does not include the construction of a fill upon which a structure may be erected.

C. 

Plans and specifications. The plans and specifications accompanying the grading permit application shall contain the following data:

(1) 

A vicinity sketch indicating the site location as well as the adjacent properties within 500 feet of the site boundaries;

(2) 

A boundary line survey of the site on which the work is to be performed; and

(3) 

A plan of the site showing:

(a) 

The name, address and telephone number of the landowner, developer and petitioner;

(b) 

A timing schedule indicating the anticipated starting and completion dates of the development's construction sequence and the time of exposure of each area prior to the completion of effective erosion and sediment control measures;

(c) 

A certified statement of the quantity of excavation and fill involved;

(d) 

Existing topography at a maximum of one-foot contour intervals or noted elevations on a grid not exceeding 100 feet;

(e) 

Proposed topography at a maximum of one-foot contour intervals or noted elevations on a grid not exceeding 100 feet;

(f) 

The size and location of any structure or natural feature on the site;

(g) 

The location of any structure or natural feature on the land adjacent to the site and within 50 feet of the site boundary line;

(h) 

The location of any proposed additional structures or development on the site;

(i) 

Elevations, dimensions, location, extent and slope of all proposed grading (including building and driveway grades);

(j) 

Topography, based on National Geodetic Vertical Datum (NGVD);

(k) 

The estimated total cost of required temporary and permanent soil erosion control measures;

(l) 

Plans of all drainage provisions, retaining walls, cribbing, planting, erosion control measures or other temporary or permanent soil erosion control measures to be constructed in connection with, or as a part of, the proposed work, together with a map showing the drainage area of land tributary to the site and the estimated runoff of the area served by drains; and

(m) 

Other information or data as may be required by the County of Wayne, such as a soil investigation report which shall include, but not be limited to, data regarding the nature, distribution and supporting ability of existing soils and rock on the site.

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Editor's Note: Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. III).

D. 

Fees. Fees shall be established, as part of the building permit fee, from time to time by resolution of Council.