A. The purpose of this chapter is to provide minimum standards to safeguard life and limb, protect property, limit erosion and the transportation of sediments, promote public welfare and the conservation of natural beauty by regulating and controlling the design, construction and maintenance of grading, whether excavation or fill, within the City.

B. These regulations shall apply to new excavations, fills, borrow pits, borrow areas and to alterations, changes, additions or repairs to existing excavations, fills, borrow pits and borrow areas. (Ord. 696 § 1 (part), 1983; Ord. 288 § 1B, 1962)