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Cross references—Licenses and miscellaneous business regulations, Ch. 12; grading permits, etc., under Stony Creek/Saw Mill Run Watershed Stormwater Management Ordinance, App. E.
[Ord. No. 651, § 4, 7-10-1972]
No person shall commence or perform any grading, excavation, fill, topsoil removal or removal of vegetative cover without first having obtained a grading permit from the Township engineer. A separate grading permit shall be required for each site. One permit may cover both an excavation and any fill made on the same lot. A grading permit will not be required, however, in the following situations, but in all other respects, the provisions of this article, shall apply:
(1) 
An excavation which does not exceed twenty (20) cubic yards total material removed.
(2) 
A fill which does not exceed forty (40) cubic yards of material deposited.
(3) 
An excavation below finished grade for basements and footings of a single family residence, swimming pool, or underground structure authorized by building permit, excavation for a driveway or walk between a single family residence site and street, or the grading of such excavated materials into the site from which excavated and including the provision of additional topsoil as may be required for seedbed preparation.
[Ord. No. 651, § 5, 7-10-1972]
Every applicant for a grading permit shall file a written application therefor with the Township engineer. Such application shall:
(a) 
Describe the land on which the proposed work is to be done, by lot, block, tract or street address or similar description which will readily identify and definitely locate the proposed work.
(b) 
Be accompanied by plans and specifications prepared by a registered engineer or surveyor, including: A contour map showing the present contours of the land and the proposed grading; a plot plan showing the location of grading, boundaries, lot lines, neighboring streets and alleys, buildings, trees over ten (10) inches in diameter measured at a point two (2) feet above the ground, and sufficient dimensions and other data to show the location of all work; description of the type and classification of the soil; details and location of any proposed drainage structures and pipes, walls and cribbing; nature of fill material and such other information as the Township engineer may require to carry out the purposes of this article. Cross section plans indicating existing and proposed elevations; sections shall be of intervals of thirty (30) feet and where extreme changes in grade exist or are anticipated; end area calculations shall be submitted and totalized. The amount of cut and fill between stations and for the entire project shall be submitted and calculated to the cubic yard. All plans shall be dated and bear the name of:
(1) 
Person who prepared the same.
(2) 
The applicant.
(3) 
The owner of the land.
Plans shall be submitted in triplicate: The contour map, the plot plan and the cross section.
(c) 
Include a plan to be approved by the Township engineer for minimizing erosion and sedimentation in conformity with the requirements of division 3 of this article.
(d) 
State the estimated dates for the starting and completion of the grading work.
(e) 
State the purpose for which the grading application is filed.
[Ord. No. 651, § 6, 7-10-1972; Ord. No. 1025, § 1, 2-12-1990; Ord. No. 1074, § 1, 6-10-1991; Ord. No. 1325, § 1, 4-10-2000; Ord. No. 1416, § 1, 1-12-2004]
Before issuing a grading permit, the applicant shall pay the Township permit and inspection fees based upon a schedule of such permit and inspection fees established from time to time by resolution of Township Council.
[Ord. No. 651, § 8, 7-10-1972]
The Township Engineer shall deny a grading permit where, in his opinion, the work as proposed by the applicant may endanger any property or any street or alley or fails to meet Township standards. In determining whether the proposed work is likely to endanger any property or streets or alleys or create hazardous conditions, the Township engineer shall give due consideration to possible saturation by rains, earth movements, runoff or surface waters and subsurface conditions such as the stratification and faulting of rock, and the nature and type of the soil or rock.
[Ord. No. 651, § 7, 7-10-1972]
Every grading permit shall expire by limitation and become null and void if the work authorized by such permit has not been commenced within six months or is not completed within one year from the date of issue, the Township engineer may, if the permit holder presents satisfactory evidence that unusual difficulties have prevented work being started or completed within the specified time limits, grant reasonable extensions of time, and not to exceed three month extensions, and provided the application for extension of time is made before the date of expiration of the permit.