§ 46-66. Definitions.  


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  • The following words, terms and phrases, when used in this article, shall have the meanings ascribed to them in this section, except where the context clearly indicates a different meaning:

    Development means any manmade change to improved or unimproved real estate, including, but not limited to, buildings or other structures, mining, dredging, filling, grading, paving, excavating, or drilling operations.

    Earth change means any excavating, grading, regrading, landfilling, berming, or diking of land.

    Natural means the cover and topography of land before any manmade changes; or, in areas where there have already been manmade modifications, the state of the area and topography of land at the effective date of the ordinance from which this article derives.

(Code 1996, § 151.30)

Cross reference

Definitions generally, § 1-2.