The hillside overlay zone applies to all areas of the city where the slope of the land is 20 percent or greater. The intent of the zone is to establish special criteria and procedures for development in a way that the potential for property damage and adverse impacts on the natural environment are reduced, so that safe, orderly and beneficial development in the zone results. For the purposes of this section, "development" is defined as any alteration of the land surface greater than two feet in depth by construction of any kind, including hand or machine grading, filling, cutting and other earth moving activities, and/or construction of a building, road, driveway, parking area or other structure. Normal landscaping activities are not regulated by this section.
(Ord. 290 § 3(3.120(1)), 2006)