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Unless specifically defined below, words and phrases used in this chapter shall be interpreted so as to give them the meaning they have in common usage and to give this chapter its most reasonable application.

City: The City of Show Low administration, the city manager or his designated representative.

Development: Any man-made change to improved or unimproved real estate, including but not limited to the construction of buildings or other structures, sewers, streets or other structures or facilities, mining, dredging, paving, filling or grading in amounts greater than ten (10) cubic yards on any lot or excavation, and any other activity that results in the removal of more than ten (10) percent of the existing vegetation on the individual parcel.

Development site: Any lot or lots on any part of which development is taking place.

Disturb: Man-made changes to the existing physical status of the land that are made in connection with development.

Emergency: Any man-made or natural event or circumstance causing or threatening loss of life, injury to person or property, and includes, but is not limited to, fire, explosion, flood, severe weather, drought, earthquake, volcanic activity, spills or releases of oil or hazardous material, contamination, utility or transportation disruptions, and disease.

Erosion: The movement of soil particles resulting from actions of water, wind or mechanical means.

Excavation: Any act of development by which soil or rock is cut into, dug, quarried, uncovered, removed, displaced, exposed or relocated.

Fill: Any material such as, but not limited to, sand, gravel, soil, rock or gravel that is placed for the purposes of development or redevelopment.

Owner: Any party, including an owner, part owner or agent, that has a legal interest in a piece of real property upon which development is proposed.

Sediment: Any soil, sand, dirt, dust, mud, rock, gravel, refuse or any other organic or inorganic material that is in suspension, is transported, has been moved or is likely to be moved by erosion.

Utility facilities: Buildings, structures or any constructed portion of a system which provides for the production, transmission, conveyance, delivery or furnishing of services including, but not limited to, heat, light, water, power, natural gas, sanitary sewer, storm water, telephone and cable television. Utility facilities do not include storm water pre-treatment facilities.

Visible or measurable erosion: Includes, but is not limited to:

(1) Any visible deposit of mud, dirt, sediment or similar material on public or private streets, adjacent property, or onto the storm and surface water system, either by direct deposit, dropping discharge, or as a result of the action of erosion.

(2) Evidence of concentrated flows of water over bare soils; turbid or sediment-laden flows; or evidence of on-site erosion such as rivulets on bare soil slopes, where the flow of water is not filtered or captured on the site.

(3) Earth slides, mud flows, earth sloughing, rills or rivulets, or other earth movement that leaves the property. (Ord. No. 2008-14, § 1, 10-21-08. 1976 Code § 20-1-2)