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ORDINANCE NO. 15,833
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AN ORDINANCE AMENDING CHAPTER 29, ARTICLE
VI, LAND ALTERATION REGULATION, OF THE
LITTLE ROCK CITY CODE, 1988, BY MODIFYING
CONDITIONS WHICH REQUIRE AN EXCAVATION
PERMIT, MODIFYING GUIDELINES FOR
EXCAVATION.
BE IT ORDINANCE BY THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF THE CITY OF
LITTLE ROCK, ARKANSAS:
SECTION 1. Section 29 -1. DEFINITIONS shall be amended
to include the following:
"Undisturbed perimeter strip means a perimeter or
boundary strip around land areas which have been cleared,
cut or filled, which is required to remain in a natural
state including topography, trees and vegetation.
Enhancements such as additional landscaping or other
treatments may be used if approved by the City Engineer."
SECTION 2. Section 29 -186. PERMIT REQUIRED subsection
(c) shall be amended to read as follows:
"(c) Grading permits, which
building permit, shall
following activities:
may be obtained as part of a
be required for any of the
(1) A hillside cut or fill greater than fifteen
(15) feet vertical. If such a cut or fill is
greater than thirty (30) feet, the application
shall be reviewed by the City Engineer and approved
by the Planning Commission, prior to issuance of a
permit.
(2) Any construction activity where the total
volume of cut or fill is equal to or greater than
three thousand (3,000) cubic yards.
(3) Clearing of cutting of trees covering twenty -
five (25) percent or more of a tract, subject to
the following limits:
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(a) The area of clearing must exceed one (1)
acre in size before a grading permit is
required.
(b) Five (5) acres is the largest area of
clearing that can occur without a grading
permit, even if the area of clearing and
cutting is less than twenty -five (25) percent
of a tract.
(4) Grading, filling, hillside cutting, quarrying
construction or similar activities involving more
than five (5) acres of such activities."
SECTION 3. Section 29 -187. EXEMPTIONS shall be amended
by deleting subsection (3) and the serial restructuring of
the remaining numbered subsections accordingly.
SECTION 4. Section 29 -188 is retitle to read follows:
"Section 29 -188, CONTENTS OF GRADING AND DRAINAGE
PLANS"
SECTION 5. Subsection (a) item (7), shall be amended to
read as follows:
"(7) Seal and signature of a registered engineer,
architect, or landscape architect which certify
that the sketch grading and drainage plan complies
with this article. However, plans for areas less
than five (5) acres where cuts or fill are not
greater than fifteen (15) feet in height, or where
only tree clearing activities are to be undertaken,
may be prepared by a contractor or the property
owner."
SECTION 6. Section 29 -190. GRADING AND DRAINAGE PLAN
GUIDELINE subsection (1) shall be amended to read as
follows:
"(1) Limiting cuts or fills to fifteen (15) feet in
height. A series of smaller cuts with terraces,
reserving portions of natural vegetation and
providing areas for planting, shall be used where
feasible in situations where more than fifteen (15)
feet of cut or fill is needed. Terracing shall be
at a ratio of at least one (1) foot of horizontal
terrace for every one (1) foot of vertical height
up to a maximum of ten (10) feet."
SECTION 7. Section 29 -190.
GUIDELINES subsection (11) shall
follows:
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GRADING AND DRAINAGE PLAN
be amended to read as
"(11) Maintaining where feasible a perimeter strip,
undisturbed except for reasonable access, around
areas cleared of trees, the perimeter standard
being a twenty -five (25) foot strip. In addition,
a strip at least twenty -five (25) feet wide,
undisturbed except for reasonable access, shall be
provided where feasible along each side of a
stream with a ten (10) year storm with a flow
greater than one hundred fifty (150) cubic feet
per second. The twenty -five (25) foot strip shall
be measured from the top of the bank."
SECTION 8. Section 29 -190. GRADING AND DRAINAGE PLAN
GUIDELINES shall be amended by adding subsections (12), (13)
and (14) to read as follows:
"(12) Maintaining where feasible a perimeter strip,
undisturbed except for reasonable access, around
cuts or fills. The perimeter standard shall have
a width equal to the height of the cut or fill up
to a maximum width of twenty (20) feet. The total
height of a cut and /or fill in one (1) area of the
site shall be limited to a maximum of forty -five
(45) feet. The widths of these undisturbed areas
should be adjusted to maximize the preservation of
existing trees and may be reduced where structures
placed on the site substantially lessen the
visibility of the cut or fill from abutting
properties or street.
(13) Minimizing the risk of pedestrian and vehicular
traffic in the vicinity of a cut or fill by
locating cuts of fills away from likely traffic
and by the placement of handrails, guardrails,
fencing landscaping between traffic and the cuts
of fills.
(14) Additional landscape treatments must be provided
in accordance with the Landscape Ordinance of the
City of Little Rock."
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SECTION 9. Effective date. This ordinance shall be in
full force and effect sixty (60) days from and after its
passage.
PASSED: April 3, 1990
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SECTION 9. Effective date. This ordinance shall be in
full force and effect sixty (60) days from and after its
passage.
PASSED: April 3, 1990
ATTEST:
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CIT CLERK jA—W CZECH
IN � [L� • /
UFAMOMMMIMM f,