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Home My WebLink About71.65 AN ORDINANCE OF THE cfrY OF SARATOGA AMENDING VAiii' US SECTIO IS IN ARTICLE 55 OF THE~j'?!~C1TY CODE CONCERNING EXCAVATION ~D GRADING :' ' :~! The City Council of the City of Saratoga hereby ordains as follows: SECTION h Paragraphs (a) and (b) of Section 16-55.040 in Article 16-55 of the City Code are amended to read as follows: ~' "(a) Two sets of grading plans and specificationS'. When required by the City Engineer, the plans and specifications shall be prepared and signed by a civil engineer or architect who is lic~ by the State to prepare such plans and specifications. ~ /: + :=.. (b) When required by the City Engineer, a soil engineering report and engineering geology report. Such reports Shall describe the geology of the site and shall include current data regarding. the nature, distribution and strength of existing soils, type and depth of foundation supports, allowable bea~{ng capacity for such support, together with conclusions and ~mmendations concerning slope stability and the effect of the geologic conditions~On the proposed development, as well as recommendations and conclusions for~g~ading procedures =and design criteria for corrective measures if any are necessary. Recommendations included in the reports and approved by the City Engineer shall be inCdrporated into ;the final grading pins and specifications." SECTION 2: Paragraph (a) of Section 16-55.070 in Article 16=55 0~ the City Code is amended to read as follows: ' ' ".~:: "' " "(a) For engineered grading, it shall be the responsibility of the civil engineer or architect who prepares the ap~oved gradiii~!'~'pl~h~.j~io ::i~corporate all recommendations from the soil engine~ri~'g and engineering"~eology'reports into the grading plan. He shall also be responsible: f0~' the profe~ional inspectiqp and approval of the grading within his area of technical specialty. This respoh~ibility shall include, but need not be limited!~to, inspection ankl approval as-to. the establishment of line, grade and drainage of the "deVelopment area. The civil engineer or architect shall act as the coordinating age~i{~in the event the need arises for liason between the other professiOnS; the contractor and the City. !The civil engineer or architect shall also be responsible for the pre~aii0n of reyised plans and the submission of as-graded plans upon completion of' ~he work. During grading all necessary reports, compaction data and soil enginb~ring~r~d engineering geology recommendations shall be submitted tO the civil engineer 0~:~a~chitect and the City Engineer by the soil engineer and the engineering geoi~ist."' .~"' ~:.!:. ·: -1- SECTION 3: Paragraph (c) of Section 16-55.070 in Article 16-55 of the City Code is amended to read as follows: "(e) The engineering geologist's area of responsibility shall include, but need not be limited to, professional inspection and approval of the adequacy of natural ground for receiving fills and the stability of cut slopes with respect to geological matters, and the need for subdrains or other ground water drainage devices. He shah report his findings to the soil engineer and the civil engineer or architect for engineering analysis." SECTION 4: Section 16-55.100 in Article 16-55 of the City Code is amended to read as follows: "$16-55.100 Notifieation of noneomplianee If, in the course of fulfilling their responsibility under this Article, the civil engineer or architect, the soil engineer, the engineering geologist or the testing agency finds that the work is not being done in conformanee with this Article or the approved grading plans, the diserepancies shall be reported immediately in writing to the person in charge of the grading work and to the City Engineer. Recommendations for corrective measures, if necessary, shah be submitted." SECTION 5: Section 16-55.110 in Article 16-55 of the City Code is amended to read as follows: "S16-55.110 Transfer of responsibility for approval If the civil engineer or architect, the soil engineer, the engineering geologist or the testing agency of record is changed during the course of the work, the work shah be stopped until the replacement has agreed to accept the responsibility within the area of his technical competence for approval upon completion of the work." SECTION 6: Paragraph (b) of Section 16-55.150 in Article 16-55 of the City Code is amended to read as follows: "(b) Fill slopes. Unless otherwise recommended in the approved soil engineering report, fills shah conform to the provisions of this Paragraph. AH compacted fills shah be inspected by a licensed soil engineer when required by the City Engineer. In the absence of an approved soil engineering report these provisions may be waived for minor fills not intended to support structures." SECTION 7: Paragraph (d) of Section 16-55.150 in Article 16-55 of the City Code is amended to read as follows: "(d) Preparation of ground. The ground surface shah be prepared to receive fill by removing vegetation, noncomplying fill, topsoil and other unsuitable materials, scarifying to provide a bond with the new fill, and where slopes are steeper than five to one and the height of fill is greater than five feet, by benching into sound bedrock or other competent material as determined by the soils -2- engineer. The bench under the toe of a fill on a slope steeper than five to one shah be at least ten feet wide. The area beyond the toe of fill shall be sloped for sheet overflow, or a paved dcain shall be provided. When fill is to be placed over a cut, the bench under the toe of fill shall be at least ten feet wide, but the cut must be made before placing fill and approved by the soils engineer and engineering geologist as a suitable foundation for fill. Unsuitable soil is soil which, in the opinion of the City Engineer, the soils engineer or the geologist, is not competent to support other soil or fill, to support structures or to satisfactorily perform the other functions for which the soil is intended." SECTION 8: Subparagraph (a)(1) of Section 16-55.200 in Article 16-55 of the City Code is amended to read as follows: "(1) An as-graded plan prepared by the civil engineer or architect, including original ground surface elevations, as-graded ground surface elevations, lot drainage patterns and locations and elevations of aH surface and subsurface drainage facilities. The civil engineer shall provide a certification that the work was done in accordance with the final approved grading plan." SECTION 9: If any section, subsection, sentence, clause or phrase of this Ordinance is for any reason held by a court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid or unconstitutional, such decision shall not affect the validity of the remaining portions of this Ordinance. The City Council of the City of Saratoga hereby declares that it would have passed this Ordinance and each section~ subsection, sentence, clause and phrase thereof, irrespective of the fact that one or more sections, subsections, sentences, clauses or phrases may be held invalid or unconstitutional. SECTION 10: This Ordinance shall be in full force and effect thirty days after its passage and adoption. The above and foregoing Ordinance was regularly introduced and after the waiting time required by law, was thereafter passed and adopted at a regular meeting of the City Council of the City of Saratoga held on the 5th day of July , 1989, by the following vote: AYES: Councilmembers Clevenger, Moyles, Peterson, Stutmnan and Mayor Anderson NOES: None ABSENT: NOne MAYOR ATTEST: ~ L~ERK~/, The above and foregoin is a true and correct ~ copy of Ord nance "q (,~ S"' which has been · publi heal accordbin to law. · '2 f -3- y er