§ 3-5-92. Definitions.

Unless specifically defined below, words or phrases used in this article shall be ascribed a meaning which they have in common usage and which gives this article its most reasonable application.

Comprehensive plan shall mean the County Comprehensive Plan adopted pursuant to the requirements of F.S. Ch. 163.

Critical area stabilization shall mean the stabilization of exposed soil in highly erodible or critically eroding areas.

Denuded shall mean stripped of vegetation and other natural cover, thereby increasing susceptibility to soil erosion.

Development or development activity shall mean:

(1)

Clearing, scraping or removing the vegetation from a site; or

(2)

Adding, removing, exposing, excavation, leveling, grading, digging, borrowing, dumping, piling, dredging, or otherwise significantly disturbing the soils of a site.

Development site shall mean any site upon which development activities take place.

Erosion shall mean the weathering away of soil by wind and water.

Perennial shall mean the persisting from year to year and not prone to seasonal die back.

Sediment barrier shall mean a physical barrier through which water readily passes and that functions to trap or prevent the passage of sediments suspended within the transmitted water.

Topsoil shall mean those soils classified as the upper part of the soil which are the most favorable material for plant growth, ordinarily rich in organic matter, and are used to top dress roads, lawns, and land affected by mining or development.

Watercourse shall mean any natural or artificial stream, creek, channel, ditch, canal, waterway, gully, ravine, or wash in which water flows.

Wetland shall mean any area that is inundated by surface or groundwater with a frequency sufficient to support and under normal circumstances does or would support a prevalence of vegetative species that require a saturated or seasonally saturated soil condition for growth and reproduction, e.g., swamps, sloughs, marshes, wet prairies, bayheads, grass beds, mud flats and ponds.

(Ord. No. 98-054, § 1, 7-21-98)