A.
The regulation and control of the general regrading
of land, extraction and removal of earth products and other excavations
is necessary to protect and to prevent serious and irreparable damage
to the public health, safety and general welfare as well as to make
effective the general purposes of comprehensive planning and zoning.
B.
These regulations and controls are intended to prevent
the following conditions from occurring:
(1)
The interruption and diversion of natural watersheds
and drainage lines resulting in inadequate and improper surface-water
drainage.
(2)
The erosion of soil by water and wind.
(3)
The decrease in or destruction of fertility of the
land.
(4)
The removal of lateral support of abutting streets,
lands and premises.
(5)
The creation of dust storms and mosquito-breeding
places.
(6)
The creation of dangerous banks, depressions or pits.
(7)
The interruption of suitable access roads to other
lands and the disruption of the future road pattern.
(8)
The rendering of lands unfit or unsuitable for their
most appropriate uses.
(9)
The depreciation of property values.
(10)
The creation of other deterrents to the coordinated
and harmonious physical development of the Town of Shelter Island.
As used in this chapter, the following terms
shall have the meanings indicated:
Includes such material as topsoil, sand, gravel, stone and
other minerals.
Any hole, pit, side hill cut, stripping or similar condition,
except that the provisions of this chapter shall not apply when the
extent of such "excavation" shall be limited to the requirements for
actual construction of a building or structure or part thereof for
which the Building Inspector has issued a building permit or to a
cesspool, septic tank or recharge basin excavation.
Includes all the various methods used in excavating or mining
earth products.
Any rearrangement of the topography of a property, except
that, when it does not affect any other property or lot or any natural
drainage system, limited regrading for foundation drainage and landscape
treatment for individual lots of not more than two acres shall be
excluded from the provisions of this chapter.
The transport of earth products from the property upon which
they are naturally located to some other property, whether they remain
in their original form or become changed in any way and whether or
not such removal is for profit.
A person or corporation who proposes a subdivision under
the provisions of the Shelter Island Planning Board's rules and regulations
for the subdivision of land,[1] whether such subdivision is for residential purposes or
some other use.
