The 挖掘s Section of the Engineering Division of the 公共工程 Department oversees all excavations in the county through administration of the 挖掘 and 土方 Code of the Charlotte County Code of Laws and 条例. This code is located in Chapter 3-5, 第23条, 从3-5-470节开始, of the Code of Laws and 条例 (Code). For additional information, pleas 联系 贝丝 Reed, 挖掘 Coordinator, at 941.575.3615 or 贝丝.Reed@CharlotteCountyFL.政府.
术语
挖掘 means the removing of material below the seasonal high groundwater table.
土方 means any and all activities resulting in the repositioning of terrain including the excavation of lakes, 坑, and depressions; mounding, 储备, the creation of berms; and the transporting and installing of fill.
提交申请
County property owners are required to submit an application to the 社区发展 Department whenever they want to dig a hole or remove dirt, 岩石, or shell from a site for any reason. This is both applicable to a small property owner wanting to dig a fish pond and to a large property owner wanting to commence a commercial operation.
There are three tiers of applications as follows:
1. 获豁免的土方工程:
These are small scale activities that are exempt excavations because the impacts of the activity are considered minimal. Examples are such activities as grave digging, 好施工, mini-agricultural池塘, maintenance dredging of canals and stormwater ponds, 耕作, tilling or similar soil alteration associated with cultivation of crops, flower gardening and landscaping on a lot with a habitable dwelling with no adverse impacts on adjacent properties. Section 3-5-476 of the Code describes these in detail. A person contemplating such an activity must still submit an application, called the 挖掘 Exemption Request, and be approved by the 挖掘 Administrator before being officially exempted.
2. 标准土方工程许可证:
These are activities such as Site Plan development (subdivisions, 多户家庭的, 商业及工业), 住宅的池塘, repair/replace or expand septic tanks and drain fields, raising the elevation of a portion of a lot with a habitable dwelling to a maximum height of up to one foot above natural grade, development of active and passive parks, 囤积挖泥船的战利品.
The following individual construction activities will not require a separate application for an earthmoving permit, but will be permitted in accordance with otherwise applicable county regulations: installation of irrigation pipe, 商业景观, 板, 车道, 海堤建设, construction or destruction of pools and buildings including standard building permits, tree removal and other such similar development activities. Activities that are first reviewed through site plan review should have obtained a standard earthmoving permit for much of the site preparation earthmoving associated with that activity, such as the installation of utilities, 道路, 以及雨水基础设施. These are detailed in Section 3-5-478 of the code.
3. 特定土方工程许可证:
These are activities such as lake reconfiguration (changing an existing lake size or depth), new canals or widening an existing canal, raising lot elevations more than one foot above natural grade, 储备填补, 基坑填筑, 农业(农业及挖掘), a surface water storage pond that is greater than fifteen (15) acres for bona fide agricultural use, and commercial excavations that supply material for construction sites, such as for roadbeds or building pads. These are detailed in Section 3-5-479 of the code.