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f3QMAm ORDINANCE NO. 166 AN ORDINANCE OF THE TOWN OF IAS ALTOS HILLS REGULATING THE DESIGN, CONSTRUCTION, MAINTENANCE OR ALTERATION OF DRIVEWAYS, GRADING,EXCAVATIONS, FILLS, AND OTHER ASPECTS OF SITE DEVELOPMENT WITHIN THE TOWN OF LOS ALTOS HILLS, AND REPEALING ORDINANCES INCONSISTENT HEREWITH THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE TOWN OF LOS ALTOS HILLS DOES ORDAIN AS SITE DEVELOPMENT ARTICLE 1 - GENERAL SECTION 1. AUTHORITY. This ordinance is enacted pursuant to the paver of the Town of Los Altos Hills to make all regulations necessary and appropriate to preserve the public health, safety and welfare of the citizens of the Town of Los Altos Hills. SECTION 2. APPLICABILITY. The provisions of this ordinance shall apply to all site development within the Town of Los Altos Hills; however, a permit shall be required only for those types of development set forth in Article 3, Section 1. SECTION 3. PURPOSE. This ordinance is adopted to promote public safety and the general public welfare, to protect property against loss from erosion, earth movement and flooding, to promote and enhance a superior community environment, and to ensure the maximum preservation of the natural scenic character of major portions of the Town by establishing minimum standards and requirements relating to land grading, excavation and fills, installation of driveways and procedures by which these standards and requirements may be enforced. It is intended that this ordinance be administered with the foregoing purposes in mind and specifically so as to: A. Ensure that the development of each site occurs in a manner harmonious with adjacent lands so as to minimize problems of drainage, erosion, earth movement and similar hazards as well as visually unpleasant relationships. B. Ensure that public landsand places, water courses, streets and all other lands in the Town are not subject to erosion and the hazard of earth movement or faulty drainage.