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(a) Properly fence any pit or excavation, and barricade entrances to prevent the general public from depositing garbage or refuse. (b) Slope the banks, and otherwise guard and keep any pit or excavation in such condition as not to be dangerous because of sliding or caving banks. (c) Properly drain, fill, or level off any pit or excavation so as to make the same safe and healthful as the permitting authority may determine. (d) Limit the depth of such excavation to an elevation no lower than the minimum floor elevation for building construction as established by the City Engineer, so as not to diminish development potential of the parcel. (e) Limit any fill material to clean fill, defined as rock, sand, gravel, clay, or other like and similar non -decomposable material. Concrete, asphalt, metal, wood, and other debris shall be prohibited. (f) Require that all decomposable material, or other unsuitable foundation material. be removed from an area before deposition of fill begins. (g) Prepare a site plan showing existing and proposed grade elevations and effect of storm water drainage on adjacent areas. (h) Specify a time when the excavation or land reclamation project shall be completed. (i) Place a minimum of four (4) inches of top soil over the completed project and establish appropriate ground cover within sixty (60) days of completion, or in a time period consistent with the City's stormwater management and pollution prevention plan. (j) Reimburse the City for the cost of periodic inspections by the City for the purpose of determining that the terms under which the permit has been issued are being complied with. (k) Implement the tree preservation plan. (1) In addition to a conditional use permit, the City Engineer may determine that permits in excess of twenty-five thousand (25,000) cubic yards require the applicant to conduct a neighborhood meeting and to notify affected property owners within one-quarter (1/4) mile. (m) Post a form of security and sum as the permitted authority may require, running to the City, conditioned to pay the City the cost and expense of repairing or cleaning any highways, streets, or other public ways within the City made necessary by the special burden resulting from transporting thereon by the applicant material to or from the site, the amount of such cost to be determined by the Council; and conditioned further to comply with all the requirements of this Ordinance and the particular permit, and to save the City free and harmless from all suits or 3-78