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2 <br />L! <br />FI <br />10 <br />11 <br />12 <br />13 <br />14 <br />15 <br />16 <br />17 <br />18 <br />19 <br />20 <br />21 <br />22 <br />23 <br />24 <br />25 <br />26 <br />27 <br />28 <br />SECTION 14. Chapter 18.41 Hillside Standards of Title 18 of the Colton Municipal <br />Code pertaining to hillside residential development, is hereby added (New Text is shown in <br />Underline and bold): <br />Chapter 18.41 Hillside Standards <br />18.041.010 Purpose. <br />18.041.020 Applicability. <br />18.041.025 Permit and Application Requirements. <br />18.041.030 Development Standards. <br />18.041.010 Purpose. <br />The standards of this Division are intended to: <br />A. Preserve the City's scenic resources by encouraging retention and/or <br />protection of the City's natural topographic features and vegetation such as hillside <br />relines, steep slopes, and other hillside that have aesthetic value to the City of Colton <br />and contribute to the community's sense of identity; <br />B. Acknowledge that as the slope of a development site increases so does the <br />potential for environmental degradation including slope failure, increased erosion, <br />sedimentation and stormwater run-off; and <br />C. Encourage grading practices that are appropriate in hillside areas such as <br />implementation of land form grading; and <br />D. Encourage structures on hillside parcels to be designed with scale, <br />massing, architectural design and detailing appropriate to maintain hillsides in a <br />natural, open character ensuring that buildings and structures blend with the natural <br />environment through their shape, materials, and colors. <br />18.041.020 Applicability. <br />A. Sloping sites. The standards in this Division aDuly to subdivisions. uses <br />structures, and to all other development on sites with an average of slope of 20 percent <br />or greater. <br />B. Determination of average slope. Average slope shall be determined by <br />applying the following formula. <br />Average Slope <br />Formula: S — 100 (I x L) <br />A <br />-7- <br />