Fairfax requires the original hillside on the plan
A Fairfax slope calculation should describe the land before clearing and grading. For example, a rise of 25 feet over 100 horizontal feet is 25 percent. That is not interchangeable with a 25-degree slope.
Give the survey’s natural-grade contours to the designer before asking a contractor to bench a machine route into the hillside.
Section 5.07.C means that an apparently accessible part of a Fairfax lot may not be the part approved for a building, road or utility. Price vegetation removal against the accepted envelope and keep the steeper ground visibly excluded. Clearing first and proposing a gentler finished pad afterwards does not erase the regulation’s requirement to show the original slope.
Fairfax clearing quantities and the accepted finish
Fairfax also limits the board’s waiver power for riparian and wetland setbacks and buffers. Ask the zoning administrator to identify those limits on the plan before an estimator counts the whole parcel as workable acreage. A reduction in machine width is not a substitute for an approval that the board is not authorized to give.
For a Fairfax field-edge reset, include the intended later use in the application inquiry and the equipment approach in the estimate. Separate hand work or selective cutting near retained buffers from open-ground machine work. Keep any necessary replanting, erosion protection and access repair as priced items, so the accepted finish can be compared with the original approved drawing.