Put Jericho’s slope bands into the clearing quantity
The same regulations tell developers to keep tree and soil removal to a minimum and to treat slopes over 25 percent, prominent hillsides, ridgelines and significant rock outcroppings as features to protect, and they carve out silviculture on wetlands and buffers only when the clearing is for forest management. On a Jericho hillside, then, a mulching scope that reaches the steeper side of a lot should say up front which grade band it falls in. The town's zoning office can confirm the slope bands from the parcel's contours.
A hypothetical Jericho work area 100 feet by 101 feet is 10,100 square feet. If that disturbance occupies the steeper band described in section 11.5, it exceeds the 10,000-square-foot comparison. Have the engineer separate the actual slope bands instead of averaging a hill and level landing together.
The Town determines the applicable review and any exemption for the proposed operation.
Jericho clearing quantities and the accepted finish
For a Jericho clearing quote, show the protected ridgeline, rock outcrops and retained trees on the same drawing as the machine lane. The cited regulation allows the board to require a bond or escrow supporting stabilization planting for three years. Ask who supplies and maintains that planting if the job ends with a mulched surface; a machine-day price alone does not include the later vegetation obligation.
Jericho’s regulations distinguish forest-management activity from development clearing. Describe the later use when seeking an answer: opening access to a prescribed harvest and preparing an engineered building envelope are different proposals. Keep the zoning response with the estimate, especially if the contractor expects to cross a protected slope just to reach gentler ground.