With all the helpful responses you have here you can still have problems. I live on heavy clay that a Civil Engineer, doing a standpipe design for one of our community wells deemed the soil "unfit for dwellings or roadways". Case in point, county upgraded the roads from gravel to asphalt-rock hard surface, about 10 years ago. Spent a lot of time packing the subsoil.
Came in with about 3' of gravel base with a good dose of "finds"; water truck trips over it, Ram's foot packers just like the state boys use, and all the good stuff....county has a hefty tax base and has all the tools needed for the job.
Today there are sink holes in the road a foot or so deep over 20' of roadway for example that have been filled in with asphalt plugs several time and still sinking; the edges crack and fall off into the ditch, my yard has been leveled with I don't know how many 25ton loads of soil, my house has been leveled just about twice a year for 40 years, all my slabs are broken, on and on. The state just got through upgrading all the roads around my house and they no more got their equipment moved off to another job and the sides were already sinking and cracking the surface.
There is another area on the state highway on top of one of these hills around here that has shifting plates in about 4 places. In the 40 years I've lived here, at least every 10 or so years they come out, whack off the top, smooth it out to level, rebuild the sub surface and retop just to have it poke out again.
Regardless of how well you prepare the site, if the subsoil has a lot of shifting, your well laid plans will not be as you desired. Good luck.
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