201.09 BOARD OF ADJUSTMENT.

1.   There is created an Airport Board of Adjustment to have and exercise the following powers: (i) to hear and decide appeals from any order, requirement, decision, or determination made by the Ankeny Community Development Department office in the enforcement of this chapter; and (ii) to hear and decide specific variances.

2.   The Board of Adjustment shall consist of members appointed by the City and County as provided in Section 329.12, Code of Iowa. Members shall be removable by the appointing authority for cause, upon written charges, after a public hearing.

3.   The Airport Board of Adjustment shall adopt rules for its governance and in harmony with the provisions of this chapter. Meetings of the Airport Board of Adjustment shall be held at the call of the Chairperson and at such other times as the Airport Board of Adjustment may determine. The Chairperson or, in the absence of the Chairperson, the acting chairperson, may administer oaths and compel the attendance of witnesses. All hearings of the Airport Board of Adjustment shall be public. The Airport Board of Adjustment shall keep minutes of its proceedings showing the vote of each member upon each question; or, if absent or failing to vote, indicating such fact, and shall keep records of its examinations and other official actions, all of which shall immediately be filed in the Polk County Public Works Department and the Ankeny Community Development Department office.

4.   The Airport Board of Adjustment shall make written findings of fact and conclusions of law giving the facts upon which it acted and its legal conclusions from such facts in reversing, affirming, or modifying any order, requirement, decisions or determination which comes before it under the provisions of this chapter.

5.   The concurring vote of a majority of the members of the Airport Board of Adjustment shall be sufficient to reverse any order, requirement, decision or determination of the Ankeny Community Development Department office or decide in favor of the applicant on any matter upon which it is required to pass under this chapter, to effect variation to this chapter.