A. Permit Required: No buildings or other structures shall be erected, moved, added to, or structurally altered, and no land use shall be established or changed in use, within city limits or property outside the city limits within the extraterritorial limits of this title, without a permit therefore, issued by the Community Development Department.
B. Authority To Initiate: Applications for approval of a land use permit may be filed by an applicant or by an eligible applicant’s authorized agent.
C. Pre-Application Meeting: Before filing a land use permit application, the applicant or the authorized agent must meet with the planning staff to discuss the proposed project and the applicable procedures.
D. Application Filing:
1. Application for review and decision by the decision-making authority for land use permits;
a. Shall be filed in accordance with the procedures in this Chapter;
b. Shall be filed with the City on forms provided by the Community Development Department;
c. Shall include all required supplemental information;
d. Shall be submitted by the application deadline as established by the City;
e. Shall be signed by the applicant and owner attesting to the truth and exactness of all information supplied on the application; and
f. Public notice requirements must be met by applicant.
2. The planning staff shall verify that the application is complete. If the application still needs to be completed, the planning staff shall return the application to the applicant and inform the applicant of the missing information required for a complete application.
E. Transmittal: The application shall be transmitted to City Engineer, Police Department, and Fire Department to review and provide comments. Each Department will return comments to Community Development Director.
F. Approval: Within ninety (90) days after the receipt of a complete application, the Community Development Director shall either approve, conditionally approve or disapprove the application. Work shall commence within one hundred and eighty (180) days of the issuance of a land use permit.
G. Conformance:
1. Required: No permit of any type shall be issued unless in conformance with the regulations contained within this title. Permits issued on the basis of plans and applications approved by the Community Development Director authorize only the use, arrangement and construction outlined in such approved plans and applications and no other use, arrangement, or construction. Any use, arrangement, or construction at variance with that authorized shall be deemed a violation of this title punishable as specified in 10-6-21.
a. Conditional Use Permits; Variances: Conditional use permits approved by the city council and variances granted by the board of adjustment shall be deemed in conformance with this title’s terms. However, building permits or land use permits shall be issued only in accordance with the terms outlined in the conditional use permit and variance sections of this title.
2. Expiration. Every permit issued by the Community Development Director under the provisions of this chapter shall expire by limitation and become null and void if the building or work authorized by such permit has not commenced within one hundred eighty (180) days from the date of such permit, or if the building or work authorized by such permit is suspended or abandoned at any time after the work is commenced for a period of one hundred eighty (180) days.
a. New Permit Required. Before such work can be recommenced, a new permit shall first be obtained to do so, and the fee therefor shall be one-half (½) the amount required for the new permit for such work, provided no changes have been made or will be made in the original plans and specifications for the work; and, provided further, that such suspension or abandonment has not exceeded one year.
3. Permits Issued Contrary to Title. Any authorization issued, granted, or approved in violation of the provisions of this title shall be null and void and of no effect without the necessity of any proceedings or revocation or nullification thereof, and any work is undertaken or use established pursuant to any such building permit, or other authorization shall be unlawful. (Ord. 2023-7, 7-17-2023)