(a) No certificate of appropriateness shall be issued by the Architectural Review Board until an application has been filed with the Board. Such application shall be on a form furnished by the Board and shall, at a minimum, contain information regarding the elements for review set forth in Section 1223.04.
(b) The responsibility of review and approval, approval with conditions or modifications, or denial of the application for approval shall rest with the Board. All applications requiring review by the Board, rather than the staff, shall be made to the Board or its designee at least 4 weeks before a regularly scheduled Board meeting; provided, however, that the ARB may, for good cause, waive the 4 week advanced filing requirement, provided that public notice is in accordance with the adopted ARB Rules and Regulations, and provided that the Building Department, in its sole discretion, has adequate time to review and process the application.
(c) The Board shall review and approve, approve with modifications or conditions or disapprove each such application. An application may be tabled at the request of the applicant or the Board, when the Board is making the final determination on the application. The City shall maintain, as an official record of the Board's decision on an application, minutes of the meeting at which the application was considered.
(d) Delegation of Authority. The Board may delegate to a qualified employee of or consultant to the City the authority to review and approve plans and issue a certificate of appropriateness with respect to changes to existing buildings or structures, without further review and approval by the Board, in cases involving compliance with design guidelines adopted by the Board and approved by Council pursuant to this Zoning Code or other routine matters, such as the approval of insignificant accessory structures. The design guidelines shall specify the provisions there of which may be reviewed and approved by the staff pursuant to this delegation. The staff may, however, decline to review an application and submit it to the Board for its review. An applicant whose plans have been removed by the staff may, upon request, have such plans reviewed by the Board.
(Ord. 29-16. Passed 11-15-16; Ord. 08-20. Passed 7-14-20.)