(a) Right of All Persons. Any person may appear at a public hearing and submit information or evidence, either individually or as a representative of a person or an organization. Each person who appears at a public hearing shall be identified, state his or her address, and if appearing on behalf of a person or organization, state the name and mailing address of the person or organization being represented. Reasonable but not excessive time should be given to each individual, depending on the number of people to testify. For the purposes of this section an allocation of five (5) minutes per individual is considered reasonable.
(b) Continuance of a Public Hearing or Deferral of Application Review.
(1) An applicant may request that a review or decision-making body's consideration of an application at a public hearing be deferred by submitting a written request for deferral to the Zoning Administrator prior to the publication of notice as may be required by this Zoning Ordinance. The Zoning Administrator may grant such requests, in which case, the application will be considered at the next regularly scheduled meeting.
(2) A request for deferral of consideration of an application received by the Zoning Administrator after publication of notice of the public hearing as required by this Zoning Ordinance shall be considered as a request for a continuance of the public hearing, and may only be granted by the review or decision-making body.
(3) The review or decision-making body conducting the public hearing may, on its own motion or at the request of the applicant, continue the public hearing to a fixed date, time, and place. No additional notice is required if the fixed date, time, and place is announced at the time of the continuance.
(Ord. 30-22. Passed 12-12-22.)