(a) Any person aggrieved by the decision of the planning commission including any city official may, within fifteen days after the action and decision of the planning commission concerning the variance application, appeal to the city council by filing with the city clerk such notice of appeal. Except in the case of an appeal by a city official, such notice of appeal shall be accompanied by a ten dollar filing fee.
(b) Unless the city council, within thirty days after notice of appeal has been filed, determines to grant a hearing or to refer the matter back to the planning commission for rehearing, the appeal shall be deemed dismissed and the decision of the planning commission shall thereupon become final.
(c) The city council may consider the appeal on the record, if any, made before the planning commission, or de novo; and thereafter the city council may refer the matter back to the planning commission for further consideration or may reverse, affirm or modify the decision of the planning commission subject to the same standards and limitations imposed upon the planning commission by this section, except as herein expressly otherwise provided, the decision of the city council shall be final.
(Ord. 46 § 1 (part), 1962; prior code § 6703).