(A) Form of Application
1. Applications required under this Zoning Ordinance must be submitted in a form and in such numbers as required by the Zoning Administrator.
2. Applications must include materials and information as may be required by the Zoning Administrator to establish that the proposed activity complies with all applicable requirements of this Zoning Ordinance.
3. The Zoning Administrator shall develop checklists of application submittal requirements and make those checklists available to the public.
(B) Application Filing Fees
Applications must be accompanied by the fee amount that has been established by the Village Board.
(C) Application Review
1. An application will be considered complete and ready for processing only if it is submitted in the required number and form, includes all required information, and is accompanied by the required filing fee.
(a) The Zoning Administrator must make a determination of application completeness within 7 business days of application filing.
2. If an application is determined to be incomplete, the Zoning Administrator must provide written notice to the applicant along with an explanation of the application’s deficiencies. No further processing of the application will occur until the deficiencies are corrected.
(a) If the deficiencies are not corrected by the applicant within 60 days, the application will be considered withdrawn.
(b) No further processing of incomplete applications will occur and in-complete applications will be pulled from the processing cycle. When the deficiencies are corrected, the application will be placed in the next processing cycle.
3. Applications deemed complete will be considered to be in the processing cycle and will be reviewed by staff and other review and decision-making bodies in accordance with applicable development review and approval procedures of this Chapter.
4. The Zoning Administrator may require that applications or plans be revised before being placed on an agenda for possible action if the Zoning Administrator determines that:
(a) The application or plan contains one or more inaccuracies or omissions that will hinder timely or competent evaluation of the plan’s/application’s compliance with Zoning Ordinance requirements or other regulations; or
(b) The decision-making body does not have legal authority to approve the application or plan. (Ord. 2021-4931, 11-15-2021)