Section 11.01 Creation and Duties.
Council shall by ordinance establish a Board of Zoning and Building Code Appeals to hear appeals for exception to and variances from the application of ordinances, resolutions, regulations, measures and orders of administrative officials or agencies governing zoning and building in the Municipality under procedures established by Council. Such Board shall be made up of five (5) electors of the municipality serving as regular members of the Board. There shall be an additional two (2) electors of the municipality serving as alternate members of the Board. Each member shall serve a term of five (5) years. Alternate members of the Board may serve in the place of a regular member when a regular member is unable to attend, or is otherwise unable to vote, at any meeting of the Board. Alternate members shall only have the powers of a regular member of the Board, including but not limited to the ability to deliberate and vote, when serving in place of a regular Board member.
Such Board shall have such duties and functions as may be provided by ordinance of Council or the Statutes of the State of Ohio. Members of the Board of Zoning and Building Code Appeals shall be appointed by the Mayor subject to confirmation by a majority of the members elected to Council.
The terms of the regular members shall be staggered so that one member’s term shall expire each year. The terms of alternate members need not be staggered. The Board shall annually elect its own Chairman and Vice Chairman, and Secretary. The Chairman and Vice Chairman shall be elected from the regular members of the Board, and the Secretary may be a regular member, alternate, or non-member of the Board. The minutes of the Board together with its findings and orders shall be filed in the Municipal offices.
The Board may adopt its own regulations, but the same shall not be inconsistent with the Statutes of the State of Ohio pertaining to a municipal Zoning Boards or ordinances of the municipality of Macedonia.
The Board may adopt its own regulations, but the same shall not be inconsistent with the Statutes of the State of Ohio pertaining to municipal Zoning Boards or ordinances of the municipality of Macedonia. A member of the Planning Commission, elected from its own at the first meeting of the year, shall be a non-voting member of the Board of Zoning and Building Code Appeals. (Amended November 3, 2015; November 7, 2023)