(A) Application for building permit. All persons desiring to construct, refurbish, remodel, or improve any building or structure within the corporate limits of the city shall make application for a building permit for that structure with the City Secretary. All applications for building permits shall be accompanied by a site plan in duplicate together with those additional copies as the City Secretary determines to be necessary for review by other administrative officers and agencies; shall be drawn to scale, showing the actual dimensions and shape of the lot to be built upon, the exact size and location of the building on the lot already existing, if any, and the location and dimensions of proposed buildings, structures, or alterations. Any application shall include other information as lawfully may be required by the City Secretary, including existing or proposed uses of the building or structure and land, conditions existing on the lot, and other matters as may be necessary to determine conformance with the city’s zoning and subdivision control regulations in Chapter 155 and 156 of this code, and provide for the enforcement of these regulations.
(B) Issuance of building permits. Building permits are to be issued by the City Secretary upon the approval of the City Building Official. All new construction of buildings, structures, fixed or movable, remodeling of same, swimming pools, mobile homes, prefabricated structures, portable buildings, outbuildings, and all other buildings or structures within the corporate limits of the city must comply with this chapter; and a building permit will be issued only when that compliance is assured. No placement, construction, remodeling, refurbishment, or construction of any kind of any building or structure may be commenced prior to the issuance of a building permit.
(Ord. 477, passed 11-16-1999) Penalty, see § 151.99