When an appeal is from a decision of the Planning and Development Department refusing to allow the person aggrieved thereby to do any act, its decision shall remain in force until modified or reversed. When an appeal is from a decision of the Planning and Development Department requiring the person aggrieved to do any act, the appeal shall have the effect of suspending the requirement until the hearing by the City Council unless the Planning and Development Department certifies to the Council, after the notice of appeal is filed with it, that, by reason of the facts stated in the certificate (a copy of which shall be furnished the appellant), a suspension of its requirement would cause imminent peril to life or property; in which case, the requirement shall not be suspended except by a restraining order. Such a restraining order may be granted for due cause shown upon not less than one day’s written notice to the Planning and Development Department, by the City Council, or by a court of record upon petition made pursuant to § 152.24.
(1997 Code, § 152.21) (Ord. passed - -1997; Ord. 2010-26, passed 12-14-2010)