1212.06 ZONING ADMINISTRATOR.

   A.    Powers and Duties

   The Zoning Administrator shall be charged with the administration of Zoning Ordinance and, in particular, shall have the jurisdiction, authority, and duties described below:

      1.   To meet with and counsel those persons having an interest in this Zoning Ordinance, other questions of land use, and related City plans and policies.

      2.    To conduct zoning compliance reviews regarding any permit pertaining to the use of land, buildings or structures.

      3.    To issue permits for temporary uses requiring administrative approval.

      4.    To conduct other administrative approvals as provided by this Zoning Ordinance.

      5.    To review any site plans submitted for such review, and to make decisions or recommendations, as appropriate, to the City Planning Commission on such site plans, pursuant to Section 1213.06, Site Plan Review.

      6.    To make written interpretations of specific provisions of this Zoning Ordinance pursuant to Section 1213.11, Administrative Interpretations.

      7.    To approve Certificates of Occupancy which are issued by the Commissioner of Buildings for buildings which meet applicable requirements.

   B.    Procedures

      1.    General Authority to Enact Rules and Procedures. The Zoning Administrator, consistent with the express standards, purposes, and intent of this Zoning Ordinance, may promulgate, adopt, and issue such procedural rules, regulations, and forms as are necessary to the effective administration and enforcement of the provisions of this Zoning Ordinance.

      2.    Staff Assistance to the Board of Zoning Appeals and City Planning Commission. The Zoning Administrator shall make staff and consulting assistance available to the Board of Zoning Appeals and the City Planning Commission. The Zoning Administrator or such person as the Zoning Administrator designates shall in that capacity:

         a.    Attend the meetings of each such body.

         b.    Inform each such body with a summary of all relevant facts and information at the Zoning Administrator's disposal with respect to any matter brought before such body.

         c.    Assist each such body by performing research on matters brought before such body.

         d.    Perform such other duties as may be assigned to the Zoning Administrator by this Code, the Mayor, the City Council, the City Planning Commission, and the Board of Zoning Appeals.

      3.    Records. The Zoning Administrator shall maintain:

         a.    Permanent and current records of this Zoning Ordinance, including all maps, amendments, conditional use and planned development approvals and denials, interpretations, and decisions rendered respectively by the Board of Zoning Appeals, the City Planning Commission and the Zoning Administrator, together with relevant background files and materials.

         b.    A current file of all notices of violations and revocations of Conditional Use Permits issued by or entrusted to the Zoning Administrator's office for such time as necessary to ensure continuous compliance with the provisions of this Zoning Ordinance.

      4.    Zoning Text and Map. The Zoning Administrator shall prepare, maintain and have available for reproduction or public sale at a cost established by ordinance of the City Council at least one (1) up-to-date copy of both the Zoning Ordinance text and the Zoning Map, showing all amendments through the most recent meeting of the City Council for which official minutes have been approved.

      5.    Receipt, Processing, and Referral of Applications. The Zoning Administrator shall receive all applications required to be filed pursuant to this Zoning Ordinance. Upon receipt of any such application, the Zoning Administrator shall see to its processing, including its prompt referral to and retrieval from each official, department, board, or commission of the City or other government agency, with any interest or duty with respect to such application. Whenever the City Planning Commission, the Board of Zoning Appeals, the City Council or the Mayor so request, the Zoning Administrator shall conduct or cause to be conducted such surveys, investigations, and field studies and shall prepare or cause to be prepared such reports, maps, photographs, charts and exhibits as shall be necessary and appropriate to the processing of any application filed pursuant to this Zoning Ordinance.

      6.    Rendering of Administrative Interpretations. The Zoning Administrator may issue written interpretations of specific provisions of this Zoning Ordinance pursuant to the standards and procedures set forth in Section 1213.11, Administrative Interpretations. Any interpretation of this Zoning Ordinance that may be rendered by the Board of Zoning Appeals, the City Planning Commission or the Zoning Administrator shall be kept on file in the Planning Department.

      7.    Guarantee of Time Extensions. The Zoning Administrator, upon written request, may for good cause shown and without any notice or hearing grant extensions of any time limit imposed on an applicant or permittee by this Zoning Ordinance or, unless the ordinance or resolution shall expressly provide otherwise, by any ordinance or resolution of any body acting pursuant to this Zoning Ordinance. The total period of time granted by such extension or extensions shall not exceed the length of the original time period, and requests for any further extension may only be granted by the applicable hearing body.

      8.    Conducting of Inspections and Enforcement. In furtherance of the enforcement of this Zoning Ordinance, the Zoning Enforcement Officer shall undertake such regular and continuing programs of inspection of work approved and under way and of existing structures and uses as may be feasible and proper shall undertake such additional inspections as may be necessary to the performance of his or her duties hereunder shall receive from any person complaints alleging with particularity a violation of this Zoning Ordinance and when appropriate shall cause such investigations and inspections as may be warranted by such complaints. Upon finding the existence of any violation of this Zoning Ordinance, the Zoning Administrator may take all actions necessary and appropriate to abate and redress such violations pursuant to Chapter 1214, Enforcement.

         (Ord. 18-25. Enacted 4-23-18.)