(A) Time permits valid. Except as otherwise provided herein, no building permit, once lawfully issued under the authority of the city, shall remain in force and of any effect, nor shall any building or construction of any type whatsoever be undertaken under the presumed authority of such permit, unless construction shall have begun in earnest and substantial completion of such authorized construction shall have been obtained within 18 months of the original date of issue of said building permit.
(B) Time extension. Notwithstanding the foregoing, and for good cause shown, a building permit lawfully issued under the authority of the city may be extended upon written notification by the builder to the city, and subject to the approval of the city’s Building Inspector, for an additional period not to exceed 24 month.
(C) Additional cost. If a building permit is to be extended under the terms of this subchapter, as set out above, a calculation shall be done as if the request for an extension was a request for an original building permit and applicable fees shall be calculated as of that point in time. This shall be done in order to ascertain what the cost of such a permit would have been if this were a first request for a permit. If the calculation finds that, at the time the permit extension is requested, the permit holder would have been required to pay an amount in excess of the fees paid for the original building permit, the permit holder shall pay the difference before such permit extension shall be valid.
(Prior Code, § 50.06) (Ord. 2-92, passed - -1992; Ord. 11-99, passed 10-20-1999) Penalty, see § 157.999