(A) Applications for a certificate of appropriateness shall be submitted to the Planning Director no later than 14 calendar days prior to the next regularly scheduled meeting of the Historic Preservation Commission. Applications shall contain the names and addresses of the property owners filing the application and those of the property owners within 100 feet on all sides of the property that is the subject of the application. The Planning Director is responsible for transmitting the application to the Historic Preservation Commission.
(B) The planning staff will notify by mail the owners of any property located within 100 feet on all sides of the property that is the subject of the application. Prior to the issuance or denial of a certificate of appropriateness, the Historic Preservation Commission will give the applicant and other affected property owners and/or residents the opportunity to be heard.
(C) The Historic Preservation Commission shall act upon the application within 60 calendar days after the filing. If the Commission fails to act upon the application within this time it shall be deemed to constitute approval and a certificate of appropriateness shall be issued.
(D) All actions of the Historic Preservation Commission shall be set forth in writing. The Historic Preservation Commission’s final action on an application for a certificate of appropriateness shall be by the passage of a motion to take 1 of the following actions:
(1) Approve the application for a certificate of appropriateness as proposed, and provide in writing the findings on which the decision is based;
(2) Approve the application for a certificate of appropriateness subject to specific conditions and/or modifications, providing these conditions of approval in writing; or
(3) Disapprove the application for a certificate of appropriateness as proposed, and provide in writing the findings on which the decision is based.
(E) (1) The applicant shall have 180 days from the date the certificate of appropriateness is approved and issued to procure a building or demolition permit. Failure to procure the permit in this period will be a failure to comply with the certificate of appropriateness and it shall be void.
(2) If a building permit is not required, the work must be completed within the 180-day period.
(3) If work is commenced, but discontinued for a period of 180 days or more, the certificate will be void.
(F) If the Historic Preservation Commission determines that a certificate of appropriateness should not be issued, a new application affecting the same property may be submitted only if substantial changes are made in plans for the proposed work.
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