(A) The City Council shall serve as the Board of Adjustment. The Board of Adjustment is hereby designated to hear and render a decision on all requests for variances, conditional uses and zoning appeals. The Board of Adjustment may, in specific cases to avoid unwarranted hardship which constitutes an unreasonable deprivation of use as distinguished from the mere grant of a privilege, make upon an affirmative vote of two-thirds of the full membership of the Board of Adjustment, conditional uses or grant variances to the terms of this code of ordinances, subject to appropriate conditions or safeguards being adopted by the City Council.
(B) The City Council shall designate an individual to act as Secretary to the Board of Adjustment when acting in zoning cases, but shall take no part in the deliberations. Meetings of the Board of Adjustment acting in zoning cases shall be held at the call of the Chairperson and at such other times, as the Board shall determine. Such Chairperson, or in his or her absence, the Acting Chairperson, may administer oaths and compel the attendance of witnesses.
(C) All meetings of the Board of Adjustment shall be open to the public. Those meetings designated as public hearings shall allow for testimony from all interested parties. The Board, acting in zoning cases, shall keep minutes of its proceedings, showing the vote of each member upon each question, or if absent or failing to vote, indicating such fact, and shall keep records of its examinations and other official actions, all of which shall be immediately filed in the office of the City Finance Officer and shall be a public record. The Board of Adjustment, acting in zoning cases, shall adopt from time to time, subject to the approval of the City Council, such rules and regulations as it may deem necessary to carry the appropriate provisions of the zoning regulations into effect.
(Prior Code, § 2.02.03) (Ord. 737, passed - -; Ord. 800, passed - -)