(a) Applications. An application for a hearing in cases in which the Board of Zoning Appeals has original jurisdiction under the provisions of this Zoning Ordinance, may be submitted by any person aggrieved. An application for a hearing before the Board shall be submitted to the Director of Planning and Building at least twenty-seven days before the next regular meeting. After such application has been filed, the Director of Planning and Building shall transmit same to the Board. A fee of twenty-five dollars ($25.00) for all applications for variance in any residential district and a fee of fifty dollars ($50.00) for any and all requests in any nonresidential district shall be charged. Fees shall be paid at the time notice of appeal is filed.
(b) Appeals.
(1) An appeal to the Board may be taken by any person aggrieved or by an officer of the Municipality adversely affected by any decision of the Chief Building Inspector or a person designated by the City Manager. Such appeal shall be made within twenty days after the decision, by filing with the City Clerk and with the Board a notice of appeal specifying the grounds thereof. Within three days of the filing of such an appeal, the City Clerk shall transmit the same to the Director of Planning and Building. The Director of Planning and Building shall forthwith transmit to the Board of Zoning Appeals all the papers constituting the record upon which the action appealed from was taken.
(2) An appeal shall stay all proceedings in furtherance of the action appealed from, unless the Chief Building Inspector or designated person shall certify to the Board after the notice of appeal shall have been filed with it, that a stay would, in his/her opinion, cause imminent peril to life or property, in which case, proceedings shall not be stayed.
(Ord. 09-2013. Passed 4-15-13.)