Legal Documents of Sweetwater

No building permit shall be issued by the city code enforcement officer, which affects property located within a designated district or is a designated landmark, unless an application for a certificate of appropriateness has been submitted to and approved by the Sweetwater Historic Zoning Commission. Said applications shall be provided to the public by the commission and reviewed in accordance with the following procedure:

1. When any such application is filed, the code enforcement officer shall notify the commission chairman.
2. The chairman shall set the agenda for the regular meeting date or set a time and date, which shall be no later than thirty (30) days after the filing of the application.
3. The chairman shall notify the applicant and all other commission members of the date set for the meeting. Notice of time and place of said hearing shall also be given to the public by publication in a newspaper having general circulation at least 10 days prior to the set meeting date.
4. At such hearing, the applicant for a certificate of appropriateness shall have the right to present any relevant evidence in support of the application. Likewise, the governing body shall have the right to present any additional relevant evidence in support of the application.
5. The commission may grant conditional approval.
6. Either at the meeting or within not more than fifteen (15) days after the hearing on an application, the commission shall act upon it, either approving, denying, on deferring action until the next meeting of the commission. Evidence of approval of the application shall be by certificate of appropriateness issued by the commission and, whatever its decision, notice in writing shall be given to the applicant and the city building official.
7. The issuance of a certificate of appropriateness shall not relieve an applicant from the obligation to obtain a building permit, special use permit, variance, or other authorization from compliance with any other requirement or provision of the laws of the city concerning zoning, construction repair, or demolition. (as added by Ord. #781, April 2006)