Extracted standards
3 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
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- Appeal period30 days
The appeals shall be taken within 30 days after the decision appealed from by filing with the Zoning Administrator, and with the Board of Zoning Appeals, a notice of appeal, specifying the grounds thereof.
- Flood hazard varianceVariancePermission to depart from a specific dimensional rule, granted on a showing of hardship. lot size0.5 acresacre43,560 square feet — about the size of an American football field without the end zones.
Variances may be issued for new construction and substantial improvements to be erected on a lot of one-half acre or less in size contiguous to and surrounded by lots with existing structures constructed below the base flood level...
- VarianceVariancePermission to depart from a specific dimensional rule, granted on a showing of hardship. lapse period12 months
If a building permit application for construction authorized by the variance has not been submitted within 12 months of the granting of such variance, the variance so granted shall become void.
From the ordinance
The variance process allows for reasonable deviations from those provisions regulating the shape, size, or area of a lot or parcel of land, or the size, height, area, bulk, or location of a building or structure when the strict application of the ordinance unreasonably restrict the utilization of the property...