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-- ATTACHMENT -- <br />recommendations of the board of appeals and adjustments and the standards set out in subsection <br />(a) and may grant or deny the variance and may impose conditions and safeguards therein. <br />(f) Denial An application variance may be denied by motion of the City .Council and. such. <br />motion shall constitute a.findng and determination by the City Council that the conditions <br />required for approval do not exist. . <br />(g} Action without board of appeals and adjustments recommendation. If no recommendation <br />is transmitted-by the board of appeals and adjustments within sixty (60) days after referral of the <br />application for variance to the board, the City Council may take action without further awaiting <br />such recommendations. <br />Sec. 1007-35. Abandonment of conditional use or variance. <br />(a) Abandonment. Whenever within one (1}year after the granting of a conditional use permit <br />or a variance the owner or occupant shall not have substantially completed the erection or <br />alteration. of a building. or structure .described,. then the permit or variance shall become null and <br />void unless a petition forextension oftime in which to complete the proposed construction of <br />alterations has been granted. <br />(b) Extension of time. A petition to extend time of a conditional use permit or variance shall <br />be in writing .and filed with the Zoning Administrator more than. twenty (20) days before the <br />expiration of one (I) year from the date the permit or variance wasapproved. It shall state facts <br />showing a good faith attempt to use the permit or variance, and shall state the additional time <br />requested to complete the construction or alteration. Such petition shall be presented to the board <br />of appeals and adjustments for hearing and decision in the same manner as the original request. In <br />determining whether the petitioner has made a good faith attempt to use the permit or variance, <br />the board may consider such factors as the design, size, expense and type of the proposed <br />construction or alteration. <br />(c) Two-year period. It shall be within the power of the Planning Commission or board of <br />appeals and adjustments, at the time of granting the original request for a conditional use permit <br />or variance, to grant atwo-year period for the substantial construction of the building or <br />structure, but such two-year period may not thereafter be extended. <br />.] <br />HYPOTHETICAL CASE STUDIES PAGE I6 <br />