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4 (16) Duration of activity. SECTION 6. The City Council of the City of Lake Elmo hereby amends Section 151.020 of the City Code by deleting the stricken language and adding the underlined language as follows: § 151.020 EXTERIOR FINISH. All residential buildings shall have the exterior finished within 1 year of the date of the permit was issued. The exterior of all structures must be finished within six months from the date of commencement of construction of the structure. The Building Official may extend the completion date for large scale projects or demonstrated hardship. SECTION 7. The City Council of the City of Lake Elmo hereby amends the City Code by repealing Section 151.021, Expiration, in its entirety. SECTION 8. The City Council of the City of Lake Elmo hereby amends Section 151.025 of the City Code by deleting the stricken language and adding the underlined language as follows: § 151.025 INCOMPATIBLE STRUCTURES. (A) Referral by Inspector and Clerk Building Official and City Administrator. Whenever an application is filed with the city for a building permit for any structure to be built, enlarged, or altered within, or moved in or into the city, and the Building Inspector Building Official finds that the application, plans, and specifications, and the plot plan submitted (the application papers) comply with the code of the city except that the application papers provide for a structure, the exterior design, appearance, and functional plan which the Building Inspector and the Clerk Building Official and City Administrator feel may be so at variance or so similar with the exterior design, appearance, and functional plan of structures in the neighborhood and same zoning district of the proposed structure as to cause a material depreciation generally to property in the neighborhood, then the Building Inspector Building Official shall within 10 days after the receipt of the application papers, file the papers and the opinion in writing, signed by the Building Inspector and the Clerk Building Official and City Administrator, with the Planning Commission. (B) Call of hearing. Within 10 days after the receipt of the application papers and opinions, the Clerk City Administrator shall give notice to each member of Planning Commission and to the public by publication in the official paper and to any other persons the Clerk City Administrator deems advisable, of a hearing to be held by the Planning Commission with respect to the application. The notice shall state the purpose of the hearing and the location of the structure. Notice to the applicant shall be by registered mail at least 3 days in advance of the hearing, provided appearance at the hearing shall constitute a waiver of any defect in the notice of the hearing. The hearing on the application shall be held not less than 1 week nor more than 2 weeks after receipt of the application by the city. (C) Hearing and findings. Before or during the hearing, each member of the Planning