A. After receipt of the planning commission recommendation and attachments, the mayor or designee shall cause the recommendation and attachments, together with a copy of the audio recording of the planning commission public hearing, to be presented to the city council at one of its next two regular meetings. At this meeting, the city council shall schedule its consideration of the recommendation at one of its next two regular meetings. At the scheduled meeting, the city council shall review and consider the recommendation. The city council may continue review and consideration of the recommendation at subsequent meetings without giving notice thereof by mail or publication.

B. The city council shall not hold a public hearing on the application, but shall enter its decision to approve, approve with modifications, or disapprove the application based on the planning commission recommendation and attachments. The city council may remand the application to the planning commission, requesting the planning commission to reopen the public hearing upon the same notice as required for the planning commission public hearing, receive additional testimony or additional records, and forward the testimony and records to the city council. The planning commission shall cause an audio recording of the reopened public hearing to be made.

C. The city council shall adopt a written decision, which shall be approved by resolution and shall include findings of fact and conclusions of law and the period of time for the conditional use permit. The planning commission recommendation and attachments and additional testimony or records obtained by the city council from the planning commission, will be presumed to have been adopted by the city council, unless specifically provided otherwise in the decision. The decision also shall reference and quote subsection D of this section.

D. The conditional use permit shall be effective for the period of time stated in the city council decision. The conditional use permit shall expire and terminate unless the applicant or successor in interest (collectively hereafter in this chapter the “applicant”) implements the permit by commencing the use authorized by the permit or filing a complete building permit application for construction authorized by the permit within twelve months of the date of the city council resolution adopting the city council decision, or within a longer period in the decision; provided, that if the decision is appealed, the implementation period shall commence on the date of the decision on appeal. The city council may grant an extension or extensions of the implementation period or the conditional use permit period pursuant to a written request filed by the applicant prior to expiration of the implementation period or permit period, as applicable.

E. If the city clerk has issued a business license to a licensee who can engage in business only pursuant to a conditional use permit, and the permit expires without the permit being implemented as provided for in subsection D of this section, the business license shall be deemed to have expired and to have been revoked by the city clerk on the expiration date of the implementation period. (Ord. 1151-17 § 3; Ord. 817 § 2, 1996).