§ 20.100.390. Inactive applications.

A.

The director of planning shall have the authority to pursue a final decision on any permit or other approval application on file with the director for a period of at least six months where there is inactivity on the application on the part of the applicant for at least six consecutive months.

B.

Alternatively, if an applicant fails to process his or her application on file with the director and such inactivity by the applicant on the application continues for a period of at least six consecutive months and additional work would be required by the director to continue to process the application, the director shall have the authority to require the applicant to first pay additional fees to continue processing the application in order to account for work that was not paid for under the original application fee or in cases where the application fees paid by the applicant were at a different rate than those fees in effect at the time of reactivation of the application after a period of inactivity by the applicant.

C.

In addition to the ability provided to the director pursuant to the provisions of this section to pursue a final decision on any permit or other approval application on file with the director, the director also shall have the authority to deem an application withdrawn without holding any hearing on that application where the period of inactivity on an application on the part of the applicant has transpired for at least twelve consecutive months. The director shall provide a courtesy notice to the applicant at the last known address of the applicant on record with the director of the director's intention to deem an application withdrawn at least thirty days prior to deeming such application withdrawn, and the notice shall specify the date that the application is to be deemed withdrawn.

D.

For purposes of this section "inactivity" on an application means that the director has requested from the applicant or has provided the applicant with notice of additional information, materials and/or fees needed by the director from the applicant to continue to process the application and the applicant has failed to adequately respond to that request or notice.

(Ords. 27185, 28511.)