All use permits are always revocable and may be made conditional or valid for a specific time period and shall be issued by the planning commission or by the affirmative vote of the city council upon appeal for any of the uses for which a use permit is required by the terms of this title. Use permits must be obtained for those uses designated as requiring use permits under these regulations, whether use be in connection with new construction, additions or enlargements or extensions of use.

Upon the filing of a written application for a use permit by a property owner or by a lessee with the consent of the owner, the planning commission shall give seven days notice to the residents and owners of all properties which are immediately adjacent and opposite from the property in question. Such notice shall give intent to consider at a public hearing the granting of the use permit. Upon filing of an application for use permit the planning director shall give notice by mail of the time, place and purpose thereof to the applicant as well as to the public in general. Within twenty days following the termination of the public hearing on a use permit the planning commission shall announce its findings by formal report, and such report shall recite among other things the facts and reasons which, in its opinion, made the granting or denial of the use permit necessary to carry out the provisions and general purpose of these regulations, and shall order that the use permit be granted or denied, and if such report orders that the use permit be granted it shall also recite such conditions and limitations as it may impose. The formal report of the planning commission announcing its findings and orders after a hearing on and application for use permit shall become a permanent record in the files of the planning commission. No later than ten days following the rendering of a decision ordering that a use permit be granted or denied a copy of the report shall be mailed to the applicant, any other person requesting such report, and to the state's Coastal Commission.

The order of the planning commission in granting or denying a use permit shall become final and effective ten days after the rendering of its report granting or denying the use permit unless within such tenday period an appeal in writing is filed with the city by any person dissatisfied with the decision of the planning commission. The filing of such appeal within such limit shall stay the effective date of the order of the planning commission until such times as the council has acted on the appeal.

Not later than ten days following the adoption of a resolution ordering that a use permit be granted or denied, a copy of such resolution shall be mailed to the applicant, any other parties requesting notice of the action, and to the state's Coastal Commission, and one copy shall be attached to the planning commission's file on the case and such file returned to the planning commission for permanent filing.