Certificate of Appropriateness. Where an application for development is referred by the Zoning Officer to the Historic Preservation Commission for review pursuant to this section, the applicant shall be required to submit an "application for certificate of appropriateness" to the Zoning Officer. As part of this application, the Historic Preservation Commission may require the submission of such materials as are reasonably required for it to make a recommendation on the application. This application shall accompany the application for development when it is referred to the Historic Preservation Commission for review and must be complete in order to be considered. The Historic Preservation Commission shall advise the applicant in writing of the time, date and place of the meeting at which the matter will be reviewed at least three (3) days prior to the meeting.

The Historic Preservation Commission may advise other interested parties of the meeting and may publish notices of the meeting in the newspaper. The applicant shall not be required to appear or to be represented at the meeting. The applicant may appear at the meeting and may submit additional information as he so chooses.

The applicant shall not be required to appear at or be represented at any meeting of the commission at which the Commission will consider the application for C/A, regardless of the ultimate findings and report of the Commission.

As soon as possible but no later than forty-five (45) days after the administrative officer has referred the application to the Commission, the Commission shall return to the administrative officer its written report granting or denying the application which report may be stated in resolution form. The Commission shall file said report with the administrative officer, together with the C/A if granted, within ten (10) days of the Commission's decision on the application, and, on the same date, shall forward a copy of the report and C/A to the applicant by personal service or by certified mail, return receipt requested.

If within the above forty-five (45) day period, the Commission has denied the issuance of a C/A required for the issuance of a permit or recommended that conditions be met prior to the issuance of a permit, the administrative officer shall deny issuance of the permit or include the conditions as the case may be.

Failure of the Commission to report within the forty-five (45) day period shall be deemed to constitute a recommendation in favor of issuance of the permit and without the recommendation of conditions to the permit.

Time Limit and Effect of Certificate of Appropriateness. A certificate of appropriateness, which shall only be granted by the Zoning Officer upon a recommendation by the Historic Preservation Commission, shall confer upon the applicant the right that the general terms and conditions upon which the certificate was granted shall not be changed for one (1) year. Any certificate thereafter granted shall expire by limitation unless the approved activity has commenced within one (1) year of the date of the certificate. The Zoning Officer, acting on the advice of the Historic Preservation Commission, may extend the time period. Where other approvals or permits are required pursuant to this section, the certificate of appropriateness shall be valid for the life of those approvals or permits or extensions thereof.