1.   Jurisdiction. The City Council is hereby vested with the following jurisdiction and authority pertaining to this chapter:

   A.   To appoint the Building and Zoning Enforcement Officer whose responsibility will be to enforce the provisions of this chapter; Commission is provided for in this chapter and the Code of Iowa.

   B.   To receive and act upon all recommendations concerning amendments, supplements, changes, or repeal of the Zoning chapter submitted to them by the Planning and Zoning Commission;

   C.   To receive from the Planning and Zoning Commission all recommendations on the effectiveness of this chapter; and,

   D.   To act upon all matters upon which it is required to do so under this chapter.

2.   Rules of Procedures – Meetings (Pertaining to this chapter). Any official meeting called for or requested to be held by the City Council in the administration of this chapter will be held at 6:00 p.m. on the first or third Monday of each month, unless otherwise provided for herein or provided for in Chapter 17 of this Code. Further, the City Council’s formal hearing, review, and consideration of any zoning or subdivision ordinance related matters will take place no sooner than 10 days following the Commission’s hearing and final action on the matter, unless another hearing date is otherwise established by resolution of the City Council.

All meetings conducted by the City Council will be open to the public subject to the allowances provided for in Chapter 17. Any person may appear and testify at the meeting, when recognized by the Mayor, either in person, or they may be represented by a duly authorized agent.

The City Council may approve or deny a request, in whole or in part, and may “conditionally” approve or deny a request as they so deem necessary and appropriate. Further, meetings of the City Council may be temporarily adjourned and reconvened at a later date without taking any action as deemed necessary and appropriate by a majority approval of the Council members.

Any petitioned matter submitted to the City Council may be withdrawn, amended, or consideration and action upon said matter may be temporarily postponed, once, for a period not to exceed 30 days from the date of the originally scheduled meeting, providing a detailed, written, explanatory request from the petitioner asking for said withdrawal, time extension, or amendment of said petition is received by the City Clerk no later than four working days prior to the originally schedule meeting date. If such a request is properly and timely filed, the City Council will continue to meet as scheduled and, in the case of a request for a withdrawal of the petition, the City Council will acknowledge the request for the permanent record and grant the request.

In the case of a request for a temporary extension of time or amendment to the original petition, the City Council will continue to meet as scheduled and will acknowledge the request for an extension or amendment for the permanent record and consider and act upon the request(s) at the meeting. The City Council may grant, deny, or “conditionally” grant or deny the request for the full-time extension requested or some other time extension as the City Council may deem appropriate, but any such extension will not exceed 30 days as spelled out above. If the City Council denies a request for an extension, then the meeting will be conducted as scheduled or deny the requests to consider and act upon an amended petition as the City Council may deem appropriate. Any additional expenses incurred by the City as a result of granting an extension or amendment request which was submitted by the petitioner will be borne by the petitioner and paid in full to the City prior to the date set for the rescheduled meeting.

Further, consideration and action upon said matter may be temporarily postponed, once, for a period not to exceed 30 days from the date of the originally schedule meeting, providing a detailed, written, explanatory request for such action, signed by 20 percent or more of the property owners whose property boundaries lie within 200 feet, inclusive of any and all public and quasi-public right-of-way distances, of the boundaries of the property upon which the proposed matter is to be considered, is received by the City Clerk no later than four working days prior to the originally scheduled meeting date.