(A)   The board of zoning appeals shall hold regular annual meetings in January of every year, and additional meetings thereafter during the year as needed to her applications filed with the board and as determined necessary by the chairperson of the board. Each member shall be notified five days in advance of the meeting.

   (B)   If an appeal is received at least five days before a regularly scheduled meeting of the- board, the- board shall consider the appeal and shall hold a hearing within 45 days from the meeting date.

   (C)   A decision shall be rendered within 30 days from the date of the hearing unless an extension of time i8 mutually agreed upon. Failure to render a decision within that period shall be considered approval.

   (D)   Notice of the time and place of hearings shall be mailed by first-class mail by the clerk-treasurer to the applicant, to all abutting property owners, and to other property owners determined by the board to be affected by the case as they appear in the current records of the county. Property owners shall be notified at least two weeks prior to the hearing. Notice shall also be published once each week for two consecutive weeks prior to the hearing in a newspaper of general circulation in the village.

   (E)   All meetings and hearings of the board shall be open to the public. The board shall have the power to administer oaths and to produce reports, findings, and other evidence pertinent to any issue referred to the board for a decision.

   (F)   Minutes of a board of zoning appeals hearing will be taken, which together with the board's findings of fact, and exhibits that are submitted during the hearing, shall be considered to be the record of the hearing, for appeal purposes. Any person desiring a recording of all the testimony at a hearing shall be responsible to bring a stenographer or to record the hearing, and maintain such recording, for purposes of any R.C. Chapter 2506 appeal. Forms for appeal from a zoning denial to the board of zoning appeals shall advise the applicant of the foregoing in writing.

   (G)   All testimony from the applicant and the public, for or against a zoning appeal, shall be under oath.

(Ord. 895, passed 2-18-64; Am. Ord. 5-2016, passed 7-18-2016; Am. Ord. 10-2022, passed 5-2-22)