§ 260-85
Powers and duties
The Board shall have the following powers and duties:
- A. To hear and decide appeals within 65 days of the date of the filing of the appeal where it is alleged there is an error in any order, requirement, decision, or determination made by an administrative officer or agency in the enforcement or interpretation of this chapter, or of any ordinance adopted pursuant hereto.
Editor's Note: Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. IV).
- B. To hear and decide appeals from a party aggrieved by a decision of the Historic District Commission, pursuant to the Historical Zoning Enabling Legislation.
Editor's Note: See R.I.G.L. § 45-24.1-1 et seq.
- C. To authorize, upon application, in specific cases of hardship, variances in the application of the terms of this chapter.
- D. To authorize, upon application, in specific cases, special use permits.
- E. To refer matters to the Planning Board or to other boards or agencies of the Town as the Board may deem appropriate for findings and recommendations.
- F. To authorize, upon application, conditional zoning approvals where a proposed application would otherwise be approved, except that one or more state or federal agency approvals which are necessary are pending. A conditional zoning approval shall be revoked in the instance where any necessary state or federal agency approvals are not received within a specified time period.
- G. To hear and decide such other matters according to the terms of the ordinance or other statutes and upon which such Board may be authorized to pass under such ordinance or other statutes.
- H. To determine whether new evidence/information previously unavailable would warrant the reconsideration of a previous decision of the Board.
- I. To amend and/or reconsider a previous decision of the Board, including reconsiderations of parts of a decision.
- J. To authorize by special use permit relief from the dimensional and intensity regulations of this chapter for any use the Board authorizes by special use permit. See Article III, § 260-8E.