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Section 1. AMENDMENT OF ORDINANCE 2001-117. A. Limitations on issuance of permits. This Section is revised as follows: 1. The Department of Building and Zoning shall not issue any type of permit based upon any action of the City Commission until after a final decision has been rendered by that Commission, and/or in the event of an appeal, a final decision by a court of competent jurisdiction, provided however, a temporary conditional certificate may be issued prior to the final decision if the Director of the Department can first establish that withholding of the same would cause imminent peril to life or property and then, only upon such conditions and limitations including the furnishing of an appropriate bond as may be deemed appropriate by the Director. 11. The City Commission of the City of Sunny Isles Beach may proscribe a reasonable time limit within which action on any request for a variance (use or non-use), special exception, new use, special permit or unusual use within which action is required shall be begun or completed or both. However, if no time limit is specified by the Commission or was already specified by Ordinance #98-52, then approval of any such request approved under the City's new Comprehensive Plan shall expire in two (2) years from the date granted, unless a building permit, other than a foundation or permit for the construction of a temporary structure, which is based upon and incorporating the request is issued within the aforementioned two (2) year period and construction has begun thereunder. Failure on the part of the applicant to have a permit issued (and construction begun thereunder) within the applicable time period shall cause the application for change of zoning to terminate at the expiration of said two (2)-year period, unless extended by the City Commission after a public hearing on same, that the applicant has made progress sufficient to the City Commission within its sole determination. 111. The two-year time-period stated in Section HA)(ii) to proceed with development approval shall be extended for a time period which is equal to the number of days of the time period beginning on the date that the Omnipoint decision was issued and ending on the date that all appeal periods expire with respect to a final determination of the Omnipoint case or. the adoption of the City's Land Development Regulations. whichever comes first. B. Special Notice Provisions. This Section is revised as follows: The City Clerk is hereby directed to delay the publishing of the quarterly "Notice of Amortization of Zoning Approvals" until the disposition of the Omnipoint case or the adoption of the City's Land Development Regulations. whichever comes first. When the first of these events occurs. the City Clerk shall then calculate the total days that have passed between March 6. 2002 and the earliest date 02002- Publication of Amortization Notice Amend Ord. 2001-117 2