A. The Planning and Development Director or his designee is authorized to grant variances from the provisions of this Article prescribing construction design standards for driveways and alleys, and alley access requirements as to private development projects, and the Street Transportation Director or his designee is authorized to grant variances from the provisions of this Article prescribing construction design standards for driveways, and alleys and alley access requirements as to capital improvement projects, except as hereinafter prohibited, upon written application showing that undue and extreme hardship would result from:

B. Applications for variances shall be decided within thirty days of the date of filing or within such longer period of time agreed to by the applicant and the official responsible for hearing the application. If no decision has been made at the expiration of such time period, the application shall be deemed denied for the purpose of the applicant’s right to further administrative review.

C. Decisions under this section may be appealed within thirty days of the decision to the Development Advisory Board who shall review the application and decision and make such disposition of the matter as is required by the facts and the applicable law. (Ord. No. G-3709, § 2; Ord. No. G-4176, § 2, 1999; Ord. No. G-5590, § 1, 2011)