[Amended 2-20-2008]
Applications for variances or special permits or appeals to overrule an administrative official or the Building Inspector will be available in the Building Inspector's office. These must be filled out completely and correctly. Incomplete and incorrect applications may be returned to the petitioner, applicant or appellant or rejected at the meeting. A rejection at the meeting may result in a denial of the application.
A. 
The Town Clerk will receive all complete and correctly filled out applications for variances or special permits or appeals, noting the time and date of acceptance. This becomes the legal date of filing. The Clerk's stamp does not validate an incorrect or incomplete form. New forms, if needed, must be reaccepted and redated by the Town Clerk when correct.
B. 
Petitions for appeals of decisions by the Board of Appeals must be correctly filed within 20 days of the date the decision is received by the Town Clerk.
C. 
Petitions for appeals to the Board of Appeals where a person is aggrieved by reason of inability to obtain a permit, or by enforcement action, from any zoning administrator(s) must be correctly filed within 30 days from the date said decision or order is filed with the Town Clerk.
[Amended 2-20-2008]
A. 
Each application, when submitted to the Town Clerk for validation, shall be accompanied by a check in the amount of $200 to cover administrative costs plus an amount equal to first class postage and certified mail fee times the number of abutters and abutters to abutters that must be notified. The check shall be made out to the Town of Orleans.
[Amended 7-21-2010]
B. 
The applicant bears all responsibility for recording at the Registry of Deeds any special permit or variance or comprehensive permit granted by the Board.
[Amended 5-21-2008]
[Amended 2-20-2008]
A. 
All applications shall be accompanied by scale drawings of the site(s) under discussion showing all information pertinent to the hearing. This should include, where appropriate, dimensions, setbacks, contours, parking layout, landscaping, structures (extant or proposed), dates of construction of existing structures and coverage calculation, drainage and elevations of land and structures.
B. 
Copies of other decisions relative to the case shall be included. These must include any required determinations of other Town committees as specified in the application.
C. 
Failure to provide any of the specified materials may result in denial or continuance of the application as the Board may deem to be appropriate.
A. 
Owners of abutting land to that involved in the petition, owners of land directly opposite that involved in the petition on any public or private way or street (also called "abutters") and abutters to the aforesaid abutters whose property is within 300 feet of the petitioner's land shall be notified of the hearing. This notification shall be by certified or registered mail sent to the address as contained in the latest book of records held in the Tax Assessor's office.
B. 
The responsibility for providing the correct names and addresses of all those listed above remains that of the applicant. The names and addresses used for notification shall correspond with those that accompany the application.
[Amended 2-20-2008]
C. 
In addition, the Planning Board of Orleans and the Planning Board of the abutting towns of Eastham, Brewster, Harwich and Chatham and the petitioner and/or his representative shall be notified of the hearing by mail.
[Amended 2-20-2008]
All applications properly filed for hearing before the Board of Appeals shall be advertised in a local newspaper at least once in each of the two weeks prior to the hearing. The first date of advertisement shall be at least fourteen (14) days prior to the hearing.
Notices of the hearings shall be posted and remain on the Town Clerk's bulletin board and in the Building Inspector's office at least 14 days prior to the hearing date.