The Board of Adjustment may reverse or affirm,
wholly or in part, or may modify the action, order, requirement, decision,
interpretation or determination appealed from, and to that end, the
Board shall have all the powers of the administrative officer from
whom the appeal is taken.
An appeal to the Board of Adjustment shall stay
all proceedings in furtherance of the action in respect to which the
decision appealed from was made, unless the officer from whose action
the appeal is taken certifies to the Board after the notice of appeal
is filed with him that, by reason of facts stated in the certificate,
a stay would, in his opinion, cause imminent peril to life or property.
In such case, proceedings shall not be stayed except by order of the
Superior Court.
Any variance from the terms of this chapter
hereafter granted by the Board of Adjustment permitting the erection
or alteration of any structure or structures or permitting a specified
use of any premises shall expire by limitation unless such construction
or alteration shall have been actually commenced on each and every
structure permitted by said variance, or unless such permitted use
has actually been commenced, within one year from the date of entry
of the judgment or determination of the Board of Adjustment; except,
however, that the running of the period of limitation herein provided
shall be tolled from the date of filing an appeal from the decision
of the Board of Adjustment to the governing body, or to a court of
competent jurisdiction, until the termination in any manner of such
appeal or proceeding.