An application for the permit referred to in Section 16.16.030 shall be filed with the City Clerk and the applicant shall at the time of filing the application pay to the City Clerk such filing fee as shall hereafter be fixed by City Council resolution to cover the City’s cost of investigating the application. The application shall be accompanied by two sets of plans and specifications showing the proposed fill, the materials to be used therein, the method and procedures to be used for such filling, and the bulkheads, revetments or other structures to be installed to hold such fill in place; and, if the application be for excavation, the location, area and depth thereof and the place in which the excavated material will be placed; and, if the application be for placing piling or other structures therein, plans and specifications therefor showing the size, materials, location and depth to which the same will be imbedded. Within five days from the receipt of such application and fee, the City Clerk shall submit the application and accompanying papers to the City engineer who shall, within fifteen days thereafter, either grant or deny the permit or grant it upon such conditions, to be stated in the permit, as are deemed necessary to effect the purpose of this Chapter. The City engineer shall forthwith notify the applicant of his action and the applicant, if he is dissatisfied with the action of the City engineer, may within five days thereafter file with the City Clerk a notice of appeal accompanied by a list of the names and addresses of all owners of property abutting on the Bay or other inundated land within a distance of one thousand feet on each side of the property which applicant purposes to fill or place pilings or other structures therein. The appeal shall be accompanied by such filing fee as shall be hereafter fixed by City Council resolution. The City Clerk shall set such appeal for hearing before the City Council on the second succeeding regular meeting. after the date of filing such appeal and shall mail written notice of such hearing at least ten days prior thereto to all such property owners. The hearing may be continued from time to time, and at its conclusion the Council shall make its findings and shall grant or deny the application or grant it on such terms as it, in its discretion, deems necessary for the protection of the public health, welfare and safety. (Ord. 82-5 § 8, 1982; Ord. 143 NS § 3, 1966; prior code § 11-2.)