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(B) The Housing Council is hereby authorized to establish a fee schedule and charge applicants for its initial review and analysis of applications, and for subsequent annual reviews of requests granted. The total amount of the fees chazged in any tax abatement sha11 not exceed $500.00 or ten percent (10%) of the total amount of the tax abatement requested, whichever is greater. No fee sha11 be charged for applications involving single family homes. (C) The Housing Council is further authorized to contract with and retain the services of a consultant or consultants to review and analyze applications for tax exemption, and to make any subsequent annual reviews of a request granted. Said consultant or consultants shall be paid a fee which shall not exceed the total amount of the fees charged by the Housing Council to the applicant pursuant to pazagraph (B) above, less any charges made by the State or County, and any expenses incuned by the City. (D) Upon receipt and review of the recommendation of the Housing Council with respect to an application for tax abatement, and his approval of the same, the Mayor is hereby authorized to enter into an agreement with the applicant which will provide for the exemptions from real property taxation available pursuant to this Chapter, and establish the terms under which the application will be granted and forwazded to the County Auditor, including but not limited to the percentage of the improvement to be exempted from real property taxation and whether payments in lieu of taxes are to be required; provided, however, no such agreement shall either permit any exemption period other than as described in Section 171.03 or allow for the exemption of any improvement not described in Section 171.03. (E) The Housing Officer shall not submit any application to the County Auditor unless and until the Mayor has approved the submission of such application to the County Auditor. " be amended, and, as amended, shall read as follows: ° 171.06 APPLICATIONS FOR EXEMP'rION; PROCEDURE. (A) Every application for exemption from real property taxation sha11 be made to the Housing Officer. If the application involves the remodeling of a single family or two family house, then the Housing Officer shall process the application in strict accordance with the provisions of Sections 3735.65 et seq. of the Ohio Revised Code as applicable to pre-1994 CRAs. If the application involves the remodeling of residential property containing more than two units, or the construction or remodeling of commercial or industrial property, excluding properties primarily used in making retail sales, then the Housing Officer shall immediately forward such application to the Housing Council for its review, analysis and recommendation to the Mayor. 2