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2 MINNESOTA STATU ES 2009 394.27 pursuant to the provision of sections 394.21 to 394.37, order the issuance of permits for buildings in areas designated for future public use on an official 1 ap, and perform such other duties as required by the official controls. Such appeal may be t.I en by any person aggrieved or by any officer, department, board or bureau of a town, municisality, county, or state. In exercising its powers under this subdivision, the board of adjustment shall take into consideration the town board's recommendation when the board of adjustment s decision directly affects land within the town. I Subd. 6. Appeals.An appeal from any order, requirement, decision, or determination of any administrative official shall be taken in such time as sh. 11 be prescribed by the ordinance creating the board of adjustment by filing with the board of adj stment a notice of appeal specifying the grounds thereof. The board of adjustment shall fix reasonable time for the hearing of the I appeal and give due notice thereof to the appellant and the officer from whom the appeal is taken and to the public and decide the same within a reasonable time which shall be defined in the ordinance establishing the board of adjustment. An appeal stays all proceedings in furtherance of the action appealed from unless the board of adjustment to whom the appeal is taken certifies that by reason of the facts stated in the certificate a stay would cause imminent peril to life or property. The board of adjustment may reverse or affirrii wholly or partly, or may modify the order, requirement, decision, or determination appealed from and to that end shall have all the powers of the officer from whom the appeal was taken and may direct the issuance of a permit. The reasons for the board's decision shall be stated in writing. Subd. 7. Variances; hardship. The board of adjustment shall have the exclusive power to order the issuance of variances from the terms of any official control including restrictions placed on nonconformities. Variances shall only be permitted when they are in harmony with the general purposes and intent of the official control in cases when!there are practical difficulties or particular hardship in the way of carrying out the strict letter of a y official control, and when the terms of the variance are consistent with the comprehensive lan. "Hardship" as used in connection with the granting of a variance means the property in q estion cannot be put to a reasonable use if used under the conditions allowed by the official controls; the plight of the landowner is due to circumstances unique to the property not created by the landowner; and the variance, if granted, will not alter the essential character of the loc lity. Economic considerations alone shall not constitute a hardship if a reasonable use for th property exists under the terms of the ordinance. Variances shall be granted for earth she4red construction as defined in section 216C.06, subdivision 14,when in harmony with the offs ial controls.No variance may be granted that would allow any use that is prohibited in the zonin district in which the subject property is located. The board of adjustment may impose conditio s in the granting of variances to insure 1 I I 1 Copyright©2009 by the Revisor of Statutes,State okf Minnesota.All Rights Reserved.