(B) Amendments. This chapter may be amended by the majority vote of the City Council only after a public hearing has been held by the Planning Commission to consider the amendment. If the Planning Commission has not made a recommendation within 60 days of the hearing the City Council can act without a Planning Commission recommendation.
(C) Initiation. Proceedings for a petition or an amendment under this chapter shall be initiated by:
(1) A petition of the owner for a subdivision by preliminary plat, final plat, waiver or variance;
(2) An action of the Planning Commission; or
(3) An action of the City Council.
(D) Petitions. All petitions for a subdivision by preliminary plat which are initiated by the owner or owners of the property shall be filed with the City Clerk and the application shall be accompanied by an abstractor's certified property certificate showing the property owners within 350 feet of the outer boundaries of the property in question. The petition shall be forwarded to the Planning Commission.
(E) Public hearing, notice and procedure. The Planning Commission shall hold a public hearing on all petitions for subdivision affording the parties interested the opportunity to be heard and shall give not less than a ten-day notice of time and place of the hearing, published in the designated legal newspaper of the city. The notice shall also include the description of the land and a summary of the proposed subdivision. At least ten days before the hearing, the City Clerk shall mail an identical notice to the owners of the property and to each of the property owners within 350 feet of the outside boundaries of the land proposed to be subdivided. Failure to give mail notice to individual property owners or defects in the notice shall not invalidate the proceeding, provided a bona fide attempt to comply with this section has been made.
(‘81 Code, § B1-51) (Ord. 293, passed 4-21-83; Am. Ord. 963, passed 4-24-14)