(A) In order for an amendment to this chapter’s text or a change in the zoning classification affecting the zoning map to be made in accordance with this chapter, a public hearing must first be held by the Town Council.
(B) Notification of the public hearing shall be as follows.
(1) A notice shall be published in a newspaper having general circulation in the town once a week, for two successive weeks, the first notice to be published not less than ten days, nor more than 25 days prior to the date established for the hearing. If first-class mail notification is not required as per division (B)(3) below, then the town shall publish a notice in accordance with the requirements stated in division (B)(3) below.
(2) If a change of zoning on the zoning map is requested, the Zoning Administrator shall place at least one notice on the subject property(ies) at least ten days prior to the public hearing. Such notice shall state the existing zoning classification and the classification requested by the applicant and the date, time and location of the public hearing. The notice shall be removed only after the public hearing has been conducted and the Town Council has rendered its final decision.
(3) A notice of a proposed zoning classification change on the zoning map shall be sent by first class mail by the Zoning Administrator to all contiguous property owners for all such requests, except the first class mail notice shall not be required in the following situations:
(a) The total rezoning of all property within the corporate boundaries unless rezoning involves zoning parcels of land to a less intense or more restrictive uses. If rezoning involves zoning of parcels of land to less intense or more restrictive uses, notification to owners of these parcels shall be made by first class mail;
(b) The rezoning action directly affects more than 50 properties, owned by a total of at least 50 different property owners; or
(c) The rezoning is an amendment to the zoning text.
(C) If first class notice is not required in this section, then the town shall publish a notice once a week for four successive calendar weeks in a newspaper having general circulation in the town. Such notice shall include a map showing the boundaries of the area affected by the proposed ordinance or amendment. The map shall not be less than one-half of a newspaper page in size and the Zoning Administrator shall send first class mail notices of the proposed ordinance or amendment to all property owners who reside outside the town’s jurisdiction or outside of the newspaper circulation area, according to the address listed on the most recent property tax listing for the affected property.
(D) The Zoning Administrator shall certify to the town that the proper first class mail notifications were made to required property owners.
(Ord. passed - -, § 10.6)