The regulations imposed and the districts created by this chapter may be amended from time to time by ordinance, but no such amendments shall be made without a hearing before the board of appeals.
The board of appeals may of its own motion, or upon petition signed by one or more property owners of any district or portion thereof, or upon instruction from the village board, cause to be prepared a notice indicating the changes proposed to be made in the regulations or in the district boundary lines, describing the boundaries of the territory to be affected. Such notice shall state the time and place of the public hearing for consideration of such proposed amendment, supplement or change, and the place where maps of the proposed amendment, supplement or change will be accessible for examination by interested parties.
Notice of such public hearing shall be published at least fifteen (15) days in advance thereof in at least one newspaper of general circulation in the village. After such public hearing, the board of appeals shall report to the village board on the proposed amendment, supplement or change, and may cause an ordinance authorizing such proposed amendment, supplement or change to be introduced in the village board. Such hearing may be adjourned from time to time. Whenever a written protest against such proposed amendment, supplement or change, signed and acknowledged by the owners of twenty percent (20%) of frontage proposed to be altered, or by the owners of twenty percent (20%) of the frontage immediately adjoining in the same block or in the block back of or across an alley therefrom, or by the owners of twenty percent (20%) of the frontage in the block directly opposite the frontage proposed to be altered, shall have been filed with the clerk within thirty (30) days after said public hearing, the ordinance providing for such proposed amendment, supplement or change shall not be passed except by the favorable vote of two-thirds (2/3) of the members of the village board. (Ord. 37, 9-11-1941)