(A) Public hearing by Planning and Zoning Board. No amendment, supplement or repeal of the code and no development approval granted hereunder shall be made until after the Planning and Zoning Board shall hold a public hearing in relation thereto, and make its recommendation thereon for final action by the Town Council, which shall likewise require a public hearing. At all such public hearings, parties in interest, residents and citizens shall have an opportunity to be heard on the application being considered.
(B) Public notice for public meetings and public hearings.
(1) Before a public meeting or a public hearing is held by the Town Council, or by the Local Planning Agency, or by the Planning and Zoning Board, or by the Board of Adjustment, or by the Land Development Regulation Commission, the town shall give public notice of such meeting and/or hearing shall by posting a written notice thereof in public display at the entrance to the Town Hall and at two other prominent places within the town at least three days before the date of the public meeting or public hearing. The notice shall contain sufficient information to identify the date, time, place and general purpose of the public meeting or public hearing. This notice may be in the form of a copy of the agenda for the public meeting that identifies the public hearing listed thereon and contains the additional information as herein above set forth. Publication of a notice of a public meeting or a public hearing that appears as a legal advertisement in a newspaper printed in the county may be omitted unless otherwise required by law.
(2) In the event that the specific action to be taken at a public meeting or at a public hearing by the Town Council, or by the Local Planning Agency, or by the Planning and Zoning Board, or by the Board of Adjustment, or by the Land Development Regulation Commission requires that the public notice thereof shall be published in a newspaper as a legal notice thereof, then the town shall publish such legal notice according to the notice procedures required and described by the governing law applicable thereto.
(C) Alternate notice. In lieu of publishing a notice of such public hearing or meeting in a newspaper as provided herein, the town may mail or otherwise serve a notice of the public hearing to each person owning real property or residing within a radius of 200 feet of the area covered by the petition to amend, supplement or repeal the code or to grant an approval hereunder. Said written notice shall provide at least seven days’ notice of the meeting date and the time and place of the meeting. The failure, however, to mail or receive such courtesy notice shall not affect any action or proceedings taken hereunder.
(Ord. 1-90, passed 1-31-1991; Ord. 1-08, passed 2-28-2008)