(A) Ordinances or resolutions establishing, amending, revising, changing, or repealing zoning classifications, districts, uses, or regulations shall be initiated by a member of Council. Immediately after the first reading of the ordinance or resolution, the Presiding Officer of Council shall set a date for a public hearing before a joint meeting of Council and the Planning Commission, not earlier than 15 days after the first reading. The Clerk of Council shall cause a notice of the public hearing to be published one time in a newspaper or advertising tabloid of general circulation within the Municipality, said publication to be made at least seven days prior to the date of the public hearing. When the amendment, revision, change, or repeal involves ten or less parcels of land as listed on the tax duplicate, written notice of the hearing shall be mailed by the Clerk of Council by certified mail with return receipt requested at least seven days before the date of the public hearing, to the owners of the property within, contiguous to, and directly across the street from the affected parcel or parcels. Such notice shall be sent to the addresses of owners appearing on the County Auditor's current tax list and to other lists as may be required by Council. The failure to send or deliver the notice shall not invalidate any ordinance or resolution.
(B) Immediately after the public hearing referred to in division (A) of this section, a copy of each ordinance or resolution establishing, amending, revising, changing, or repealing zoning classifications, districts, uses, or regulations shall be referred to the Planning Commission. Within 15 days after receipt of referral, the Planning Commission shall return to the Clerk of Council the written recommendations of a majority of the members of the Commission. The ordinance or resolution shall be given its second and third readings at subsequent regular or special meetings of the Council, unless such additional readings are dispensed with as provided for by Section 4.04 of this Charter.
(C) A concurring vote of at least two-thirds of the members of Council shall be necessary to pass any zoning ordinance or resolution which differs from the written recommendations of the Planning Commission, but in no event shall an ordinance or resolution be considered as having passed unless it receives at least a majority vote of the members of Council.