Application for amendments to the Zoning Plan shall be filed in accordance with the filing procedures adopted by the Planning Commission adapted from Ohio R.C. 713.12 Ohio Revised Code and summarized as follows:
(a) An amendment, supplement, reclassification, or change may be initiated by the Planning Commission or Council on its own motion or by a verified application of one or more of the owners or lessees of property within the area proposed to be changed or affected by this Zoning Ordinance.
(b) Once the application is filed and fees paid, the Planning Commission shall set a date for a public hearing which shall not be less than twenty nor more than forty days from the filing date. Notice of the hearing shall be given in a newspaper of general circulation in the Village at least fifteen days before the hearing date.
(c) If the proposed amendment or supplement requests rezoning or redistricting of less than ten parcels of land, as listed on the tax duplicate, written notice of the hearings shall be mailed to property owners within 300 feet of the proposed area. The failure of delivery of such notice shall not invalidate any such amendment or supplement.
(d) The Planning Commission shall, within thirty days after such hearing, recommend the approval or denial of the proposed amendment or supplement, or the approval of some modification thereof and submit such recommendation to Council.
(e) Council shall, upon receipt of such recommendation, set a time for public hearing on the proposal, which date shall not be more than thirty days from the date of the receipt of such recommendation from the Planning Commission. Notice of the hearing shall be given in a newspaper of general circulation in the Village at least fifteen days before the hearing date.
(f) Within twenty days after such public hearing Council shall either adopt or deny the recommendations of the Planning Commission or adopt some modification thereof. Council may deny or modify the Planning Commission on recommendation, but it shall require five votes of Council.
(g) Such amendment or supplement adopted by Council shall become effective in thirty days after the date of such adoption, unless within thirty days after the adoption of the amendment or supplement there is presented to the Council a petition, signed by a number of qualified voters residing in the Village equal to not less than eight percent (8%) of the total vote cast for all candidates for governor in the Village at the last preceding general election at which a governor was elected, requesting the Council to submit the amendment or supplement to the electors of the Village for approval or rejection at the next primary or general election.
(h) No amendment or supplement for which such referendum vote has been requested shall be put into effect unless a majority of the vote cast on the issue is in favor of the amendment. Upon Certification by the Board of Elections that the amendment has been approved by the voters, it shall take immediate effect.
(Ord. 74-8. Passed 10-3-74.)