The Town Board may, on its own motion or upon recommendation of the Planning Board, or upon petition by any person within the zoning jurisdiction, after public notice and hearing, amend or repeal the regulations or the maps which are a part of this chapter. No regulation or maps shall be amended, supplemented, changed, modified or repealed until after a public hearing in relation thereto, at which all parties in interest and citizens shall have an opportunity to be heard. A notice of the public hearing shall be given once a week for 2 successive weeks in a newspaper of general circulation in the town, notice to be published the first time not less than 10 days and that all owners of properties immediately adjacent thereto, either in the rear thereof or on either side thereof extending 500 feet from the street frontage of opposite lots. Further that this be incorporated in § 154.048. That certified mailing shall include schedule of Planning Board meeting date to allow comments from property owners.
(G.S. 160A-364) (Ord. passed 1-14-1997)