(a) Any comprehensive or master plan designed to guide or regulate or control the development of the entire City through zoning ordinances in effect or to be enacted shall be submitted to the electors of the City. A majority of those voting at any regular or special election wherein such comprehensive or master plan shall have been submitted to the electorate, must approve the same, otherwise such proposed plan shall have no force or effect. Amendments to or repeal of any comprehensive or master plan, or any part thereof, shall likewise be submitted to the electorate, and a majority of those voting upon such amendment or repeal shall approve the same prior to any amendment or repeal having any force or effect.
(b) The Council may provide by ordinance for the procedure for the passage and amendments to any zoning ordinance, the maps and regulations thereof, and the publication of notice and public hearings thereof, provided that the minimum notice of the time and place of such public hearing shall be published once a week for two (2) consecutive weeks in a newspaper of general circulation in the city, with the first such notice being published not less than thirty days (30) prior to the first public hearing at which Council considers such ordinance. In the event it is proposed to amend, enlarge, or change any area, zone or district classification, defined in an enacted ordinance, then, in addition to the newspaper notice hereinbefore provided, notice of the time and place of such public hearing shall be given by first class mail, postage pre-paid, ten (10) days before such hearing, to the record title holders of the property within an area of five hundred (500) feet, or greater as may be provided by ordinance of Council, of such area, zone, or district proposed to be changed. Record title holder shall mean the title holder of such property as disclosed by the Records of the Cuyahoga County Office of Fiscal Officer, thirty (30) days immediately prior to the date of such public hearing. If the mailing address of such record title holder cannot be reasonably ascertained, then the aforesaid newspaper notice of such hearing shall be deemed adequate notice. Nothing herein provided shall be construed as limiting the power of the Council from enlarging on such notice. Any such zoning action shall be referred to the Planning and Design Commission as provided in Article VII, Section 2(d) of the Charter.
(Amended 11-6-73; 11-2-99; 11-5-19)