Council may, from time to time, upon its own motion or upon petition, after public notice and hearing, amend the regulations and districts herein established. Every such proposed amendment shall be referred by Council to the Planning and Zoning Commission for report. Any such amendment that has failed to receive the approval of the Commission shall not be passed by Council except by a three-fourths vote. If a protest against such amendment is presented duly signed and acknowledged by the owners of twenty percent of the land within such area proposed to be altered, such amendment shall not be passed except by a three-fourths vote of Council. If such amendment will transfer an area to a less restricted use, height or area district, and a protest is presented duly signed and acknowledged by the owners of twenty percent of the land adjacent to and within 200 feet from such area proposed to be transferred, and within a more restricted use, height or area district than the district in which such area is proposed to be transferred, such amendment shall not be passed except by a three-fourths vote of Council.
Whenever the owners of fifty percent of the land in any area shall present a duly signed and acknowledged petition to Council, requesting an amendment of the regulations prescribed for such area, it shall be the duty of Council to vote upon such amendment within ninety days after the filing of the same by the petitioners with the Clerk.
If any area is hereafter transferred to another district by a change in the district boundaries by amendment as provided in this section, the provisions of this Zoning Code with regard to buildings or premises existing at the time of the passage of this Zoning Code shall apply to buildings or premises existing in such transferred areas at the time of the passage of such amendment.
(Ord. 450. Passed 6-13-38.)