(A) Upon receipt of the Joint City-County Planning Commission’s recommendation, the City Council shall adopt, reject or modify the proposed amendment in accordance with its usual procedures.
(B) It shall take a majority of the entire City Commission to override the recommendation of the Joint City-County Planning Commission and it shall take a majority of the entire City Commission to adopt a zoning map amendment whenever the Joint City-County Planning Commission forwards the proposed amendment to the City Council without a recommendation of approval or disapproval due to a tie vote.
(C) Unless a majority of the entire City Commission votes to override the Joint City-County Planning Commission’s recommendation, the recommendation shall become final and effective and if a recommendation of approval was made by the Joint City-County Planning Commission, the ordinance of the City Commission adopting the zoning map amendment shall be deemed to have passed by operation of law.
(D) In the case where the proposed amendment is to the text of this chapter, it shall take an affirmative vote of a majority of the City Commission to adopt the proposed amendment.
(1989 Code, § 154.239) (Ord. 1063, passed - -1967; Am. Ord. 2124, passed 8-28-1995; Am. Ord. 2774, passed - -; Am. Ord. 2018-2916, passed 4-9-2018)