If the owners of more than 55 percent of the land or if more than 55 percent of the owners of the land proposed to be included in the district file written protests with the council before or at the hearing against the establishment of the district and if protests are not withdrawn so as to reduce the amount of the protests to 55 percent or less, the proceedings to create the specified district shall cease. No proceedings to create the district shall again be undertaken for a period of one year from the close of the hearing.
If the more than 55 percent protests are only against the furnishing of a specified special improvement or against levying a specified special tax, then proceedings to create the district may continue, but the specified special improvement or special tax shall not be part of the applicable ordinance of formation (if approved).
(1990 Code, Ch. 34, Art. 2, § 34-2.9) (Added by Ord. 96-18)