(a) If either:
(1) The landowners owning lands which are specially assessed in the existing district that have a real property tax assessed value of more than 51 percent of the total real property tax assessed value of land specially assessed in the existing district;
(2) The landowners owning lands which are proposed to be annexed and specially assessed that have a real property tax assessed value of more than 51 percent of the total real property tax assessed value of land proposed to be annexed and specially assessed;
(3) More than 51 percent of the owners of lands which are specially assessed in the existing district; or
(4) More than 51 percent of the owners of land which are proposed to be annexed and specially assessed;
file written protests with the council before or at the public hearing against the proposed annexation and if protests are not withdrawn so as to reduce the amount of the protests to 51 percent or less, the annexation proceedings shall cease.
Section 28-2.4(c) and (d) shall apply to protests under this section.
(b) If the annexation proceedings cease pursuant to subsection (a), no proceedings to annex the land shall be undertaken for a period of 90 days from the close of the hearing.
(1990 Code, Ch. 36, Art. 5, § 36-5.6) (Added by Ord. 00-13)