(a) Applications for Amendments. Applications for any change of district boundaries or classification of property as shown on the Zoning Map shall be submitted to the Planning Commission, at its public office, upon such forms and accompanied by such data and information as may be prescribed for that purpose by the Commission, so as to assure the fullest practicable presentation of facts for the permanent record. Each application shall be verified by at least one of the owners or lessees of property within the area proposed to be reclassified, attesting to the truth and correctness of all facts and information presented with the applications. Applications for amendments initiated by the Commission itself shall be accompanied by its own motion pertaining to such proposed amendment.
(b) List of Property Owners. Any person desiring a change in the zoning classification of property shall file with the application for such change a statement giving the names and addresses of the owners of all properties lying within the premises the zoning classification of which is proposed to be changed, and within 200 feet of any part of the exterior boundaries of such premises.
(c) Notice and Hearing. Before submitting its recommendations on a proposed amendment or reclassification to Council, the Commission shall hold at least one public hearing thereon, notice of which shall be given by one publication in a newspaper of general circulation in the City at least thirty days before the date of such hearing. The notice shall state the place and time at which the proposed amendment to the Zoning Code, including text and maps, may be examined.
(d) Recommendation to Council. Following such hearing the Commission may recommend that the application be granted as requested, or it may recommend a modification of the zoning amendment requested in the application, or it may recommend that the application not be granted. These recommendations shall then be certified to Council.
(e) Council Hearing. After receiving from the Commission the certification of such recommendations on the proposed amendment or amendments, and before adoption of such amendment, Council shall hold a public hearing thereon, as required by statute, and at least thirty days notice of the time and place of such hearing shall be given in one publication in a newspaper of general circulation in the City.
(f) Final Action of Council. Following such hearing and after reviewing the recommendations of the Commission thereon, Council shall consider such recommendations and vote on the passage of the proposed amendment to the text of the Zoning Code or the Zoning Map. Council may overrule the recommendations of the Commission by a three-fourths vote of the full membership of Council.
(Ord. 1240. Passed 2-28-66.)
(g) Fees. Each application for a zoning amendment, except those initiated by the Commission, shall be accompanied by a check payable to the Treasurer of the City or a cash payment sufficient to cover the costs of publishing, posting and/or mailing notices of hearings, but in no event shall it be less than one hundred dollars ($100.00).