(a) Transmittal to Planning and Zoning Commission. Following the request for consideration of a Zoning Code text or map amendment by Council or following the filing of a zoning map amendment application by at least one owner of property such motion or application shall be transmitted to the Planning and Zoning Commission.
(b) Public Hearing. The Planning and Zoning Commission shall, after its adoption of a motion with respect to a text or map change, or after receipt of a transmittal pursuant to subsection (a) hereof hold a public hearing to consider the zoning text or map amendment.
(c) Notice of Public Hearing in Newspaper. Before holding the public hearing provided in subsection (b) hereof, notice of such hearing shall be given by the Planning and Zoning Commission, by publication of a notice in a newspaper of general circulation in the City at least once, ten days prior to the meeting. This notice shall set forth the time and place of the public hearing and the nature of the proposed amendment. When the proposed action has been initiated by the City, the City shall provide at its cost the notice. When the proposed action has been initiated by a party other than the City, the initiating party shall provide at its cost the publication of the notice and shall provide, on or before the date of the hearing, an affidavit confirming compliance with the provisions of this section, which affidavit shall have attached thereto a "proof of publication" form provided by the publishing newspaper.
(d) Notice to Property Owners. Written notice of a hearing involving a map amendment shall be provided to the owners of the real property within the area to be rezoned or otherwise changed by the map amendment and to the owners within 300 feet in any direction of the boundaries of the property, within the City of Loveland, to be changed by the map amendment. For the purposes of this section, the word “owners” shall mean those persons appearing on the county's current tax duplicate as the owners of fee simple title to the real properties. Such written notice shall be provided at least ten days prior to the date of the hearing by hand delivery, or by posting it by prepaid ordinary U.S. mail at the address listed upon the tax duplicate for each such owner. The written notice shall contain the same information as required of notices published in newspapers as specified in subsection (c) hereof. When the proposed map amendment has been initiated by the City, the City shall provide at its cost the hand or postal delivery provided herein above. When the proposed map amendment has been initiated by a party other than the City, the initiating party shall provide at its cost the hand or postal delivery provided herein above and shall file with the Planning and Zoning Commission on or before the date of the hearing an affidavit confirming compliance with the provisions of this section. The failure to hand deliver or mail the notice provided by this section shall not, however, invalidate any action of the Planning and Zoning Commission or the City Council on the map amendment.