Any person applying for a license for the sale of alcoholic liquors at a location where alcoholic liquors are now being sold which is within six hundred feet of a church or a school may be required by the city commission to submit the signatures of a majority of the residents within two city blocks of the proposed place of business to a document stating that they have no objection to the granting of such license. If such applicant then fails to obtain a majority of such residents to sign such a petition, the license shall not be granted. (Prior code § 9-2-6)