(a) The Board of Commissioners may from time to time amend, supplement, change, modify or repeal this Zoning Code, including the Zoning Map.
(b) The Board of Commissioners shall, by Resolution adopted at a stated meeting, fix the time and place of a public hearing on the proposed amendment, and cause notice thereof to be given as follows:
(1) By publishing a notice thereof in at least one newspaper of general circulation in the Township once a week for two weeks at least ten days before such hearing.
(2) By mailing or delivering a notice thereof to every civic association or association of residents in the Township which shall have registered its name and address for this purpose with the Zoning Hearing Board. The notice shall state the general nature of the proposed amendment.
(c) The Board of Commissioners, having held such hearing, may then at any stated meeting which follows such hearing by at least ten days, change, modify or repeal this Zoning Code as stated in the notices, by a majority vote of the Board of Commissioners.
(d) Whenever the owners of fifty percent or more of the frontage in any area wherein a change of zoning regulations is sought shall present to the Board of Commissioners a petition duly signed and acknowledged requesting an amendment, supplement, change, modification or repeal of the regulations prescribed for, or of the Zoning Map including such area, it shall be the duty of the Board of Commissioners to hold a public hearing thereon, and cause notice thereof to be given in the manner prescribed in subsection (b) hereof.
(e) In case of a protest against such change, signed by the owners of twenty percent or more, either of the area of the lots included in such proposed change, or of those immediately adjacent, in the rear thereof extending 100 feet therefrom, or of those directly opposite thereto extending 100 feet from the street frontage of such opposite lot, such amendment shall not become effective except by the favorable vote of three-fourths of the members of the Board of Commissioners.
(Ord. 404. Passed 3-25-68.)