If it shall appear from the application that by reason of the manner of platting or laying out the size of the lots or city blocks, or the geographical shape or location of the property involved and upon which it is sought to drill a well, that a full ten-acre drilling block cannot be obtained, as herein defined, and that property contiguous thereto for the reasons herein specified cannot be procured for the purpose of creating such block, or if such drilling block is of irregular shape and due to the aforesaid reasons cannot be made to comply with the requirements of a drilling block, as herein defined, and that an undue hardship will be committed or worked upon the owners of the property if a drilling permit be not granted for such proposed drilling block; or if said application shows that the applicant does not have the entire block or tract under lease but owns or controls or has under lease not less than 76% of all the property within such block or tract, the application shall be referred by the City Clerk to the City Council for a hearing.
('68 Code, § 27.05(c)) (Ord. 3604, passed - - )