Council may, from time to time, on its own motion or on petition, after public notice and hearing, amend this Zoning Code. Every such proposed amendment shall be referred by Council to the City Planning Commission for report. An amendment that has failed to receive the approval of the Commission shall not be passed by Council except by a two-thirds vote. If a protest against such amendment is presented, duly signed and acknowledged by the owners of twenty percent of the land adjacent to or abutting an area proposed to be altered, such amendment shall not be passed except by a three-fourths vote of Council. If such amendment will transfer an area to a less restricted use, and a protest is presented, duly signed and acknowledged by the owners of twenty percent of the land adjacent to such less restricted district, which land is within a district that is more restrictive than the district into which the transfer is proposed to be made, and also within 200 feet of such district, then such amendment shall not be passed except by a three-fourths vote of Council.
Whenever the owners of fifty percent of the land adjacent to or abutting any area present a petition to Council, duly signed and acknowledged, requesting an amendment of the regulations prescribed for such area, it shall be the duty of Council to vote upon such amendment within ninety days of the filing of the same by the petitioners with the Clerk of Council.
If any area is hereafter transferred to another district by a change in the district boundaries by amendment as provided in this section, the provisions of this Zoning Code with respect to buildings or premises existing at the time of the passage of this Zoning Code shall apply to buildings or premises existing in such transferred area at the time of the passage of such amendment.
(Ord. 1985-29. Passed 10-14-85.)