A. Within forty-five (45) days after the conclusion of the hearing on a proposed amendment, the Zoning, Planning and Appeals Commission shall prepare findings of fact and make its recommendation with respect to the proposed amendment and transmit same to the Board of Trustees as well as the Village Clerk and Zoning Administrator. If, at the expiration of such forty-five (45) days, the Zoning, Planning and Appeals Commission has not made its findings and recommendation, it shall be concluded that the Zoning, Planning and Appeals Commission made negative findings and recommended denial of the proposed amendment.
B. An application for a proposed amendment shall be acted upon finally by the Board of Trustees within six (6) months of the date upon which the findings and recommendations of the Zoning, Planning and Appeals Commission are filed with the Board of Trustees.
1. Whenever the findings and recommendations of the Zoning, Planning and Appeals Commission with respect to a proposed amendment have been referred to any committee of the Board of Trustees, such committee shall make its report thereon to the full Board of Trustees, within four (4) months of the date that said findings and recommendations are referred to it.
2. If such committee does not make its report within such four (4) month period, then the Village President shall discharge the said committee from further responsibility in consideration of the said findings and recommendations and shall place the application for such proposed amendment on the agenda of the next regular meeting of the Board of Trustees of the Village of Mettawa.
C. In case of a written protest against any proposed amendment, signed and acknowledged by the owners of twenty (20) percent of the frontage proposed to be altered, or by the owners of twenty (20) percent of the frontage immediately adjacent or across an alley therefrom, or by the owners of twenty (20) percent of the frontage directly opposite the frontage proposed to be altered, is filed with the Village Clerk, the proposed amendment shall not be passed except by a favorable vote of two-thirds () of all of the members of the Board of Trustees of the Village of Mattawa then holding office.
D. No amendments shall be made of this Chapter within six (6) months after the date upon which an Official Comprehensive Plan for the Village of Mettawa is adopted by the President and Board of Trustees unless such amendment to this Chapter is approved by a favorable vote of two-thirds () of all of the members of the Board of Trustees of the Village of Mettawa then holding office.
(Ord. 397, passed 5-12-99; Am. Ord. 485, passed 6-29-2002; Am. Ord. 688, passed 5-17-2011)