(A) Petition for amendment.
(1) The City Council, the Plan Commission, and other government bodies and any private petitioner may apply for an amendment in the text herein, and in the accompanying zoning map made a part hereof. Any petition for an amendment by a private party shall be accompanied by a filing fee of $50, which fee shall be deposited with the City Clerk and no part of the fee shall be returnable to the petitioner. The City Clerk’s office shall provide the Building Administrator with a copy of the petition for amendment.
(2) The petition for amendment shall state the property location for which the amendment is requested, the name of the property owner, and a statement describing the amendment requested.
(B) Review of petition. The regulations imposed and the zoning districts created hereunder may be amended by ordinance, but no amendment shall be made by the City Council without public notice and without a public hearing before the Plan Commission. The Plan Commission shall hold the public hearing and forward it's recommendations to the City Council within 45 days of the date the petition was submitted to the Plan Commission unless it is withdrawn by the petitioner.
(C) Notice of public hearing. The Plan Commission shall cause notice of public hearing of petitioner's application to be given in the following manner:
(1) By publishing notice of the time and place of such public hearing at least once, not more than 30 days and not less than 15 days before the hearing in one or more newspapers published in the city, or if no newspaper is published therein, then in one or more newspapers with a general circulation in the city;
(2) By causing said notice to contain the particular location for which the amendment is requested, as well as a brief statement describing the proposed amendment;
(3) By notifying such property owners, groups or organizations as it deems desirable of the proposal.
(D) Written protest. In the event of written protest against the proposed amendment, signed and acknowledged by the owners of 20% of the frontage proposed to be altered, or by the owners of 20% of the frontage immediately adjoining or across the alley or rear line therefrom, or by the owners of 20% of the frontage directly opposite the frontage proposed to be altered as to such regulations or zoning district, filed with the City Clerk, such amendment shall not be passed by the City Council except by the favorable vote of two-thirds of all the elected members of the City Council.
(Ord. 88-30, passed 8-8-88; Am. Ord. 12-57, passed 11-13-12)