Before the Common Council may adopt any ordinance establishing an historic district or a conservation district, all owners of property within the proposed district must be notified by certified mail, return receipt requested, at least 30 days before any public hearing is held with respect to such ordinance. For purposes of this section, only owners of record in the office of the County Auditor need be notified at their addresses of record according to said office. In addition, at least 50% of the parcel owners (based upon individual number of parcels and not size of parcels) in a proposed historic district or conservation district must agree to the designation of being in such a district which agreement must be evidenced by a written petition signed by such owners prior to submission to Council. Such petition may be one and the same as a petition filed by residents to establish an historic district or conservation district.
(Prior Code, § 158.04) (Ord. 37-2018, passed 9-4-2018)