(a) An amendment by any person shall first be submitted to the Planning Board for its recommendations and a report. If the Planning Board does not submit a report within 45 days of the filing date of the application, it shall be considered to have submitted a report approving the proposed amendment. Applicants may waive this time limitation in writing. Incomplete applications are deemed to not have been properly filed. The said 45-day time limitation will begin to run once an application has been properly filed. After the recommendations and report of the Planning Board have been filed, the City Commission shall before enacting any proposed amendment, hold a public hearing on the proposed amendment, giving notice of the time and place of the hearing, which notice shall be published in a newspaper having a general circulation in the city at least 30 days before the public hearing.
(Ord. 03-288. Passed 8-19-03.)
(b) The Planning Board may make recommendations and a report to the City Commission for amendments to this code or map upon its own initiation. If the Planning Board initiates such recommendations and a report to the Commission, said recommendations may be immediately set for public hearing following the procedures generally prescribed for amendments to the code and map by the Commission.