(A) Ordinances or resolutions establishing, amending, revising, changing or repealing zoning classifications, districts, uses or regulations shall be initiated by a member of Council. Immediately after the first reading of the ordinance or resolution, the presiding officer of Council shall set the date for a public hearing before a joint meeting of Council and the Planning Commission, not earlier than fifteen days after the first reading. The Clerk of Council shall cause a notice of the public hearing to be posted on the City's website and published one time in a newspaper of general circulation within the City, if there is such a newspaper, and otherwise in a newspaper determined by Council to be of circulation in the City; said posting and publication to be made at least seven days prior to the date of the public hearing. When the amendment, revision, change or repeal involves ten or less parcels of land as listed on the tax duplicate, written notice of the hearing shall be mailed by the Clerk of Council by certified mail with the return receipt at least seven days before the date of the public hearing, to the owners of the property within, contiguous to and directly across the street from the affected parcel or parcels. Such notices shall be sent to the addressees of owners appearing on the County Auditor's current tax list and to other lists as may be required by Council. The failure of delivery of the notice shall not invalidate any ordinance or resolution. The President of Council shall preside over the public hearing required by this Division.
(Amended 11-2-21)
(B) Immediately after the public hearing referred to in Division (A) of this Section, a copy of each ordinance or resolution establishing, amending, revising, changing or repealing zoning classifications, districts, uses or regulations shall be referred to the Planning Commission. Within fifteen days after receipt of referral, the Planning Commission shall return to the Clerk of Council the written recommendations of a majority of the members of the Commission. The ordinance or resolution shall be given its second reading as the next regular meeting of Council, unless an earlier special meeting is called for that purpose.
(C) A concurring vote of at least three-fourths of the membership of Council shall be necessary to pass any zoning ordinance or resolution which differs from the written recommendations of the Planning Commission, but in no event shall an ordinance or resolution be considered as having passed unless it receives at least a majority of the vote of the members of Council.