(a) The Council may from time to time on its own motion or on petition, after public notice and hearing, amend or change the regulations, districts or, building lines herein established, but no such amendment or change shall be effective unless the ordinance or petition proposing such amendment or change shall first be submitted to the Municipal Planning Commission for approval, disapproval or suggestions, and the Planning Commission shall have been allowed a reasonable time, not more than sixty days, for consideration and report.
(b) Whoever petitions the Council for a change in zoning, such petitioner shall deposit with the Director of Finance, a fee which is prescribed elsewhere by ordinance, payable to the City of Twinsburg from which the costs of legal notices, Planning Commission expense and engineer's fees shall be paid. If the required deposit is insufficient, the Council shall require the petitioner to pay the additional amount as a condition of approval. This fee shall not apply to any amendment introduced by a member of Council, the Mayor, Planning Commission or Board of Zoning and Building Code Appeals, acting in an official capacity.
(c) The Council shall hold a public hearing before the adoption of the proposed amendment. At least thirty (30) days notice of such amendment and of the time and place of the hearing thereon, shall be given in a newspaper of general circulation, which shall include a statement that opportunity will be afforded to any person interested to be heard. If the amendment intends to re zone or re district ten (10) or less parcels of land, as listed on the tax duplicate, written notice of the hearing shall be mailed, by first class mail, at least twenty (20) days before the date of the public hearing, to the owners of property within and contiguous to and directly across the street from such parcel or parcels, at the addresses given on the last assessment roll. The failure of delivery of any such notice shall not invalidate any such amendment.
(d) In the event the City Council should approve any of the preceding changes, whether approved or disapproved by the Planning Commission, it shall not be approved or passed by the declaration of an emergency, and it shall not be effective, but it shall be mandatory that the same be approved by a majority vote of all votes cast of the qualified electors of the City of Twinsburg and of each ward in which the property so changed is located at the next general election or at a special election falling on the generally established day of the primary election. Said issue shall be submitted to the electors of the City only after approval of a change in zoning classifications or districts, or in the uses permitted in any zoning use classifications or districts by the Council for an applicant. (Ord. 173-2000. Passed 12-17-00.)