SECTION 7A.01 PROCEDURE.
   To promote the public health, safety, morals, convenience and the general welfare of the community, and in order to classify, regulate and restrict the location of trades, residences, recreation and other uses, the City of Twinsburg has adopted a plan for dividing the City, or any portion thereof, into zoning districts. Should a change to a zoning district boundary, or a change in the uses permitted or prohibited in any zoning district, or a change to limitations and requirements related to height, density, percentage of lot occupancy, building set back lines, area dimensions of yards and open space requirements within a zoning district within the City of Twinsburg, such change must first be submitted to the Planning Commission for consideration and report. If City Council should approve any of the preceding requested changes, upon the report of 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 scheduled election. Said issue shall be submitted to the electors of the City only after approval by Council; however, should Council disapprove any such change, the issue shall not be submitted to the voters. However, any change in zoning districts or designation of zoning classifications or districts or in uses permitted in any zoning use classification of land annexed to the City shall be subject to the requirements of Section 7A.05. (Amended November 6, 2012; November 4, 2014; May 5, 2015)