(A)
The Board of Commissioners may, at any time, amend, supplement, change, modify or repeal this chapter. Proposed changes or amendments may be initiated by the Board of Commissioners, Planning Board, Board of Adjustment, or by one or more owners, optionees, or lessees of property within the area proposed to be changed or affected.
(B) Petitions to amend this chapter shall be presented to the Secretary of the Planning Board for review and recommendation by said Board at least ten working days prior to its meeting. The petition shall state the nature of the proposed amendment, a legal description of the property involved, and the names of the property owners. A fee (see Warren County Fee Schedule) to defray cost of advertising and other administrative costs involved, unless initiated by the Board of Commissioners, Board of Adjustment, or the Planning Board, shall accompany each petition.
(C) The Planning Board shall have 45 days, from the date of its meeting, within which to submit its recommendation. Failure of the Board to submit its recommendation within this time shall constitute a favorable recommendation. The Planning Board’s report shall be submitted in writing to the County Manager, and subsequently the Board of Commissioners, and to the petitioner(s), by the Secretary of the Planning Board.
(D) The Board of Commissioners shall hold a public hearing before adoption of any proposed amendment of this chapter.
(1) A notice of such public hearing shall be published once a week for two consecutive weeks in a newspaper of general circulation in the county. Said notice shall be published the first time not less than ten days and not more than 25 before the date established for such public hearing.
(2) Whenever there is a zoning classification action involving a parcel of land, the owner of that parcel of land as shown on the county tax listing, and the owners of all parcels of land abutting that parcel of the proposed classification by first class mail at the last addresses listed for such owners on the county tax abstracts. The person or persons mailing such notices shall certify to the Board of Commissioners that fact, and such certification shall be deemed conclusive in the absence of fraud.
(3) In addition, the Planning and Zoning Administrator shall post a sign on any property for which a petition to change the zoning classification has been received. The sign shall state the nature of the change requested and the date, time and place of the public hearing and shall be posted on the property in question at least five work days before the public hearing date.
(E) A majority vote of the Board of Commissioners shall be the required minimum to amend this chapter.
(F) When a petition to rezone (zoning map amendment) is denied by the Board of Commissioners, a period of 12 months, from the date of the petition to rezone, must elapse before another petition for the same change previously involved may be submitted.
(Ord. passed 5-7-2018; Ord. passed 6-7-2021)