(A) (1) The provisions set forth in this chapter may, from time to time, be amended, supplemented, changed, modified, or repealed by action of the City Council or when such amendment, supplement, change, modification, or repeal is requested through a petition by 30% of the landowners in the district requesting change. An individual landowner may also petition the Board to change the zoning of all or any part of his or her property.
(2) Upon filing or upon separate request by the City Council, the City Planning and Zoning Commission and the Board shall hold a public hearing not less than 15 days after the notice is published in the official newspaper of the city and/or county and subject to the provisions in SDCL Chapter 11-4.
(3) Such petitioning landowner shall also notify all other abutting landowners by certified mail of the petitioned zoning change at least one week prior to any public hearing held thereon by the City Planning and Zoning Commission.
(B) The City Planning and Zoning Commission shall within 45 days make its recommendation to the City Council. The report of such recommendation shall include approval, disapproval, or other suggestions and the reasons therefor, and a discussion of the effect on such amendment, supplement, change, modification upon adjacent property, and upon the comprehensive plan.
(C) The City Council shall therefore, by duly enacted ordinance, either adopt or reject such amendment, supplement, change, modification, or repeal, and if it is adopted by the City Council, the same shall be published in the official newspaper in the city and/or county and take effect on the twentieth day after its publication.
(Prior Code, § 14-18-18.0101) (Ord. 477, passed 2-1-2013)