The board of aldermen may from time to time, on its own motion or petition, amend, supplement, change, modify or repeal by ordinance the boundaries of districts or regulations, or restrictions herein established. Any proposed amendment, supplement, change, modification or repeal other than administrative matters pertaining to the administration and enforcement shall first be submitted to the planning and zoning commission for its recommendations and report. Upon the filing of the recommendations and report by the commission with respect to any proposed amendment, supplement, change, modification or repeal, the board of aldermen shall proceed to hold a public hearing in relation thereto, giving at least fifteen (15) days' notice of the time and place of such hearing, which notice shall first be published in a newspaper having general circulation in the city of Bellefontaine Neighbors. No ordinance or part thereof requiring a public hearing shall become effective until after such public hearing held on such notice, at which parties in interest and citizens shall have an opportunity to be heard.

If a protest against such proposed amendment, supplement, change, modification or repeal shall be presented in writing to the city clerk, duly signed and acknowledged by the owners of thirty percent (30%) or more, either of the areas of the land (exclusive of streets and alleys) included within such proposed amendment, supplement, change, modification or repeal, or within an area determined by lines drawn parallel to and one hundred eighty-five (185) feet distant from the boundaries of the district proposed to be changed, such amendment, supplement, change, modification or repeal shall not become effective except by the favorable vote of two-thirds (⅔) of all the members of the board of aldermen.

Before any action shall be taken on petition as provided in this article, the party or parties proposing or recommending a change in the district regulations or district boundaries shall pay to the city treasurer an initial filing fee of two hundred and fifty dollars ($250.00) to reimburse the city for expenses incurred in processing the application, including, but not limited to, costs of legal and engineering review, cost of traffic and planning consultants employed by the city, publication expenses, expenses of notification to adjoining property owners, expenses of hearings including rental of a hall, if necessary, court reporter, if requested by either the city or the applicant, and other investigations deemed necessary by the city.

Petitions shall be submitted upon forms available in the office of the city engineer, or shall show the minimum information as prescribed on said forms. It shall be the responsibility of the petitioner to furnish such maps, data and information as may be prescribed for that purpose by the planning and zoning commission so as to assure the fullest practicable presentation of facts for the permanent record.