The Corporate Authorities may, from time to time, on its own motion or on petition, amend, supplement, change, modify or repeal by ordinance, the boundaries of districts or regulations or restrictions established herein. Any proposed amendment, supplement, change, modification or repeal shall first be submitted to the Planning Commission for its recommendations and report. If the Planning Commission makes no report within sixty (60) days, it shall be considered to have made a report approving the proposed amendment, supplement, modification or change. Within sixty (60) days after the proposed amendment, supplement, change, modification or repeal is submitted to the commission or upon the filing of the recommendations and report by the commission with respect to any proposed amendment, supplement, change, modification or repeal, the Corporate Authorities shall cause a public hearing to be held before the Board of Appeals in relation thereto, after giving at least fifteen (15) days' notice of the time and place of such hearing and publishing such notice in a newspaper having a general circulation in the City. Such notice shall state the time and place of the hearing, the location of the property affected, and a brief statement of the amendment. A hearing shall be held in the City Hall. Within ten (10) days following the hearing the Board of Appeals shall file a report of the hearing and its recommendations with the Corporate Authorities.

In the case of an adverse report by the Planning Commission or Board of Appeals or if a protest against such proposed amendment, supplement, change, modification or repeal is presented in writing to the City Clerk, duly signed and acknowledged by the owners of ten percent (10%) or more, either of the area of land (exclusive of streets, places and alleys) included within such a proposed amendment, supplement, change, modification or repeal; or within an area, determined by lines drawn parallel to and one hundred eighty five feet (185') distant from any boundary of the district proposed to be changed, such amendment, supplement, change, modification or repeal shall not become effective except by the favorable vote of three-fourths (3/4) of all the members of the Corporate Authorities. The increased vote requirement shall apply in all cases of special use exceptions. (Ord. 69-23, 4-6-1970)

The party or parties proposing recommending a change in the district regulations or district boundaries shall deposit a fee of two hundred dollars ($200.00) with the City Clerk at the time the application is filed, and an additional fee of fifty dollars ($50.00) shall be paid to the City Clerk for the publication of "Notice of Public Hearing". All fees received hereunder shall forthwith be paid over to the credit of the General Fund of the City. Under no condition shall the sum or any part thereof be refunded for failure of the change to be adopted by the Corporate Authorities. (Ord. 2014-2, 5-13-2014; amd. 2018 Code)