Creston City Zoning Code

   1.   An application for amendment shall be filed with the Zoning Administrator in duplicate, accompanied by a fee as determined by the City Council. The Zoning Administrator shall forward one (1) copy to the Commission.

   2.   The Commission shall take action on such application within thirty (30) days and transmit its recommendations to the City Council. The Commission may recommend that the application be granted as requested, or it may recommend a modification of the zoning amendment requested in the application, or it may recommend that the application be denied. These recommendations shall be certified to the Council.

   3.   The Commission shall give notice of the time and place of the public hearing. Notice shall be given not more than thirty (30) days or less than fifteen (15) days in advance of the hearings by publishing a notice thereof at least once in a newspaper of general circulation and by notifying by mail, at least fifteen (15) days prior to the meeting, the property owners within three hundred (300) feet of the subject property. The current County Assessor’s tax record shall be deemed sufficient for the location or certification of ownership of said properties.

   4.   All amendments concerning Floodway and Flood Fringe portions of the Flood Plain District must be submitted and approved by the Department of Natural Resources prior to adoption.

   5.   The City Council, upon receiving reports of the Commission, and without further public hearing, may vote on the adoption of any proposed amendment or it may refer it back to the Commission for further consideration. If no recommendation is transmitted by the Commission within thirty (30) days after the hearing, the City Council may take action without awaiting such notifications. In considering such recommendations, due allowances shall be made for existing conditions, for the conservation of property values, for the direction of building development to the best advantage of the entire City and for the uses to which the property affected is being devoted at the time; and no change shall be recommended unless it is required for the public good. The Council may over-rule the recommendations of the Commission by three-fourths (3/4) vote of the full membership of the Council.