Applications for a text amendment or map amendment filed by any person or entity other than the City of Jonesboro shall be governed by all provisions of this section.

O.C.G.A. § 36-66-4, and amendments thereof, shall govern public notice procedures associated with text or map amendment proposed by the city. Specifically, the city shall provide for a pubic hearing concerning the proposed zoning decision. The public notice requirements shall be as described in subsection (1) below.

Prior to enacting an amendment to this chapter, whether the proposed amendment is an amendment to the text of the zoning ordinance or an amendment to the official zoning map, the city council shall give public notice and hold a public hearing thereon. The purpose of the public hearing shall be to receive and consider public comment regarding the merits of the proposed amendment. Such hearings shall be held only following substantial compliance with all required public notification of the hearing as set forth in this section.

(1)

The city shall publish a legal notice in a newspaper of general circulation in Jonesboro no fewer than 15 calendar days nor more than 45 calendar days prior to the required public hearing before council. Such notice shall state the time, date, location and purpose of the hearing as well as the nature of the proposed amendment. The procedures followed in accomplishing city initiated amendments, including text amendments and map amendments, shall comply with the public notice provisions of O.C.G.A. § 36-66-4; however, subsection (2) below shall not apply to the city.

(2)

In addition to the notice requirements of subsection (1) above, proposed amendments to the official zoning map, property rezonings, shall require the city to post a public notice on the property being proposed for rezoning. The public works director shall post one or more signs, as appropriate, on such property, each of which shall be no less than six square feet in area. Such signs shall be erected in a conspicuous place on the property and shall convey the time, date and location of the public hearing as well as the current and proposed zoning applicable to the property and such other information as the zoning administrator or his designee deems appropriate.

In the case of a property proposed for rezoning having no frontage on a public street, an additional sign shall be erected on the right-of-way of the nearest public street providing access to the property. No public hearing shall be held by city council unless such signs have been posted for a minimum period of 15 calendar days. Said signs shall remain posted until a final decision by the city has been rendered.

Any proposed zoning decision by mayor and council governing the review of all proposed zoning decisions to revise:

(1)

One or more zoning classifications or definitions relating to single-family residential uses of property so as to authorize multi-family uses of the property pursuant to such classifications or definitions; or

(2)

To grant blanket permission, under certain circumstances, for property owners to deviate from the existing zoning requirements of a single-family residential zoning, shall require, in addition to requirements mentioned above, or separate procedural requirements, as set forth in O.C.G.A. § 36-66-4(h)(1-3).

(Ord. No. 05-08, § 2(12.06), 8-15-2005; Ord. No. 2023-006, § 1(Exh. A), 7-10-2023)