The Board of Supervisors may introduce and/or consider amendments to this chapter and to the Zoning Map, as proposed by a member of the Board of Supervisors, the Planning Commission, or by a petition of a person or persons residing or owning property within the Township.

Before acting upon a proposed amendment, the Board of Supervisors shall hold a public hearing thereon. Notice of such public hearing, containing a brief summary of the proposed amendment and reference to the place where copies of the same may be examined, shall be published once a week for two consecutive weeks in a newspaper of general circulation and in the legal newspaper of the Township. The first publication shall be not more than 30 days and the second publication no less than seven days from the date of the hearing.

A landowner who desires to challenge on substantive grounds the validity of this chapter or Zoning Map, or any provision thereof, which prohibits or restricts the use of development of land in which he/she has an interest, may substitute a curative amendment to the Board of Supervisors with a written request that his/her challenge and proposed amendment be heard and decided as provided in Section 916.1 of the Pennsylvania Municipalities Planning Code.[1] As with other proposed amendments, the curative amendment shall be referred to the Kilbuck Township Planning Commission and the Allegheny County Department of Economic Development at least 30 days before the hearing is conducted.[2]