(a)

No amendment, supplement, or change of the zoning regulations or district map shall become effective unless and until:

(1)

There shall have been held a public hearing in relation thereto before the planning commission at which parties in interest and citizens shall have had an opportunity to be fully heard.

(2)

Notice of the proposed change and of the time and place of the hearing shall have been published once a week for three different weeks in the official paper of the city. At least 15 days shall elapse between the first publication and the date of hearing.

(3)

A printed notice in bold type shall have been posted for not less than ten consecutive days prior to the hearing on signs not less than one and one-half square feet in area, prepared, furnished, and placed by the building inspector on each block of each street adjoining the area proposed for a change in zoning classification. Said signs shall contain an accurate statement of the proposed changes and also the time and place of the public hearing as provided above. The zoning commission shall have submitted its report and recommendations upon the proposed changes and amendments to the secretary of the council.

(4)

The Council shall not take action until it has received the final report of the zoning commission. Notice of such public hearing by the governing body shall give time and place of hearing and shall be published once a week in three different weeks in the official journal of the city or if there be none, in a paper of general circulation therein. At least 15 days shall elapse between the first publication and the date of hearing.

(5)

Any amendment that has failed to receive the approval of the planning commission shall not be passed by the council except by the affirmative vote of three-fifths of the legislative body

(6)

A final yea and nay vote shall have been taken on the proposal by the Council within 20 days dated from the introduction of an ordinance in correct form.

(7)

In case, however, of a protest against such change signed by the owners of 20 percent or more either of the area of the lots included in such proposed change or in those immediately adjacent, extending 200 feet from the nearest property lines of the lots proposed for change or those directly opposite thereto extending 500 feet from the street front age of such opposite lots, such amendments shall not become effective except by the favorable vote of at least three-fifths of the governing body.

(8)

After published notice required above, the Council may hold any public hearing required by this Section or the statutes of Louisiana pertaining to zoning, jointly with any public hearing required to be held by the planning commission; but the legislative body shall not take action until it has received the final report of the planning commission.

(Zoning Ordinance, §§ 8.101—8.106))