The Board of Aldermen may by ordinance on its own motion or on application amend, supplement, change, modify or repeal the boundaries or zoning designation of districts herein established, under the procedures herein provided and following referral thereof to the Planning and Zoning Commission in accordance with this Section.

Applications for district changes shall be filed in writing with the City Clerk, who shall place the application before the Board of Alderman after determining that it is in proper form as provided herein. All applications, except those proposed by the Board of Aldermen or the City Planning and Zoning Commission, shall be accompanied by a publication fee of twenty-five ($25.00). A copy of the application shall remain on file with the City Clerk for public inspection until final action thereon.

The Board of Aldermen of the City Planning and Zoning Commission shall require applicants to provide plats and other documents or other information it may determine to be of value in acting upon the application. The Board and Planning and Zoning Commission may request the opinions and recommendations of other City boards and officers upon applications.

Upon receipt of an application in proper form, the Board of Aldermen shall refer it to the Planning and Zoning Commission. The Board of Aldermen may by resolution delegate the duty of such receipt and referral to the City Clerk or similar official. The Planning and Zoning Commission shall return the application to the Board of Aldermen with its recommendations in relation thereto and showing the number of votes for and against its action, and may include a summary of the reasons expressed for and in opposition thereto. The Board of Aldermen may set a date by which the recommendation shall be returned, no less than twenty (20) days from the date of such setting, and the Board of Aldermen may proceed without receipt of such recommendations in the absence of receipt by such date.

The Board of Aldermen may reject an application without referring it to the Planning and Zoning Commission and without publishing a notice of hearing if the application is made within one (1) year of the Board's rejection of a previous application seeking an amendment for the same or a larger or smaller included tract.

If the Planning and Zoning Commission recommends approval of an application in whole or in part, the Board of Aldermen shall set a public hearing as provided in this Section. If the Planning and Zoning Commission recommends rejection of an application in full, the Board of Aldermen may set a public hearing as provided in this Section upon its own motion; or the Board of Aldermen may by motion file such recommendation of rejection, and the application shall thereupon be deemed rejected unless, within ten (10) days from such filing, the applicant files a written request with the City Clerk for a public hearing under this Section, or makes an oral request therefor at a regular or special meeting of the Board of Aldermen, whereupon the Board of Aldermen shall set such a public hearing. If the Board of Aldermen fails to approve an application in whole or in part within thirty-five (35) days after the public hearing, such application shall be deemed to have been rejected in full, unless the Board of Aldermen shall have expressly extended such time period prior to the expiration therefor.

The Board of Aldermen may by ordinance on its own motion or on application amend, supplement, change, modify or repeal the regulations or restrictions of districts herein established, following referral therefor to the Planning and Zoning Commission as provided in Section 405.730 of this Article.

No amendment, supplement, or change of the regulations or restrictions or boundaries of districts shall become effective until after the Board of Aldermen has held a public hearing in relation thereto, at which parties in interest and citizens shall have an opportunity to be heard. At least fifteen (15) days' notice of the time and place of such hearing shall be published in a newspaper of general circulation in the City of Maysville. The Board of Aldermen may provide for the posting of notices of the hearing on the tract and for other means of notifying the public or interested persons of the proceedings.

Such regulations, restrictions, and boundaries may from time to time be amended, supplemented, changed, modified or repealed. In case, however, of a protest against such change duly signed and acknowledged by the owners of thirty percent (30%) or more, either of the areas of the land (exclusive of streets and alleys) included in such proposed change or within an area determined by lines drawn parallel to and one hundred eighty-five (185) feet distant from the boundaries of the district proposed to be changed, such amendment shall not become effective except by the favorable vote of two-thirds (2/3) of all the members of the Board of Aldermen. The provisions of Section 405.770 relative to public hearing and official notice shall apply equally to all changes or amendments.

In its action upon an application for changes in district boundaries, the Board of Aldermen may grant a special use permit under Article XII rather than the requested change in district boundaries, or may grant changes to a district that is intermediate in restrictiveness between the existing district and the requested district. However, no special use permit or change in district of this nature shall be granted until the parties in interest have been notified by either public notice or certified mail that such permit or change is contemplated.