The regulations, restrictions, prohibitions and limitations imposed and the District created may from time to time be amended, supplemented, changed, modified, or repealed by Ordinance, but no change shall be made until the Planning and Zoning Commission, after notice and public hearing files with the City Council a report and recommendation on the proposed change.

An owner or his duly authorized agent or representative may take application for the amendment of the Zoning restrictions applicable to his property by filing with the Planning and Zoning Commission a written application in such form and content as the Planning and Zoning Commission may by resolution established [establish]. An application for amendment shall be accompanied by the payment of a fee. Cost of notice and posting shall be billed to the applicant.

Upon receipt of an application, the Planning and Zoning Commission shall set a date for public hearing not less than twenty (20) days or more than sixty (60) days from the date of filing. Fifteen (15) days’ notice of the public hearing shall be given by the Planning and Zoning Commission by publication in a newspaper of general circulation.

The City Council shall hold a hearing on each application regularly transmitted, pursuant to the receipt of a fee set by the City Council, and on each application which has been transmitted pursuant to an appeal as provided for in SECTION 1010.4:C [1010.4(c)]. The City Council may approve the application as submitted and recommend by the Planning and Zoning Commission, or approve the application subject to modification, or deny the application, or return the application to the Planning and Zoning Commission for further study.

If a written protest against an amendment, change, or repeal of this Ordinance or any part thereof is presented, duly signed and acknowledged by the owners or twenty percent (20%) or more of the area of the lots on lands immediately abutting the territory included in such proposed change or separated therefrom only by an alley or street, and extending two hundred (200) feet therefrom, such amendment shall not be passed except by the favorable vote of four (4) members of the City Council.