The regulations imposed and the districts created under the authority of this title may be amended from time to time, by ordinance in accordance with applicable statutes of the state. An amendment shall be granted or denied by the city council only after public hearing before the plan commission and a report of its findings and recommendations has been submitted to the city council.

(Ord. 280 § 13.09(1), 1968.)

Amendments may be proposed by the city council, the plan commission, the zoning board of appeals, other governmental bodies, or by any resident of or owner of property within the jurisdictional limits of this title.

(Ord. 280 § 13.09(2), 1968.)

A.

An application for an amendment shall be filed with the zoning administrator and the city clerk. The city clerk shall introduce the application to the city council, which may reject the application or authorize a public hearing at public or private expense. If a public hearing is authorized, the zoning administrator will forward the application to the plan commission, with a request to hold a public hearing. Notice shall be given of the time, and places of the hearing, not more than 30 days nor less than 15 days before the hearing, by publishing a notice thereof at least once in one or more newspapers with a general circulation within Palos Hills.

B.

The plan commission shall hold the public hearing and forward its recommendations in the form of a written report, to the city council within thirty (30) days of the date the petition was submitted to the plan commission, unless it is withdrawn by the petitioner. In the case of a written protest against any proposed amendment of the regulations or districts, signed by the owners of twenty (20) percent of the frontage proposed to be altered, or by the owners of twenty (20) percent of the frontage immediately adjoining or across an alley therefrom, or by the owners of twenty (20) percent of the frontage directly opposite the frontage proposed to be altered, is filed with the clerk of the municipality, the amendment shall not be passed except by a favorable vote of two-third (⅔) of all of the aldermen of the city. Any proposed amendment which fails to receive the approval of a majority of the plan commission members and is so reported, shall not be passed by the city council except by a favorable vote of two-thirds (⅔) of all the aldermen of the city.

(Ord. 92-18 § 1, 1992; Ord. 667 § 1(d), 1978: Ord. 391 § 1(L), 1972; Ord. 280 § 13.09(3), 1968.)

The city council, upon report of the plan commission and without further public hearing, may grant or deny any proposed amendment in accordance with applicable statutes of the state, or may refer it back to the plan commission for further consideration.

(Ord. 280 § 13.09(4), 1968.)