Amendments or supplements to this zoning chapter may be made from time to time in the same manner provided in Act No. 207 of the Public Acts of Michigan for 1921; provided, however, every petition for a zoning amendment shall be accompanied with a fee, the amount of which shall be established by council resolution and may be changed from time to time, always to hold a reasonable relationship with the necessary costs and expenses, direct or indirect, which may be incurred by reason of publication and the holding of hearings incident to such petitions for zoning amendment.

The fee accompanying the petition, regardless of the ultimate decision, is not refundable.