(a)

The city commission may from time to time amend, supplement, or change by ordinance the boundaries of the districts or the regulations herein established.

(b)

Before taking any action on any proposed amendment, supplement or change, the city commission shall submit the same to the city planning commission for its recommendation and report.

(c)

A public hearing shall be held by the city commission before adopting any proposed supplement, amendment or change. Notice of such hearing shall be given by publication twice in the official publication of the city stating the time and place of such hearing, which time shall not be earlier than 15 days from the first day of such publication.

(d)

Written notice of all public hearings before the planning and zoning commission on a proposed amendment of change shall be sent to all owners or real property lying within 200 feet of the property on which the change is requested. Such notice shall be given not less than ten days before the date set for hearing by posting use notice properly addressed and postage paid to each taxpayer as ownership appears on the appraisal district.

(e)

Unless such proposed amendment, supplement or change has been approved by the city planning and zoning commission or if a protest against such amendment, supplement or change has been filed with the building inspector, duly signed and acknowledged by the owners of 20 percent or more, either of the area of the lots included in such proposed change, or those immediately adjacent in the rear thereof extending 200 feet therefrom, or of those directly opposite thereto extending 200 feet from the street frontage of such opposite lots, such amendment, supplement or change shall not become effective except by a three-fourths vote of the city commission.

(f)

Any appeals to either the city commission or the city planning and zoning commission pursuant to this section shall not be considered unless a filing fee in the amount of $300.00 shall accompany each appeal so made. In all cases where publication of notice of public hearing in the official publication of the city is required by this chapter and the laws of the state, the applicant shall deposit with the city secretary such sum as may be required to pay the cost of such publication before such publication is made.

(g)

Any appeal contemplated by any section of this chapter, including, but not limited to, appeals under section 150-19 and this section, shall only be made by the record owner of the property. If an amendment, supplement or change by ordinance is granted to a property owner as the result of an appeal under this section, whereby a change is made from a more restricted to a less restricted area, such amendment, supplement or change, and the ordinance so granting same, shall become null and void, and the property shall revert to its former designation if any terms of the ordinance are violated by the property owner within one year from the effective date of said amendment, supplement or change.

(h)

Once an application has been denied by the city commission a similar request for the same application may not be filed for six months unless there are extenuating circumstances that require emergency action.

(Ord. No. 2018-02, § II, 2-6-2018; Ord. No. 2019-22, § II, 7-2-2019)