City of Thibodaux Zoning Review - South Central Planning ...

2010 Thibodaux Zoning ReviewHammond6.2 Approval of AmendmentThe City Council of Hammond may revoke this Ordinance, or any section thereof, upon its own motion or upon recommendationfrom the Planning and Zoning Commission. Amendments shall not become effective except by the favorable vote of two-thirds ofall the members of the Council. Official public notice must be advertised before any vote.No amendment or supplement to this Ordinance or to the Zoning Map shall become effective until:(a) The Council has received a final report from the Planning and Zoning Commission on the merits of the amendment.(b) The Council has held a public hearing(s) upon the proposed amendment at which parties in interest shall have an opportunityto be heard. Notice of the proposed amendment and of the time and place of the hearing shall have been publishedonce a week in three different weeks in the official journal of the municipality; at least fifteen (15) days shall elapse betweenthe first publication and the date of the hearing. The public hearing may be held in conjunction with regular City Councilmeetings. Applicants may appeal a decision of the Zoning Board to the Council only once.PinevilleArticle 13.02. Procedure; public hearing; protest against change.No regulations or restrictions shall become effective:(1) Until after a public hearing at which parties in interest have an opportunity to be heard. A public hearing may be held by themayor and board of aldermen. In such case notice of the time and place of the hearing shall be published once a week in three (3)different weeks in the official journal. At least fifteen (15) days shall elapse between the first publication and the date of the hearing.In addition to notice by publication, and at least ten (10) days prior to the hearing, a good faith attempt to notify the owner orowners of record of the properties to be zoned or rezoned in municipal zoning shall be made by the sending of an official notice byregular mail of the time and place of the hearing and subject matter of the regulations and restrictions. Notwithstanding the foregoing,however, when more than ten (10) parcels are to be zoned or rezoned by enactment of a zoning ordinance, the advertisementin the official journal required herein shall be considered adequate notice to the property owners.RustonSec. 29-101. Amendments(a) Amendments to this chapter or the official zoning map may be initiated by the mayor and board of aldermen on its ownmotion or by the planning and zoning commission on its own motion. Amendments may also be initiated by any person byfiling a written application for such amendment with the zoning administrator or other official designated with processingzoning applications. All proposed amendments shall be referred to the planning and zoning commission for a report.(b) An application for a change in zoning classification, other than changes initiated by the mayor and board of aldermen, shallbe filed on a completed form supplied by the city. No such application shall be considered or acted upon unless such applicationis duly signed by all applicants and the concurrence of the:(1) Owners of the entire land area to be included within the proposed district;(2) Owners of all structures then existing on the land area to be included within the proposed district.(c) Any applicant denied a favorable recommendation of his/her request for rezoning, who desires a review by the board ofaldermen, must, within ten days from the date of such denial by the Zoning Commission, file a written appeal with theZoning Administrator.(d) Following the disapproval of an application by the Board of Aldermen for the changing of all, or a portion of, a parcel ofproperty from one zoning classification into another zoning classification, another application for the reclassification of suchproperty, or any portion thereof, into the same zoning classification for the same proposed specific use shall not be filed untila period of at least 18 months shall have elapsed after the date of such disapproval.55