§ 25-52. Amendments.

(a)

The council may, from time to time on its own motion, or on petition after public notice and hearing thereon, as provided herein, amend, supplement, change, modify, or repeal the regulations and restrictions as established herein. Before taking any action upon any proposed amendment, modification, change, restriction, or extension, the same shall be referred by the council to the commission.

(b)

In case of a protest against such amendment, change, modification or repeal duly signed and acknowledged by the owners of thirty (30) percent or more, either of the land (exclusive of streets and alleys) included in such proposed change, or within any area determined by lines drawn parallel to an [a] one-hundred-eighty-five-feet [foot] distance from the boundaries of the district proposed to be changed, such amendment shall not be passed except by a favorable vote of two-thirds of all members of the council.

(c)

No action on an amendment change, modification, or repeal shall be taken until after a public hearing in relation thereto, at which parties in interest and citizens shall have an opportunity to be heard. At least ten (10) days' notice of the time and place of such hearing shall be published in a paper of general circulation in the city.

(Code 1978, § 400.030; Ord. No. 6154, § I, 11-22-88; Ord. No. 6174, § I, 2-28-89)

State law reference

Amendments, RSMo 89.050, 89.060.