Section 366.15 Districts or Zones, Amendment

366.15 DISTRICTS OR ZONES, AMENDMENT.

The board may amend the number, shape, boundary, or area of a district or zone, or a regulation of area within a zone, or a provision of the zoning resolution. Before finally adopting an amendment the board shall hold a public hearing on it, after giving at least ten days' notice of the time and place of the hearing, by at least one publication in a newspaper of general circulation in the county where the town is located. No change may be made in the boundary line of zones or districts unless at least 50 percent of the owners of the lands proposed to be changed file a petition for the change.

History:

1939 c 187 s 6; 1947 c 231 s 1; 1980 c 416 s 5; 1989 c 197 art 7 s 1