The regulations, restrictions, prohibitions, and limitations imposed and the districts created may from time to time be amended, supplemented, changed, modified, or repealed by ordinance, but no change shall be made until the Planning Commission, after notice and public hearing, files with the City Council a report and recommendation on the proposed change.
[Amended 8-6-2002 by Ord. No. 2945; 5-10-2022 by Ord. No. 9302]
An owner, or his duly authorized agent or representative, may make application for the amendment of the zoning restrictions applicable to his property by filing with the Planning Commission a written application in such form and content as the Planning Commission may by resolution establish. An application for amendment shall be accompanied by the payment of a fee of $150 to cover the costs of administrative review of all zoning amendment proposals to rezone to Rural Agricultural (A-1), Suburban Agricultural (A-2), Residential Estate (RE), Single-Family (R-1) and Combined Residential (R-2) Zoning Districts. Amendment applications to rezone to any other zoning district must be accompanied by a fee as established by the City Council and set by resolution. Attached to every submittal shall also be an original certified property owner list meeting the requirements of § 361-150A.
[Amended 2-11-2014 by Ord. No. 9046]
A. 
Upon receipt of an application, the Planning Commission shall set a date for public hearing not less than 20 days nor more than 60 days from the date of filing. Fifteen days' notice of the public hearing shall be given by the Planning Commission by publication in a newspaper of general circulation in El Reno. In addition to the notice required above, notice of a public hearing on any proposed zoning change shall be given 20 days prior to the hearing by mailing written notice by the Secretary of the Planning Commission to all owners of property within a three-hundred-foot radius of the exterior boundary of the subject property, said radius to be extended by increments of 100 linear feet until the list of property owners includes not fewer than 10 individual property owners of separate parcels.
(1) 
The notice shall contain:
(a) 
Legal description of the property and the street address or approximate location;
(b) 
Present zoning and classification of the property and the classification sought by the applicant; and
(c) 
Date, time and place of the public hearing.
(2) 
In addition to the notice required in this subsection, if the zoning change requested permits the use of treatment facilities, multiple-family facilities, transitional living facilities, halfway houses and any housing or facility that may be used for medical or nonmedical detoxification as these terms are defined pursuant to 43A O.S. § 3-403, the entity proposing the zoning change shall mail a written notice within 30 days of the hearing to all real property owners within 1/4 of a mile where the area to be affected is located and shall be responsible for all costs incurred in mailing this notice.[1]
[1]
Editor's Note: Added at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. I).
B. 
In addition to the notice provided above, notice of public hearing of any zoning change shall be given by a sign or signs as may be required, placed on the property affected by such proposed zoning classification. Such sign (or signs) and the lettering thereon shall be of sufficient size so as to be clearly visible and legible from the public street or streets toward which it faces. It shall contain:
(1) 
The date, time and place of the public hearing;
(2) 
By whom the public hearing will be conducted;
(3) 
The desired zoning classification;
(4) 
The proposed use of the property; and
(5) 
Other information as deemed necessary to provide adequate and timely public notice.
A. 
After notice and public hearing, the Planning Commission shall vote to:
(1) 
Recommend to the City Council that the application be approved as submitted, or as amended, or be approved subject to such modification as the Planning Commission shall deem appropriate to carry out the Comprehensive Plan; or
(2) 
Recommend to the City Council that the application be denied.
B. 
An application recommended for approval, or approval subject to modification, shall be transmitted to the City Council with the report and recommendation of the Planning Commission within 15 days from the date of Planning Commission action.
C. 
The City Clerk shall notify all interested parties of record before the Planning Commission proceedings of the time and place of and the consideration of the appeal hereinabove provided for.
The City Council shall hold a public hearing on each application regularly transmitted, or which has been transmitted pursuant to an appeal as provided for in § 361-151C. The City Council shall approve the application as submitted and recommended by the Planning Commission, or approve the application subject to modification, or deny the application, or return the application to the Planning Commission for further study.
[Amended 4-5-2005 by Ord. No. 3011]
If a written protest against an amendment, change or repeal of this chapter or any part thereof is presented, duly signed and acknowledged, more than three days prior to said public hearing by the owners of 20% or more of the area of the lots included in such proposed change, or by the owners of 50% or more of the area of the lots within a three-hundred-foot radius of the exterior boundary of the territory included in a proposed change, such amendment shall not become effective except by the favorable vote of four members of the City Council.