Any person desiring a zoning amendment shall
propose it in writing to the Selectmen for insertion in the warrant
of a Town Meeting, regular or special.
If geographic change of a zoning boundary description
be proposed, word of boundary description change for insertion in
the warrant shall be accompanied by a brief written statement of the
nature, extent and location in the Town of the Zoning Map change proposed,
together with three black-line prints of a diagram to scale showing
the area to be changed, stating pertinent dimensions in feet.
On each zoning amendment proposal accepted by
the Selectmen for insertion in a Town Meeting warrant, or on any such
proposal inserted in a Town Meeting warrant by petition as provided
by statute, the Planning Board shall hold a public hearing, of which
notice shall be given by the Planning Board under the statutory zoning
notice provisions of Chapter 40A.
The costs of publication and of mailing of notices
of hearing and the costs of holding such zoning hearing and of making
a public record of the proceedings at such hearings, if such a record
be made, shall be paid by the Planning Board, but the Planning Board
may determine whether a fee to cover such costs shall be required
of the zoning amendment proponents.
