§ 9.13. Effect of protest by twenty per cent of the owners of property.

If a protest is filed with the city clerk against an application of motion to amend the boundaries of a zone or to amend the terms of an adopted conditional zoning proffer or zoning condition, signed by the owners of twenty percent or more either of the area of land within the boundaries of such proposed change or of the area of land within 300 feet of the boundaries of the land affected by such proposed change, the council shall not approve the application or motion, or adopt the ordinance making such amendment, by less than three-fourths affirmative votes of the members of council. Streets, alleys and lands dedicated to public use or lands owned by the city, Commonwealth, or federal government shall not be included in computing the abovementioned areas.

Any such protest shall be filed not later than 12 o'clock noon on the last working day before the day on which a public hearing on the application or motion is first conducted by the city council. Once any such protest has been filed no changes thereto by way of addition, substitution, amendment or withdrawal, may be made after said 12 o'clock noon deadline. (Acts 1960, ch. 8, § 1; Acts 1966, ch. 12, § 1; Acts 1966, ch. 83, § 1; Acts 1971, Ex. Sess., ch. 166, § 1; Acts 1974, ch. 595, § 1, Acts 1988, ch. 157; Acts 1990, ch. 652, § 1)