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Chapter Thirteen ~ Amendments & Changes <br /> <br />3. A legal description of the proposed rezoning. <br /> <br /> If rezoning to an "SU" district is desired, petitioner also submits a development plan <br />as described in Section I3-11, part 3 at this time. <br /> <br /> ®Step 2: Staff Review. The Planning and Zoning Department staff review the submitted <br />application. If the rezoning is to an "SU" district, the staff also reviews the proposed <br />development plan. After review, the staff will again meet with the petitioner to discuss its <br />recommendation. The petitioner may refuse or accept staff recommendations. <br /> <br /> ®Step 3: The Planning and Zoning Commission. The Planning and Zoning Commission <br />will consider all applications to amend the atlas or text of this Ordinance at their regularly <br />scheduled monthly meetings. Applications must be filed thirty (30) days prior to the regularly <br />scheduled monthly meeting so that staff evaluations can be accomplished. Applications along <br />with respective staff evaluations must be submitted to the Planning and Zoning Commission at <br />least five (5) days prior to the regular monthly meeting date. <br /> <br /> ®Step 4: Planning and Zoning Commission Recommendations.to Commissioners. Within <br />forty (40) days of heating the presentation of the application to amend, the Planning and Zoning <br />Commission shall make a decision on the rezoning petition. A special use rezoning decision <br />shall be supported by findings of fact arrived from sworn testimony presented at the official <br />public heating held by the Planning and Zoning Commission. The. Planning and Zoning <br />Commission decision shall be considered the final action if the vote to approve or deny the <br />request is of at least three-fourths of the Planning and Zoning Commission members present and <br />not excused from voting and if no appeal of the decision is made. <br /> <br /> ®Step 5: Commissioner's Public Hearing (if needed). If an approval or denial is by a <br />vote of less than three-fourths of the members of the Planning and Zoning Commission or if an <br />appeal is taken, then the County Commissioners shall make the final decision on the rezoning <br />petition. Any person aggrieved by the recommendation of the designated planning agency shall. <br />have the right to appeal the action of the Planning and Zoning Commission to the County <br />Commissioners by giving notice in writing to the County Manager within fifteen (15) days of <br />the action of the planning agency. In the case of an appeal, the Board of County Commissioners <br />shall hear the application de novo (anew). <br /> <br /> · Step 6: Notification. Prior to the official public hearing, notification shall comply with <br />G.S. 153A-343 and G.S. 153A-323. In general, notice will be given twice in a newspaper of <br />general circulation in the County with the first time not less than ten (10) days nor more than <br />twenty-five (25) days before the date fixed for the public hearing. First class mail notification <br />shall be mailed to the owner of the parcel(s) of land involved in the proposed rezoning. This <br />mail notification shall also be sent to all property owners who have property that abuts the <br />parcel(s) of land under consideration. The first class mail notice shall be sent to the last <br /> <br />2O7 <br /> <br /> <br />