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Ordinance amending portions of Section 24.16 of the Wauwatosa Municipal Code providing that zoning-related public hearings shall be held by the Common Council in advance of introduction at Plan Commission
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The common council of the City of Wauwatosa do ordain as follows:
Part I. The text of subsection 24.16.020 of the Wauwatosa Municipal Code of Ordinances is hereby amended to read in its entirety as follows:
A. Authority to Initiate. Amendments to the text of this zoning ordinance may be initiated by the common council or the plan commission, or following the filing of an application with the zoning administrator.
B. Public Hearing and Notice of Hearing. Upon receiving a completed application for a Zoning Ordinance Text Amendment, planning staff shall schedule a public hearing before the common council and prepare appropriate notice and publications. Class 2 notice of the common council's required public hearing on a zoning ordinance text amendment must be published in accordance with chapter 985 of the Wisconsin Statutes.
C. Plan Commission Recommendation. Following the required public hearing before the common council, proposed zoning ordinance text amendments must be referred to the plan commission. Following their review of the proposed text amendment, the plan commission must act by simple majority vote of those members present and voting to recommend that the proposed text amendment be approved, approved with modifications, or denied. The plan commission's recommendation must be transmitted to the common council.
D. Common Council Consideration and Decision.
1. Upon receipt of recommendations from the plan commission, the common council may act to approve, approve with modifications or deny the proposed text amendment. If the plan commission's recommendation has not been forwarded to the common council within 60 days of referral of the proposed text amendment to the plan commission, the common council may take action without receipt of ...
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