These regulations, restrictions and provisions
and the boundaries of the districts may from time to time be amended,
supplemented, changed, modified or repealed by the Mayor and Council.
Any person or officer, department, board, commission or bureau of
the Town may petition for such change or amendment; however, no such
change or amendment shall become effective until after a public hearing
in relation thereto, at which parties in interest and citizens shall
have an opportunity to be heard. At least 15 days' notice of the time
and place of such hearing shall be published in a newspaper of general
circulation in the Town, and if the proposed amendment involves a
change in a zoning district boundary line, the property involved shall
be posted for a period of 15 days immediately preceding the hearing.
Where an official annexation by the Town is involved, the requirements
of the Annotated Code of Maryland (Article 23 inclusive) shall govern
and be applicable, as shall applicable provisions of the Carroll County
Zoning Ordinance relating to official annexations by any municipality
of Carroll County.
The Mayor and Council shall refer all proposed
changes and amendments to these regulations or proposed changes in
a zoning district to the Planning and Zoning Commission for report
and recommendations.
Before acting upon proposed changes and amendments
to these regulations or changes in the zoning district boundary lines,
the Mayor and Council shall consider the following:
B.
The report and recommendation of the Commission.
C.
Whether there have been any substantial changes in
or near the area covered by a proposed change in the district boundary
lines.
D.
Any new phases of the Master Plan for Sykesville developed
since the adoption of these regulations.
E.
Whether it is clearly evident that there was an error
or mistake in the zoning of the subject property.
F.
Whether there has been a convincing demonstration
that the proposed rezoning would have been fully as appropriate and
logical for the subject property as was the zone in which it was placed.
The Commission shall study zoning, its development,
application and relation to public and private development and its
relation to other phases of the Master Plan for the development and
may, from time to time, submit amendments to these regulations or
changes in the district boundaries to the Mayor and Council. However,
no such amendment or change shall become effective until approved
by the Mayor and Council as required by this article.
Unless otherwise provided by Article 66B of
the Annotated Code of Maryland, as amended, no proposed amendment,
supplement or change to this chapter shall be approved without the
favorable votes of members of the Council as required by the Town
Charter.
If a petition for a change in a zoning district
boundary is disapproved by the Mayor and Council, thereafter the Mayor
and Council shall take no further action on another petition for the
same or substantially the same proposal on the same premises until
after 12 months from the date of the last disapproval.
Every application for a change in zoning of
district boundaries shall be accompanied by a scale drawing, showing
the existing and proposed boundaries and such other information as
may be needed to properly locate and plat the amendment on the official
Zoning Maps.
A filing fee shall be charged for processing
an application for a change in zoning, as may be determined by the
Mayor and Council.
