The requirements and provisions of this Article
XX shall apply to conditional uses and amendments to this chapter.
The Board of Supervisors may, from time to time, after public
notice and hearing as hereinafter prescribed, amend, supplement, change,
or repeal this chapter, including the Zoning Map. Any amendment, supplement,
change or repeal may be initiated by the Township Planning Commission,
the Board of Supervisors or by a petition to the Board of Supervisors.
Unless initiated by the Township Planning Commission, such amendment,
supplement, change or repeal shall be submitted to the Township Planning
Commission for its recommendations; and if the same, after public
hearing, shall be specifically found by the Board of Supervisors to
be in accordance with the spirit and intent of the formally adopted
portions of the most-recent version of the Lancaster Township Comprehensive
Plan, as amended, final action shall be taken by the Board of Supervisors
on such amendment.
When an amendment, supplement, change or repeal is initiated
by the Township Planning Commission, the proposal shall be presented
to the Board of Supervisors, which shall then proceed in the same
manner as with a petition to the Board of Supervisors which has already
been reviewed by the Township Planning Commission.
When an amendment, supplement, change or repeal is initiated
by the Board of Supervisors, it shall submit the proposal to the Township
Planning Commission for review and recommendations.
The petition for amendment, supplement, change or repeal shall
contain as fully as possible all the information requested by the
Zoning Officer and shall be signed by at least one record owner of
the property in question, whose signature shall be notarized attesting
to the truth and correctness of all the facts and information presented
in the petition. In addition to the petition, the applicant shall
concurrently submit a proposed amending ordinance that reflects the
changes proposed by the petition. A fee to be established by the Board
of Supervisors shall be paid upon the filing of such petition for
change and for the purpose of defraying the costs of the proceedings
prescribed herein.
Before taking any action on the adoption or rejection of a proposed
amendment to this chapter, the Board of Supervisors shall fix a time
and place for a public hearing at which parties of interest and citizens
shall have an opportunity to be heard. Notice of the time and place
of such hearing shall be published in one newspaper of general circulation
in the Township once each week for two successive weeks, not more
than 30 days and not less than 14 days prior to the date of said hearing.
At the time and place specified, the Board of Supervisors shall
conduct a hearing on said petition to amend, supplement, change or
repeal this chapter or the Zoning Map of the Township and shall thereafter,
within a period of 30 days, either reject the proposed change or adopt
an ordinance implementing the proposed change. The Board of Supervisors
may adjourn said hearing at its discretion to a time and place certain.
Whenever there has been a change in the boundary of a zoning
district or a reclassification of the zoning district adopted in accordance
with the above, the change on the Official Map shall be made and shall
be duly certified by the Township Secretary and shall thereafter be
filed as part of the permanent records of the Township.