A. 
The Town Board may, from time to time, on its own motion or on petition or on recommendations from the Planning Board, amend the regulations and districts established under this chapter after public notice and hearing in each case.
B. 
Environmental impact. Before adopting any proposed amendment to this chapter, the Town Board shall assess the environmental impact of such amendment in accordance with the provisions of the State Environmental Quality Review Act of 1975 or any local law enacted pursuant thereto and may determine that an environmental impact statement on such amendment shall be prepared.
C. 
Adoption after protest. The favorable vote of at least four members of the Town Board shall be required before the passage of an amendment which is protested by the owners of 20% or more of:
(1) 
The area of land included in such proposed change.
(2) 
The land approximately adjacent extending 100 feet therefrom or of that directly opposite thereto extending 100 feet from the street frontage of such opposite land.
Every proposed amendment, unless initiated by the Planning Board, shall be referred to the Planning Board. The Planning Board shall report its recommendations thereon to the Town Board, accompanied by a full statement of the reasons for such recommendations, prior to the public hearing. If the Planning Board fails to report within a period of 45 days from the date of receipt of notice or such longer time as may have been agreed upon by it and the Town Board, the Town Board may act without such report. If the Planning Board disapproves the proposed amendment or recommends modification thereof, the Town Board shall not act contrary to such disapproval or recommendation except by the adoption of a resolution fully setting forth the reasons for such contrary action.
The regulations, restrictions and boundaries established by this chapter may from time to time be amended, supplemented, changed, modified or repealed by ordinance in accordance with the procedures provided by §§ 264 and 265 of the Town Law. However, all amendments to this chapter which would change the district classification or the regulations applying to real property lying within a distance of 500 feet from the boundary of the Town of Sodus or the boundary of any existing or proposed county or state park or other recreational area, or from the right-of-way of any existing or proposed county or state parkway, thruway, expressway, road or highway, or from the right-of-way of any existing or proposed stream or drainage channel owned by the county for which the county has established channel lines, or from the existing or proposed boundary of any county- or state-owned land on which a public building or institution is situated, shall be referred to the Wayne County Planning Board as required by § 239-m of the General Municipal Law. The term "proposed" shall be deemed to include only those recreational areas, parkways, thruways, expressways, roads or highways which are shown on a County Plan of Wayne County adopted pursuant to § 239-d, Subdivision 2, of the General Municipal Law or adopted as an Official Map of Wayne County pursuant to § 239-g of the General Municipal Law. If the Wayne County Planning Board fails to report within 30 days after receipt of a full statement of such referred matter, the Town Board of Sodus may act without such report. If the Wayne County Planning Board disapproves of the proposed amendment, supplement, change or modification or recommends modification of the proposal of the Town of Sodus, the Town Board shall not act contrary to such disapproval or recommendation except by a vote of a majority plus one of all the members thereof and after the adoption of a resolution fully setting forth the reason for such contrary action.
The Town Board, by resolution, shall fix the time and place of the public hearing and cause notice to be given by publishing a notice of the proposed amendment and the time and place of the public hearing in a newspaper of general circulation in the Town not less than 10 days prior to the date of public hearing.
The Planning Board, in accordance with Town Law § 281, may, simultaneously with the approval of any plat, make any reasonable change to the regulations established under this chapter with respect to the land so platted. Before the Planning Board shall make any such change, there shall be a public hearing preceded by the same notice as in the case of the approval of the plat itself. Upon the filing of the plat in the office of the County Clerk, such change shall be and become a part of the regulations of this chapter, shall take the place of any regulations established herein by the Town Board, shall be enforced in the same manner and shall be similarly subject to amendment.
Every amendment to this chapter, including any map incorporated therein, adopted in accordance with the Town Law, shall be entered in the minutes of the Town Board, and a copy thereof, exclusive of any map incorporated therein, shall be published once in the official newspaper of the Town of Sodus, and a copy of such amendment, together with a copy of any map incorporated therein, shall be posted on a signboard maintained by the Town Clerk pursuant to Subsection 6 of § 30 of the Town Law. Affidavits of the publication and posting thereof shall be filed with the Town Clerk.