If any part or provision of this chapter or the application
thereof to any person or circumstance be adjudged invalid by any court
of competent jurisdiction, such judgment shall be confined in its
operation to the part, provision or application directly involved
in the controversy in which such judgment shall have been rendered
and shall not affect or impair the validity of the remainder of this
chapter or the application thereof to other persons or circumstances,
and the Village Board of Trustees hereby declares that it would have
enacted this chapter or the remainder thereof had the invalidity of
such provision or application thereof been apparent.
This chapter may from time to time be amended. An amendment
shall be effected by a simple majority vote of the Village Board of
Trustees, or by 3/4 of the members of the Village Board of Trustees
in the event that such amendment is the subject of a written protest
presented to the Board and signed by:
A. The owners of 20% or more of the area of land included in such proposed
change; or
B. The owners of 20% or more of the area of land immediately adjacent
to that land included in such proposed change, extending 100 feet
therefrom; or
C. The owners of 20% or more of the area of land directly opposite thereto,
extending 100 feet from the lot frontage of such opposite land.
Wherever the requirements of this chapter are at variance with
the requirements of any other lawfully adopted rules, regulations
or ordinances, the more restrictive or that imposing the higher standards
shall govern.