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153 ~pplications for changes of district boun~aries or classifications or for variances are made, end may require the filing therewith of any plans, profiles, elevations or specifications necessary for a full understanding. It may prepare · and provide blanks for such purpose and may prescribe the type, nature and amount of information to be provided in the application by the petitioner. No petition shall be received unless it cormplies with such requirements. If signatures of persons other than the ovmers of property making the application ar~ required or offered in suppbrt of, or in opposition to, the application they may be received as evidence of notice having been served upon them of the pendiug application or as evidence of their opinion on the pending issue, but they shall in no case infringe upon the free exercise of the powers vested in the City of Santa Aha. Petitions or applications filed pursuant to this ordinance shall be numbered consecutively in the order of their filing and shall become a p~rt of the permanent official records of the Planning Commission, and there shall be attached thereto and permanently filed therewith copies of all notices and actions with affidavits of posting, mailing or publication pertaining thereto. A fee of Ten ($10.00) Dollars shall be paid upon the~filing of each petition provided for in Section 12 and a fee of Twenty-five ($~5.00~ Dollars shall be paid upon the filing of each petition provided for in Section 13, for the purpose of defraying the expense of postage, posting, advertising and other costs incidental to the proceedings prescribed herein. A written receipt shall be issued te the person making such payment, and records of such payments and expenditures thereof shall be kept in such manner as prescribed by law. Notices. All proposals for amending district boundaries or classificati¢ of property uses within such districts as defined by~thls ordinance or the grant- ing of variances as provided in Section 13 hereof, shall be set for public hearing as follows: (a) Not less than ten (10) days nor more than thirty (30) ~ays after the filing of an application or motion of the Planning Commiscion the Secretary of the Planning Commission shall, pursuant to practice defined by the Planning Commission, set a date for public hearing on the matter. (b) Not less than five ~5) days before the date of such public hear- ing public notice shall be given of such public hearing in either or both of the following manners. Both methods shall be used unless the Planning Commission directs otherwise. 1. By posting in front of the property under consideration a notice consisting of the words "NOTICE OF PROPOSED CHANOE OF USE DISTRICT BOUNDARIES OR CLASSIFICATION", or "NOTICE OF PROPOSED VARIANCE", as the case may be, printed in plain type with letters of not less than one inch in height and a statement in six or eight point type setting forth a description of the property under con- sideration, the nature of the proposed change, and the time and place at which a public hearing on the matter will be held. If more thau one parcel of property is involved, then notices shall be posted not more than one hundred feet apart on each side of the street upon which said property frm ts and for a distance of not less than three hundred (300) feet in each direction from said property. ~. By mailing a postal card notice of not less than five (~) days prior to date of such hearing to the owners of all property within a radius of three hundred (300) feet of the exterior boundaries of the property proposed to be changed, using for this purpose the last known name and address of such owners as s~wn upon the County tax roll. Such postal card notices shall contain the same iEFormation as required in sub-paragraph (1) above. Investigations. The Planning Commission shall c~use to be made by its own members, or members of its staff, such investi?ation of faots bearing upon much application set for hearing, including an analysis of precedent cases, as will serve to provide all necessary Informat~n to assure action on each c~se consistent with the purposes of this ordinance and with previous amendments or ~arianoes. Hearings. Public hearings as provided in this section shall be conduct. ed before the City Planning Commission, or before any member thereof designated b the whole Commission to so serve. The Commission may establish its own rules for the conduct of public hearings and the member of the commission presiding at any such hearing is hereby empowered to administer oaths to any person testifying before it. Summary of all pertinent testimony offered at a public hearing and the names of persons so testifying shall be recorded and made a part of the permanent file of the case as provided for in paragraph of this Section entitled "Petitions' If, for any reason, testimony on any case set for public hearing cannot be completed on the day set for such hearing, the Commissioner presiding at such public hearing may, before the adjournment or recess thereof, publicly aunounce the time and place to and at which said hearing will be continued and such announcement shall serve as sufficient notice of such continuance and without recourse to the form of public notice as provided for in the first instance by this Section. Upon the c~pletion of a public hearing, the City Planning Commission shall, not later than thirty (30) days thereafter, render its decision on the matter so heard. Failure to so act within said thirty (30) days shall serve to automatically and immediately refer the whole matter to the City Council for such action as it deems warranted under the circumstances. In the event of such failure on the part of the Planning Commission to act, the Secretary of the Commission shall Imm~ediately deliver to the City Council all the records of the matter involved.