ORDINANCE NO. 968

AN ORDINANCE AMENDING SECTION 12 OF CHAPTER 83 OF THE 1953 COMPILED ORDINANCES OF THE CITY OF GRAND JUNCTION, COLORADO, PERTAINING TO AMENDMENTS AND CHANGES IN ZONING.

 BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF GRAND JUNCTION, COLORADO:

 Section 1. Section 12, Chapter 83, of the 1953 Compiled Ordinances of the City of Grand Junction, Colorado, is hereby amended to read as follows:

 Section 12. CHANGES AND AMENDMENTS. The City Council may from time to time, on its own motion or on petition, after public notice and hearing as provided by law, and after report by the Grand Junction Planning Commission, amend, supplement or change the boundaries or regulations herein subsequently established. Whenever the owners of 50 percent or more of the frontage in any district or part thereof present a petition duly signed and acknowledged to the Council requesting an amendment, supplement or change in the regulations prescribed for such district or part thereof, it shall be the duty of the Council to vote upon such petition within ninety days after the filing by the petitioners with the Clerk of the City Council. In case the proposed amendment, supplement or change be disapproved by the Grand Junction Planning Commission, or a protest be presented duly signed and acknowledged by the owners of 20 per cent or more, either of the area of the lots included in such proposed change, or those immediately adjacent in the rear thereof extending one hundred feet therefrom, or of those directly opposite thereto extending one hundred feet from the street frontage of such opposite lots, such amendment, supplement or change, shall not be passed except by an affirmative vote of at least three-fourths of the members of the City Council; provided, however, that no protest will be considered unless the same is delivered to the office of the City Clerk of the City of Grand Junction prior to 12 o'clock Noon of the first day preceding the day set for the public hearing on the proposed change.

 PASSED AND ADOPTED this 18th day of July, 1956.

/s/ W. D. Lowe

President of the City Council

ATTEST:

/s/ Helen C. Tomlinson

City Clerk

 I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing ordinance, being Ordinance No. 968 was introduced, read and ordered published by the City Council of the City of Grand Junction, Colorado, at a special meeting of said body, held on the 3rd day of July, 1956, and that the same was published in The Daily Sentinel, a newspaper published and in general circulation in said City at least ten days before its final passage.

 IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the official seal of said City, this 19th day of July, 1956.

/s/ Helen C. Tomlinson

City Clerk

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