ZONING ORDINANCE - Stark County, North Dakota

8.7 Amendments
6) Receive, file, and forward to the Planning and Zoning Commission all
applications for preliminary and final plats and the supporting documents.
The Commission may from time to time on its own motion, by petition, or on
recommendation of the Planning and Zoning Commission, amend, supplement or repeal the
provisions of this Ordinance following a public hearing.
Any person, firm or corporation which owns land is entitled to submit an application for
amendment to the Zoning District Map.
8.7.1 Procedure for Amendments:
1) Applications for amendment shall be filed with the County Zoning
Administrator.
2) An application for amendment shall include:
a) Name and address of the applicant. Name and address of the owner.
If the applicant and the owner are different, the owner shall submit a
signed statement authorizing the applicant as a representative.
3) A legal description of the property (if the property has not been platted,
provide a metes and bounds description), a parcel identification number, a
copy of a recorded deed, the general parcel information page from the
County Assessor, the Property Record Card Report from the County
Assessor, and a map of appropriate scale showing the area in question,
current and proposed zoning and adjacent zoning.
4) The nature of the change requested and reason for the change.
5) A detailed description of any uses, building or structures that are proposed
for the area covered by the petition.
6) Any additional information requested by the Planning and Zoning
Commission.
7) The Planning and Zoning Commission shall hold a public hearing on any
request for a zoning map amendment, a notice of which shall be published at
least two weeks prior to the hearing in the official newspaper of the county.
The notice of hearing shall include:
a) the time and place of hearing;
b) description of the property to be affected;
c) the proposed use; and
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