Legal Documents of Sweetwater

The regulations and the number or boundaries of districts established by the zoning code may be amended, supplemented, changed, modified, or repealed by the mayor and board of commissioners, but in accordance with the Tennessee enabling legislation, no amendment shall become effective unless it is first submitted to and approved by the planning commission, or, if disapproved, shall receive a majority vote of the mayor and board of commissioners. The planning commission upon its own initiative may hold a public hearing, public notice of which shall be given, for the consideration of any proposed amendment of the provisions of chapters 2 through 7 of this title or to the zoning map, and report its recommendations to the mayor and board of commissioners. (1982 Code, § 11-608)