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Art. III, Sec. 11 CHARTER 12 Each emergency measure shall contain a statement of the necessity for such emergency action, and shall require the aff'irmative vote of two-thirds of the members of Council for its enactment. No ordinance or resolution (a) relating to any change in the boundaries of the Municipality, (b) providing for the surrender or joint exercise of any of its po.wers, (c) enacting, amending or repealing any zoning ordinance or other matter described in Sections 11 and 12 of this Article III, (d) granting any franchise, or (e) contracting for the supply to the Municipality or its inhabitants of the product or service of any utility, whether municipally owned or not, shall be enacted as an emergency measure. (Amended 5-8-84.) SECTION 11. MANDATORY REFERRAL OF ORDINANCES AND RESOLUTIONS. No public building, street, boulevard, parkway, park, playground, bridge, tunnel, publicly or privately owned utility or part thereof shall be constructed or authorized to be constructed in the Municipality, nor shall any street, avenue, parkway, boulevard or alley be opened for any purpose whatsoever, nor shall any street, avenue, parkway, boulevard or alley be widened, narrowed, relocated, vacated, or its use changed, nor shall any ordinance referring to zoning or other regulations controlling the use or development of land or changing the existing zoning or use of land, be adopted unless and until it shall have been submitted to the Planning and Zoning Commission for report and recommendation. Any matter so referred to the Planning and Zoning Commission shall be acted upon by it within ninety (90) days from the date of referral unless a different period of time is mutually agreed upon between Council and the Commission. If the Planning and Zoning Commission shall fail to act within the time allotted, it shall be deemed to have approved such matter. Any resolution, ordinance or order disapproved by formal action of the Planning and Zoning Commission shall require a vote of two-thirds of the members of the Council to be authorized or adopted. (Amended 11-8-05.) SECTION 12. PUBLIC NOTICE AND HEARING ON CERTAIN ORDINANCES. Before any ordinance or resolution may be enacted by the Council amending or repealing any: (a) platting ordinance, (b) the zoning map of the Municipality, (c) zoning or use classification or district, (d) restrictions on height of buildings and other structures, (e) the size of parcels in any zoning or use classification, or (fl the percentage of lot occupancy of buildings and other structures; the Council shall (i) refer such ordinance or resolution to the Planning and Zoning Commission for report and recommendation as required by Section 11 of this Article III; (ii) read the same in full or 2006 Replacement