Arizona Arizona Revised Statutes

§ 9-462.04 — Public hearing required; definition

ARS § 9-462.04Title 9. Cities and Towns · Ch. 4. GENERAL POWERS · Art. 6.1. Municipal Zoning

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9-462.04. Public hearing required; definition A. If the municipality has a planning commission or a hearing officer, the planning commission or hearing officer shall hold a public hearing on any zoning ordinance. Notice of the time and place of the hearing, including a general explanation of the matter to be considered and a general description of the area affected, shall be given at least fifteen days before the hearing in the following manner: 1. The notice shall be published at least once in a newspaper of general circulation published or circulated in the municipality, or if there is none, it shall be posted on the affected property in such a manner as to be legible from the public right-of-way and in at least ten public places in the municipality. A posted notice shall be printed so that the following are visible from a distance of one hundred feet: the word "zoning", the present zoning district classification, the proposed zoning district classification and the date and time of the hearing. 2. In proceedings involving rezoning of land that abuts other municipalities or unincorporated areas of the county or a combination of a municipality and an unincorporated area, copies of the notice of public hearing shall be transmitted to the planning agency of the governmental unit abutting such land. In proceedings involving rezoning of land that is located within the territor1y in the vicinity of a military airport or ancillary military facility as defined in section 28-8461 or within the influence area of a military installation or range or Arizona national guard site, the municipality shall send copies of the notice of public hearing by first class mail to the military airport or military installation or range or Arizona national guard site. In addition to notice by publication, a municipality may give notice of the hearing in any other manner that the municipality deems necessary or desirable. For the purposes of this paragraph, "influence area" and "military installation or range or Arizona national guard site" have the same meanings prescribed in section 9-500.50. 3. In proceedings that are not initiated by the property owner involving rezoning of land that may change the zoning classification, notice by first class mail shall be sent to each real property owner, as shown on the last assessment of the property, of the area to be rezoned and all property owners, as shown on the last assessment of the property, within three hundred feet of the property to be rezoned. 4. In proceedings involving one or more of the following proposed changes or related series of changes in the standards governing land uses, notice shall be provided in the manner prescribed by paragraph 5 of this subsection:

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