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to avoid undue concentration of population; to facilitate the adequate
provision of transportation, water, sewerage, schools, parks and other pub-
lic requirements, and such regulations' shall be made with reasonable con-
sideration, among other things, to the character of the district and its
peculiar suitability for particular uses, and with a view to conserving the
value of buildings and encouraging the most appropriate use of land
throughout the City of Cumberland and the territory one mile beyond the
City Limits.

1924, ch. 560, sec. 4.

182. The Mayor and City Council shall provide by ordinance for the
manner in which such regulations and restrictions and the boundaries of
such districts shall be determined, established and enforced, and from time
to time amended, supplemented or changed. However, no such regulation,
restriction or boundary shall become effective until after a public hearing
in relation thereto, at which parties in interest and citizens shall have an
opportunity to be heard. At least ten days' notice of the time and place
of such hearing shall be published in two of the daily newspapers pub-
lished in the City of Cumberland.

1924, ch. 560, sec. 5.

183. Such regulations, restrictions and boundaries may from time to
time be amended, supplemented, changed, modified or repealed. In case,
however, of a protest against such change signed by the owners of twenty
per cent, or more either of the area of the lots included in such proposed
change, or of those immediately adjacent in the rear thereof extending
one hundred and fifty feet therefrom, or of those directly opposite thereto,
extending one hundred and fifty feet from the street frontage of such
opposite lots, such amendment shall not become effective except by the
favorable vote of the Mayor and three members of the City Council. The
provisions of the previous section relative to public hearings and official
notice shall apply equally to all changes or amendments.

1924, ch. 560, sec. 6.

184. In order to avail itself of the powers conferred by this Act the
Mayor and City Council of Cumberland shall appoint a Commission of
such number as they in their discretion consider desirable, and of which
the City Solicitor and the City Engineer shall be ex-officio members, to
be known as the Zoning Commission to recommend the boundaries of the
various original districts, and to recommend the appropriate regulations
to be enforced therein. Such Commission shall make a preliminary report
and hold public hearings thereon before submitting its final report, and
the Mayor and City Council shall not hold its public hearings or take
action until it has received the final report of such Commission.

1924, ch. 560, sec. 7.

185. The Mayor and City Council may provide by ordinance for the
appointment by the Mayor of a Board of Adjustment, and in the regula-
tions and restrictions adopted pursuant to the authority of this Act may