Marvin Mandel, Governor                        1883

[4.]

2.04 Method of Procedure

The Mayor and City Council of Baltimore City [local legislative
body of such municipality] shall provide 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] modified. However, no
such regulation, restriction, or boundary shall become effective until
after [a] at least one public hearing in relation thereto, at which
parties in interest and citizens shall have an opportunity to be heard.
At least fifteen days' notice of the time and place of such hearing
shall be published in an official paper, or a paper of general circula-
tion, in [such municipality] Baltimore City and, in case of the change
in boundary or boundaries of any zoning district, a similar notice
shall be posted at such place or places as the respective zoning au-
thorities shall designate within the zone proposed to be changed, and
notice of the proposed change shall be sent by first class United
States mail to the person or persons whose name last appeared among
the tax records of [such municipality] Baltimore City as the owner
of the property proposed to be changed.

[5.]

2.05 Changes

(a)  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to time be amended, supplemented, [changed,] modified, or repealed.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 (20%) or more either of the area of the
lots included in such proposed change or of those immediately adja-
cent to the rear, or to either side, thereof extending one hundred
(100) feet therefrom, or of those directly opposite thereto extending
one hundred (100) feet from the street frontage of such opposite
lots, such amendment shall not become effective except by the fav-
orable vote of three fourths of all the members of the legislative
body of such municipality.] Where the purpose and effect of the
proposed amendment is to change the zoning classification of par-
ticular property, the local legislative body shall make findings of fact
in each specific case including, but not limited to, the following mat-
ters: population change, availability of public facilities, present and
future transportation patterns, compatibility with existing and pro-
posed development for the area, the recommendation of the planning
commission, AND THE BOARD OF MUNICIPAL AND ZONING
APPEALS, and the relation of such proposed amendment to the
jurisdiction's plan; and may grant the amendment based upon these

findings or upon a finding that there was a mistake in the existing

zoning. A FINDING THAT THERE WAS A SUBSTANTIAL
CHANGE IN THE CHARACTER OF THE NEIGHBORHOOD
WHERE THE PROPERTY IS LOCATED OR THAT THERE WAS
A MISTAKE IN THE EXISTING ZONING CLASSIFICATION.
The provisions of subsection (d) of this section relative to public
hearings and official notice shall apply equally to all changes or
amendments.

(b)  The [legislative body] Mayor and City Council shall refer
proposed changes to the district boundary lines to the [city or town]
Baltimore City Planning Commission and to the Board of Municipal