§ 34a. CERTAIN ZONING MEASURES; NOTICE, PETITIONS, MANNER OF APPROVAL.

When a petition signed by fifty-one (51) percent of the electors residing in a precinct and/or in one or more adjoining precincts as hereinafter specified shall have been filed with the Clerk of the Council prior to final passage by Council of an ordinance changing the use, area, and/or height classification, or granting a conditional use in any Residential Zoning District within the City of Akron, and said petition registers disapproval of such proposed ordinance, as hereinafter provided, then said ordinance shall not be passed except upon a three-fourths vote of the members of Council eligible to vote as determined by the Director of Law. The fifty-one (51) percent aforesaid shall be fifty-one (51) percent of the total votes cast in said precinct or precincts aforesaid in the last preceding general municipal election, and said fifty-one (51) percent of signatures shall be required in each precinct in which said petitions are circulated; provided electors of different precincts may sign the same petition. The precincts in which said petitions may originate may be the precinct or precincts in which is located the change proposed by said ordinance of the Council, and/or any one or more adjoining precincts. The Clerk shall provide notice of the pendency of any such ordinance by first class mail to owners and residents of property within, contiguous to and directly across the street from the property involved in said ordinance, and by publication in a newspaper of general circulation in the City, and no such ordinance shall be acted upon by the Council until at least fifteen (15) days after the Clerk has mailed and published such notice.

(V 107 p 573; Approved by voters Nov. 2, 1971) (Amendment adopted by electorate 11-4-80; Amendment adopted by electorate 11-6-90; Amendment adopted by electorate 11-7-00)