N.Y. General City Law § 83: Amendments, alterations and changes in district lines

§ 83. Amendments, alterations and changes in district lines. 1. The

common council may from time to time on its own motion or on petition,

after public notice and hearing, which hearing may be held by the

council or by a committee of the council or by the planning board, amend

the regulations and districts established under any ordinance or local

law adopted pursuant to paragraphs twenty-four and twenty-five of

section twenty of this chapter. Wherever the owners of fifty per centum

or more of the frontage in any district or part thereof shall present a

petition duly signed and acknowledged, to the common council, requesting

an amendment, supplement, change or repeal of the regulations prescribed

for such district or part thereof, it shall be the duty of the council

to vote upon said petition within ninety days after the filing of the

same by the petitioners with the secretary of the council.

2. An amendment shall be effected by a simple majority vote of the

council, except that an amendment shall require the approval of at least

three-fourths of the members of the council in the event such amendment

is the subject of a written protest, presented to the council and signed

by:

(a) the owners of twenty percent or more of the area of land included

in such proposed change; or

(b) the owners of twenty percent or more of the area of land

immediately adjacent to that land included in such proposed change,

extending one hundred feet therefrom; or

(c) the owners of twenty percent or more of the area of land directly

opposite thereto, extending one hundred feet from the street frontage of

such opposite land.