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<baltimore-city-law heading="§ 5-604 Planning Commission consideration of site-specific projects.">
  <section prefix="§" num="5-604" heading="Planning Commission consideration of site-specific projects.">
    <para num="(a)" heading="Hearing required.">For any site-specific matter, the Planning Commission must conduct a public hearing at which:<para num="(1)">the parties in interest and general public will have an opportunity to be heard; and</para>
      <para num="(2)">staff reports and recommendations will be read.</para>
    </para>
    <para num="(b)" heading="Notice of hearing.">
      <para num="(1)" heading="In general.">In addition to any other form of notice required by law or regulation, notice of the hearing must be given by posting in conspicuous places within and around the perimeter of the subject property or area.</para>
      <para num="(2)" heading="Exceptions.">Where a property is added to a proposal by amendment, the requirements of paragraph (1) of this subsection (b) do not apply if:<para num="(i)">a notice was previously mailed to the owner of record of the property about the proposed inclusion; or</para>
        <para num="(ii)">the property owner of record has agreed to the proposed inclusion by amendment either in person at a public meeting or in writing.</para>
      </para>
    </para>
    <para num="(c)" heading="Contents of notice.">The posted notice must include:<para num="(1)">the date, time, place, and purpose of the hearing;</para>
      <para num="(2)">the address of the subject property or a drawing or description of the boundaries of the subject area;</para>
      <para num="(3)">the name and address of the applicant; and</para>
      <para num="(4)">how additional information on the matter can be obtained.</para>
    </para>
    <para num="(d)" heading="Number and manner of posted notices.">The number of posted notices and the manner of their posting are as follows:<para num="(1)">For a notice applicable only to an individual property, at least one sign must be visible from each of the property’s street frontages.</para>
      <para num="(2)">For a notice applicable to more than one property (e.g., a modification to a Planned Unit Development), at least 2 or more signs are required, as the Department of Planning designates.</para>
      <para num="(3)">Each sign must be at least 3 feet by 4 feet in size.</para>
      <para num="(4)">Each sign must be composed of waterproof materials sufficient to ensure the sign will last the required posting period (corrugated vinyl and polyurethane banner being acceptable).</para>
    </para>
    <para num="(e)" heading="Timing of notice.">The posted notice must be:<para num="(1)">posted at least 10 days before the public hearing; and</para>
      <para num="(2)">removed within 48 hours after conclusion of the hearing.</para>
    </para>
    <para num="(f)" heading="Copy of agenda to Councilmembers.">At least 4 calendar days before any meeting of the Planning Commission, the Commission must deliver to each member of the City Council, by email or in person, an agenda of all matters that the Planning Commission proposes to consider at that meeting.</para>
    <para num="(g)" heading="Written notice to property owners within PUD.">When applying for the creation of a new planned unit development or for a major change or repeal of a planned unit development, the applicant must provide written notification to all other owners, or their authorized agents, of property within the proposed or existing planned unit development boundaries, as the Department of Planning requires.</para>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 16-581</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 17-015</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 19-252</annotation>
    <annotation type="History" />
  </section>
</baltimore-city-law>
