Section 25.22.020 Notice.

1. The secretary to the body charged with conducting the hearing shall give notice of such public hearing in the form and manner to the persons herein specified.

The notice shall include the date, time and place of such hearing, a description of the contents of the matter to be heard, and the address or location of the property involved. Where notice by mail is required, it shall be given at least seven days in advance of the hearing date by regular United States mail, except that notice to city agencies or officials may be by interdepartmental memorandum.

2. Notices shall be given to each of the following as specified:

a. In all cases: by mail to the applicant; the owner of any property subject of the application and to any other person or persons deemed by the secretary to the body holding the hearing to have a direct interest in the subject matter of the hearing;

b. In the case of proposed text amendments: by publication in an official paper or a newspaper of general circulation in the city at least once, not more than thirty nor less than fifteen days before the date of the hearing;

c. In the case of hearings relating to a proposed amendment, planned development, conditional use permit, temporary use permit or variance involving a particular parcel or tract of land by mail to all owners of property located:

(1) Within the area proposed for change,

(2) Within two hundred feet of any boundary of any lot proposed for change. In measuring the aforesaid two hundred feet the width of any street or other public right-of-way encountered shall be added to the distance,

(3) To any other person or persons deemed by the secretary of the hearing body or by the hearing body to have a direct interest in the hearing,

(4) It shall be the policy of the city to give as full and adequate notice as practicable to all interested persons and to the general public, but the good-faith failure to mail notice to any person entitled thereto except as specified in Chapter 414, Code of Iowa, shall not be grounds for upsetting any action taken. (Ord. S-30424, 1976)