2020 New York Laws
GCT - General City
Article 5-A - Buildings and Use Districts
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.