City of Springfield v. Goff

ROBERTSON, Judge.

Section 89.060, RSMo 1994, permits thirty percent of the landowners affected by a zoning change to file a petition protesting the change to the legislative body of a municipality. In that event, the zoning ordinance does not take effect unless two-thirds of the members of the municipality’s legislative body vote in favor of the change. The City of Springfield, Missouri, a charter city, adopted charter section 11.18. The charter provision recognizes as valid a protest petition signed by ten percent of the affected landowners and requires that three-quarters of the members of…