13.80.100 Public hearing notice.
(1) In all cases upon acceptance of the application and completion of either a draft environmental impact statement or a threshold determination which would not require preparation of an environmental impact statement, the director shall set a date and time for a public hearing to be held by the Planning Commission to consider the proposed preliminary plat.
(2) Notice of a public hearing shall be given as follows:
(a) By publication of a notice in a newspaper of general circulation in the city not less than ten days prior to the date of the hearing; and
(b) By sending notices by mail not less than ten days prior to the date of the hearing to the property owners within three hundred feet of the exterior boundaries of the property to be subdivided, using for this purpose the name and addresses of the owners as shown in the notarized letter from the title company required in Section 13.80.060. If any of the adjoining property within 300 feet is owned by the applicant, notice shall be given to those property owners adjacent to such property owned by the applicant;
(c) By sending notices by mail not less than ten days prior to the date of hearing to the
(i) Whitman County health department;
(ii) Whitman County commissioners – when the proposed subdivision will adjoin municipal boundaries;
(iii) Washington State Department of Transportation – when the proposed subdivision will be located adjacent to the right-of-way of a state highway or within two miles of the boundary of a state or municipal airport.
(3) Any notice required by this Chapter shall include the time, date, location, and purpose of hearing, the location of the proposed subdivision, and the fact that further information is on file at the public works department. The location of the proposed subdivision may be described in the form of either a vicinity location sketch or a written description in nonlegal language.
(4) Failure of a person to receive a notice shall not invalidate the proceedings in connection with the approval of the preliminary plat.
(5) Notices required herein deposited in the U.S. Mail with first class postage affixed not less than ten days prior to the date of the hearing shall meet the requirements of sending notice. The City may use other forms of delivery in its own discretion provided the notice is delivered to the owner not less than ten days before the hearing date. (Ord. 99-48 §1, 1999; Ord. 80-42 §11, 1980).