(a) Amendment Initiation. A General Plan Amendment may be initiated by:
1. A Resolution of Intention by the Board of Supervisors or the Planning Commission.
2. An application by a property owner, an interested party having the owner’s authorization, or any member of the general public.
(b) Amendment Frequency. The General Plan shall not be amended more than four times in a calendar year. Each of the four allowed amendments may encompass a variety of different changes to the plan.
(c) Consistency Zoning. When a General Plan Amendment affects the land use designation of specific properties, those properties shall be concurrently rezoned to a zone district(s) as necessary to maintain consistency with the General Plan.
(d) Affordable Housing Requirement. When a General Plan Amendment changes the land use designation of a parcel within the Urban Services Line from a non-residential designation to a residential designation, forty (40) percent of all residential units or parcels resulting from the General Plan Amendment shall be affordable pursuant to Chapter 17.10 of this Code. (Ord. 3323, 11/23/82; 4764 § 2, 6/22/04; 4767 § 1, 8/3/04; Ord. 4783 § 2, 4/26/05; Ord. 4817 § 1, 3/7/06)