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1. Legal description; boundary survey. The application shall describe by legal description and any street address, where possible, the property to be affected by the proposed change, setting forth the present zoning applicable thereto and specifying the district, zone or use requested by the applicant. The application shall also include a copy of the deed and at least one other conveying instrument indicating present legal and/or equitable ownership together with notarized authorization from the owner of the subject property if the applicant is not the owner. The application shall also include a boundary survey, sealed by a registered land surveyor, of the property proposed to be rezoned. 2. Statement of verification. All such applications or petitions shall include a verified statement showing each and every individual person having legal and/or equitable ownership interest in the property upon which the application for rezoning is sought. 3. Concurrency certificate. Each application shall include a valid conditional, or initial concurrency certificate or evidence of a concurrency certificate application. 4. Fees. Each application shall include a publication and application fee for each requested change; provided, however, that as many lots or parcels of property as the applicant may desire may be included in a single petition if they constitute one contiguous area. Such fee shall be established by the board of county commissioners. 5. Application time limitations. A rezoning or land development regulation text amendment application shall be considered active for a period of one year after it is submitted to the community development department. If the application is not complete or if the board of county commissioners does not hold a public hearing on the application because of delays by the applicant, the application shall be terminated one year after the submittal date. (b) Staff review. The community development department shall have twenty (20) working days from the date the completed application and required fees are submitted to review and comment upon the application. The community development department shall then place the completed application on the agenda of a regularly scheduled county planning and zoning commission meeting; provided, however, the following notice and publication requirements are met prior to the public hearing before the county planning and zoning commission. 1. Published notice requirement. The community development department shall publish the material contents of the application, together with a map indicating the area proposed to be rezoned, (map required only for rezoning requests and land development regulations amendment requests where state regulations require the publishing of a map), at least ten (10) days prior to the county planning and zoning commission's public hearing on the application, unless Florida Statutes mandate different notice requirements. 2. Mailed notice; posted notice. Additionally, the community development department shall send by regular mail a written courtesy notice to all owners of property within three hundred (300) feet of the outer limits of the area described in the petition requesting a change, advising all such owners as shown upon the last prepared and completed tax assessment roll of the county, in simple terms, the proposed change and the time and place of the public hearing. In the event that more than ten (10) lots or parcels are proposed for rezoning, notification shall be by published notice only. For rezoning requests the community development department shall erect and conspicuously place upon the subject property at least one notice which shall contain the following information: a. Map of property which is the subject of the rezoning petition; b. Present zoning and requested rezoning classification; and c. Dates of scheduled hearings. 3. Failure to provide notice. The provisions hereof for mailing notice are directory only and the failure to mail such notices shall not affect any change or amendment of said land development regulations.. Moreover, regarding rezoning requests, failure to maintain a conspicuous notice on the property shall not affect said requests. 239