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This chapter is not exclusive. The council shall have the power to provide other procedures or to follow procedures now or hereafter provided by general law. The procedures and powers specified in this chapter are alternative. When proceeding under this chapter, its provisions only need be followed. The provisions of this chapter shall be controlling to the extent that they are in conflict with any of the provisions of any general law or act, except as expressly otherwise provided in this chapter.
(Ord. 229 (part), 1976).