Charter change requires both initiation and voter approval. The General Assembly or a petition process can place an amendment on the ballot, but final authority rests with the electorate.
Because of this structure, any rule, threshold, or governance design written into the charter is relatively difficult to change once adopted. Modifying an adopted provision requires repeating the full process of initiation, ballot placement, and voter approval.
This constraint applies to all governance options and is the reason unresolved design questions in Section 4 represent binding constraints rather than abstract preferences.