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B. Twenty four (24) hour uses as defined by Section 1002.02 of this title shall be permitted uses in the S-C Shopping Center District but uses within three hundred feet (300') of a residential district shall be subject to the additional performance standards as indicated below. A significant change in the regular hours of operation of any existing use to twenty four (24) hours located within three hundred feet (300') of a residential district constitutes an expansion and intensification of the use and shall require modification of the plan and improvements to the site in compliance with the standards specified below for twenty four (24) hour uses. (Ord. 1234, 12- 15-1999, eff. 1-1-2000) 1006.05: MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS: In addition to the design standard regulations specified in Chapter 1010 and requirements specified in Section 1005.01 of this title, the following minimum requirements as set forth in this chapter shall apply to all buildings that may be erected, converted or structurally altered in shopping center districts: A. Dimensional Requirements: 1. Independent outlying lots within an S-C zone shall comply with the City approved Shopping Center Master Plan and/or Planned Unit Development. If neither exists, the B-3 zoning district requirements for freestanding buildings shall apply. If the owner or developer wishes to vary from the dimensional requirements herein, the developer or owner may submit a setback plan wherein design conditions or other considerations indicate an amendment to the master plan or Planned Unit Development. The city, in its sole discretion, may determine whether the amendment to the master plan or planned unit development is appropriate. Consideration of such amendments shall be as stipulated in Section 1008 and the city council may impose such conditions thereto as may be appropriate. 2. Buffer Zone: Where a shopping center district abuts a residence district, any new development shall include in the required setback a buffer zone a minimum of forty feet (40') in width abutting the residential district. This protective strip shall contain no structures, shall not be used for parking, off-street loading or storage, and shall be landscaped. The landscape treatment shall include the seeding of grass or sodding of the whole of the buffer strip, the planting of shrubbery and trees and maintaining of same, a compact screen wall, fence, berm, landscaping, or combination thereof, which limit shall be not less than seventy five percent (75%) opaque year-round to a minimum height of6 feet above the parking lot curb. The landscape treatment must be approved by the city and shall be in harmony with a residential neighborhood and provide sufficient screening of the shopping center operations. The landscape screening or fence shall be no less than six feet (6') at the time of installation. Where a berm, wall, fence or combination thereof is required for screening purposes for a commercial use adjacent to a residential use, such berm, wall, fence or combination thereof shall be set back from the residential district boundary at least three (3) times its height, and landscaped with trees, shrubs, perennials and sod or seed to screen fifty percent (50%) ofthe surface of the wall or fence at maturity of the plant materials year-round. 3. Special Requirements When Rear Yard Includes Loading Area: Where a rear yard of a shopping center district includes the loading and servicing area of a shopping center building 2