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18.52.090 18.52.090 Preexisting Uses -Terms Of Review: Use permits for preexisting uses, including uses in annexed territory regulated by this Chapter shall expire on the date specified by the permit. Preexisting uses shall be reviewed by the Planning Commission at the time of annexation or within five (5) years of the effective date hereof, May 3, 1968. At the time of review of a permit for a preexisting use, the Planning Commis- sion may modify the terms of the per- mit, deleting conditions or making the conditions more restrictive and increas- ing the burden of the permit holder to achieve the purposes of Section 18.52.010 of this Chapter, in accord with the following procedure: A. The permit holder shall be noti- fied of the proposed restrictions. B. A public hearing shall be held in accord with Section 18.12.040 of this Title. C. The Planning Commission shall find that restrictions to be imposed are necessary to protect the public health, safety and welfare. D. A reasonable time period shall be allowed prior to the effective date of new restrictions necessitating amortiza- tion of existing investment. E. A reasonable termination date shall be set for uses for which no expi- ration date was specified in the preex- isting use permit. (Prior Code § 2-7.33(4)) 18.52.100 Minimum Standards: The following standards shall be considered minimum standards. Where appropriate, the City Planning Commis- sion may prescribe higher standards and may regulate additional aspects of rock, sand or gravel extraction or processing as a condition of granting a use permit. A. Landscaped buffers planted and maintained as prescribed in Section 18.84.260 of this Title shall be provid- ed adjoining the boundary of a Q Dis- trict. Where the Q District adjoins or is across the street from an R, O, C-N, C-C, C-R or PUD District, the buffer shall have an average depth of two hundred feet (200') and a minimum depth of one hundred fifty feet (150' ). Where the Q District adjoins or is across a street from a C-S or an I Dis- trict, the buffer shall have a minimum depth of fifty feet (50'). Where the Q District adjoins an A or an S District, a strip having an average depth of two hundred feet (200') and a minimum depth of one hundred fifty feet (150' ) shall be held for use as a buffer, but need not be improved until the Zoning Map is amended to reclassify the prop- erty adjoining or across the street, at which time the buffer shall be improved as required by this Section. The depth of a buffer adjoining or across the street from a P District shall be deter- mined by the Commission. Where the Q District adjoins a freeway, railroad, arroyo or flood-control channel, the minimum depth of the buffer shall be fifty feet (50'). Buffers shall be im- proved and planted sufficiently in ad- vance of nearby extraction operations to allow the trees and other plant materials to attain sufficient height and mass to provide effective buffering. B. Final cuts in any pit or quarry (Pleasanton 5-99) 542