Unless a proposed amendment, supplement or change has been approved by the Planning and Zoning Commission, or if a protest against such proposed amendment, supplement or change has been filed with the City Secretary, duly signed and acknowledged by the owners of twenty (20) percent or more of the area of the lots included in such a proposed change, or those immediately adjacent in the rear thereof extending two hundred (200) feet therefrom or of those directly opposite thereto extending two hundred (200) feet from the street frontage of such opposite lots, such amendment shall not become effective except by a three-fourths (3/4) vote of the governing body. In computing the percentage of land area under this paragraph f, the area of streets and alleys shall be included.