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Based on the record before the Planning Commission and City Council, the City Council finds that with respect to adult entertainment facilities:

(1) The City Council may rely on the experiences and studies of other cities, counties and organizations in assessing the need for establishing regulations applicable to adult entertainment facilities.

(2) Many cities, counties and organizations have documented the following nonexhaustive list of secondary land use impacts associated with adult entertainment uses and facilities;

(a) Impacts Related to Crime.

(i) Higher incidents of prostitution and lewd acts;

(ii) Increases in crimes against the person such as rape, indecent liberties and exploitation of minors;

(iii) Increase in drug usage and sale of controlled substances;

(iv) Increases in property crimes such as theft and robberies;

(v) Increased demand for police resources, thereby reducing police services to other areas of the City.

(b) Impacts Related to Property Value.

(i) Adult entertainment facilities have a negative impact on property values, especially residential values;

(ii) Adult entertainment facilities can adversely impact business investment in a neighborhood;

(iii) Adult entertainment facilities cause blight and are responsible for the creation of a skid-row effect.

(c) Impacts Related to the Quality of Life/Neighborhood Degradation.

(i) The City’s image can be marred by the location of adult entertainment facilities in it. This then impacts other aspects of the community;

(ii) Residents or shoppers in the City will move or shop elsewhere if adult entertainment facilities are permitted to locate in close proximity to residential uses, churches, parks, schools and other public facilities;

(iii) Adult entertainment facilities attract transients, increase crime and devalue property;

(iv) Patrons of adult entertainment facilities are less likely to uphold or respect community standards;

(v) Effects of blighting from adult entertainment facilities are experienced by both residential and business neighborhoods;

(vi) Location of adult entertainment facilities reduces retail trade to adjoining commercial uses reducing tax revenues to the City;

(vii) Adult entertainment facilities operate late at night creating late night impacts of traffic and noise that are incompatible with residential uses;

(viii) The location of adult entertainment facilities within walking distance of churches or other religious facilities has adverse effects upon the ministry of such facilities and will discourage attendance at such churches.

(d) Impacts Related to Children.

(i) Exposure and visibility of adult entertainment facilities to school-age children is detrimental to the quality of residential life;

(ii) Adult entertainment facilities adversely affect the orientation of a neighborhood;

(iii) Exposure to adult entertainment facilities often create conflicts with the moral and ethical standards parents desire to instill in children;

(iv) The location of adult entertainment facilities on main commercial thoroughfares of the City gives an impression of legitimacy to and causes a loss of sensitivity to the adverse effects of pornography upon children, established family relations, respect for marital relationship and the concept of nonaggressive consensual sexual relations.

(e) Additional Adverse Secondary Impacts.

(i) Adult entertainment facilities can have a negative impact on public health due to the danger of sexually transmitted diseases;

(ii) Adult entertainment facilities in close proximity to residential uses, churches, parks, schools and other public facilities will cause a degradation of the community standard of morality, because pornographic material has a degrading effect upon the relationship between spouses;

(iii) Adult entertainment facilities are inconsistent uses in or near residential neighborhoods because of the negative impacts of increased crime, lowered property values, exposure to children, and the degrading and blighting influence on a neighborhood which lowers the quality of life for residents. [Ord. 3262 § 3, 1997; Code 1970 § 5.27.030.]