Part 1 — ADULT-ORIENTED BUSINESSES

Adult-oriented businesses are regulated by chapter 124 of this code. The purpose of regulating adult-oriented businesses is to guard against the known adverse effects such businesses can have on the community and the neighborhoods in which they are located, including conditions of blights, crime and perceived and real threats to public health, safety, morals and general welfare. The provisions contained in this subchapter shall be used together with chapter 124 to prevent the concentration of such businesses and to ensure that any such use operates in a manner that minimizes potentially adverse effects on surrounding properties.

(Ord. 1346, passed 5-2-12)

To establish and operate an adult entertainment business or adult entertainment enterprise, a special business permit, obtained pursuant to the requirements of chapter 124 of this code is required. This requirement shall apply to all new and existing adult businesses.

(Ord. 1346, passed 5-2-12)

(A) Allowable zones and distances. No adult-oriented business shall be established, located or operated in any zone in the city other than the I (Industrial) and I-C (Industrial-Commercial) zones and only when within the ascribed distances of the certain specified land uses or zones as set forth here.

(1) No such business shall be established or located within 1,000 feet from any existing legal or legal nonconforming residential zone or use, unless separated from the residential zone or use by a major freeway (Interstate 10 or State Highway 605) or by a right-of-way at least 100 feet in width.

(2) No such business shall be established or located within 1,000 feet from any existing legal or legal nonconforming park, church or school.

(B) Distance measurement. These distances shall be measured as a radius from the primary entrance of the adultoriented business to the property lines of the property so zoned or used for, if on the same property, from the primary entrance of the establishment from which the distance is measured without regard to intervening structures.

(Ord. 1346, passed 5-2-12) Penalty, see § 10.99