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Article XXVI — ADULT-ORIENTED BUSINESSES

§ 25.241 INTENT.

Red Bluff Zoning Code · 2026-07 edition · updated 2026-07-25 · Red Bluff

(A) (1) The intent of this article is to regulate businesses which, unless closely regulated, tend to have serious negative secondary effects on the community, which effects include, but are not limited to the following: the depreciation of property values and increase in vacancies in residential and commercial areas in the vicinity of adult businesses; interference with the residential property owners’ enjoyment of their property, when such property is located in the vicinity of adult businesses as a result of increases in crime, litter, noise and vandalism; and blighting conditions such as low level maintenance of commercial premises and parking lots which thereby have a deleterious effect upon adjacent areas.

(2) Special regulation of these businesses is necessary to prevent these adverse secondary effects and the blighting or degradation of the neighborhoods in the vicinity of adult-oriented businesses.

(B) It is neither the intent nor the effect of this article to impose limitations or restrictions on the content of any communicative material. Similarly, it is neither the intent nor the effect of this article to restrict or deny access by adults to adult-oriented materials or to deny access to the distributors or exhibitors of adult-oriented businesses to their intended market.

(C) Nothing in this chapter is intended to authorize, legalize or permit the establishment, operation or maintenance of any business, building or use which violates any city ordinance or any statute of the state regarding public nuisances, unlawful or indecent exposure, sexual conduct, lewdness or obscene or harmful matter or the exhibition or public display thereof.

(`61 Code, § 25.26.01) (Ord. 915, passed 6-20-2000)

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  1. Article I — ADOPTION OF PLAN
  2. Article II — DESIGNATION OF DISTRICTS
  3. Article III — ESTABLISHMENT OF DISTRICTS
  4. Article IV — AMENDMENT PROCESS
  5. Article V — PROCEDURES FOR NAMING AND RENAMING STREETS,
  6. Article VI — RESIDENTIAL DISTRICTS
  7. Article VII — RESERVED
  8. Article VIII — COMMERCIAL DISTRICTS
  9. Article IX — INDUSTRIAL DISTRICTS
  10. Article X — PUBLIC DISTRICTS
  11. Article XI — COMBINING DISTRICTS
  12. Article XII — USE PERMITS
  13. Article XIII — ADMINISTRATIVE USE PERMITS
  14. Article XIV — PLANNED DEVELOPMENT USE PERMITS
  15. Article XV — VARIANCES
  16. Article XVI — SETBACK ADJUSTMENTS
  17. Article XVII — NONCONFORMING USES
  18. Article XVIII — RESERVED
  19. Article XIX — GENERAL PROVISIONS
  20. Article XX — CERTIFICATES OF OCCUPANCY
  21. Article XXI — RECREATIONAL VEHICLES AND COMMERCIAL COACHES
  22. Article XXII — PROHIBITED USES
  23. Article XXIII — OFF-STREET PARKING AND LOADING
  24. Article XXIV — ENFORCEMENT AND PENALTIES
  25. Article XXV — DEFINITIONS
  26. ▸ Article XXVI — ADULT-ORIENTED BUSINESSES
    Overview
    1. § 25.241 INTENT.
    2. § 25.242 DEFINITIONS.
    3. § 25.243 ADULT-ORIENTED BUSINESSES.
  27. Article XXVII — DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT PROCEDURES

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