The intent of this section is to regulate businesses which, unless closely regulated, tend to have serious secondary effects on the community, which effects include, but are not limited to, the following: depreciation of property values and increase in vacancies in residential and commercial areas in the vicinity of sex-oriented businesses; interference with residential property owners' enjoyment of their property when such property is located in the vicinity of sex-oriented businesses, as a result of increases in crime, litter, noise and vandalism; higher crime rates in the vicinity of sex-oriented businesses; and blighting conditions, such as low-level maintenance of commercial premises and parking lots, which thereby have a deleterious effect upon adjacent areas. Special regulation of these businesses is necessary to prevent these adverse effects, and the blighting or degradation of the neighborhoods in the vicinity of the sex-oriented businesses.
It is neither the intent nor the effect of this chapter to impose limitations or restrictions on the content of any communicative material. Similarly, it is neither the intent nor the effect of this chapter to restrict or deny access by adults to sex-oriented materials, or to deny access by the distributors or exhibitors of sex-oriented businesses to their intended market.
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 of California regarding public nuisances, unlawful or indecent exposure, sexual conduct, lewdness or obscene or harmful matter or the exhibition or public display thereof. (Ord. 5920 § 1 (part); June 8, 2004.)