§ 111.40 FINDINGS.
   (A)   Based on the evidence and reports cited in § 111.02, Council finds:
      (1)   Sexually oriented businesses, as a category of commercial uses, are often associated with a wide variety of adverse secondary effects, including but not limited to personal and property crimes, prostitution, potential spread of disease, lewdness, public indecency, illicit drug use and drug trafficking, negative impacts on surrounding properties, urban blight, litter, and sexual assault and exploitation; and
      (2)   Illegal and unsanitary acts involving nudity, including lewd conduct, masturbation, oral and anal sex, occur at unregulated sexually oriented businesses, including those businesses which provide private or semiprivate rooms, booths, or cubicles for viewing films, videos, or live performances.
   (B)   (1)   Each of the foregoing negative secondary effects constitutes a harm which the village has a substantial government interest in preventing and/or abating.
      (2)   This substantial government interest in preventing secondary effects, which is the village’s rationale for this subchapter, exists independent of any comparative analysis between sexually oriented and non-sexually oriented businesses. Additionally, Council’s interest in regulating sexually oriented businesses extends to preventing future secondary effects of either current or future sexually oriented businesses that may locate in the village. Council finds that the cases and documentation relied on in this subchapter are reasonably believed to be relevant to those secondary effects.
   (C)   The enactment of this subchapter will promote the general welfare, health, morals, and safety of the citizens of the village.
(Ord. 60-2010, passed 3-15-2010)
Cross-reference:
   Case law background for this section, see § 111.02