A. No adult entertainment business shall be located in any temporary or portable structure.
B. Trash dumpsters shall be enclosed by a screening enclosure so as not to be accessible to the public.
C. No landscaping shall exceed thirty inches (30") in height, except trees with foliage not less than six feet (6') above the ground.
D. All off street parking areas and premises entries of the adult entertainment business shall be illuminated from dusk to closing hours of operation with a lighting system that provides an average maintained horizontal illumination of one foot-candle of light on parking surfaces and walkways. The lighting shall be shown on the site plan required by subsection 4-7-202B5 of this article.
E. The premises within which the adult entertainment business is located shall provide sufficient sound absorbing insulation so that noise generated inside the premises shall not be audible anywhere on adjacent property, public rights of way or within any separate unit within the same building.
F. All indoor areas of the adult entertainment business within which patrons are permitted, except restrooms, shall be open to view by the management at all times.
G. All indoor areas of the adult entertainment business shall be illuminated at a minimum of the following foot-candles, minimally maintained and evenly distributed at ground level:
Area
| Foot-Candles
| |
Arcades | 10 | |
Bookstores | 20 | |
Modeling studios | 20 | |
Theaters and cabarets | 5 | (except during performances, at which times lighting shall be at least 1.25 foot-candles) |
H. The adult entertainment business shall provide and maintain separate restroom facilities for male patrons and employees, and female patrons and employees. Male patrons and employees shall be prohibited from using the restroom(s) for females, and female patrons and employees shall be prohibited from using the restroom(s) for males, except to carry out duties of repair, maintenance and cleaning of the restroom facilities. The restrooms shall be free from adult entertainment material and adult entertainment merchandise. Restrooms shall not contain television monitors or other motion picture or video projection, recording or reproduction equipment. The foregoing provisions of this subsection shall not apply to an adult entertainment business that: 1) is not required to and does not provide restroom facilities to patrons or the general public; and 2) deals exclusively with sale or rental of adult entertainment material or adult entertainment merchandise that is not used or consumed on the premises.
I. Adult arcades shall comply with the following additional requirements:
1. The interior of the premises shall be configured in such a manner that from a manager's station there is an unobstructed view of every area of the premises to which any patron is permitted access for any purpose, excluding restrooms. If the premises has two (2) or more designated manager's stations, then the interior shall be configured in such a manner that from at least one of the manager's stations there is an unobstructed view of each area of the premises to which any patron is permitted access for any purpose, excluding restrooms. The view required in this subsection I1 must be direct line of sight from the designated manager's station.
2. At all times the view specified in subsection I1 of this section shall remain unobstructed by doors, walls, merchandise, display racks, or other materials.
3. The walls or partitions between viewing rooms or booths shall be maintained in good repair at all times. The walls or partitions between viewing rooms or booths shall not contain holes between any two (2) such rooms or booths such as would allow either: a) viewing from one room or booth into another; or b) physical contact of any kind between the occupants of any two (2) such rooms or booths.
4. Signs prohibiting loitering shall be posted in prominent places in and near viewing rooms and booths.
5. No alteration in the configuration of a manager's station shall be made without the written approval of the director.
J. Adult cabarets and adult theaters shall comply with the following additional requirements:
1. The interior of the premises shall be configured in such a manner that from a manager's station there is an unobstructed view of every area of the premises to which any patron is permitted access for any purpose, excluding restrooms. If the premises has two (2) or more designated manager's stations, then the interior shall be configured in such a manner that from at least one of the manager's stations there is an unobstructed view of each area of the premises to which any patron is permitted access for any purpose, excluding restrooms. The view required in this subsection J1 must be direct line of sight from the designated manager's station.
2. At all times the view specified in subsection J1 of this section shall remain unobstructed by doors, walls, merchandise, display racks, or other materials.
3. No alteration in the configuration of a manager's station shall be made without the written approval of the director.
4. Separate dressing room facilities for entertainers, exclusively dedicated to the entertainers' use, shall be provided.
5. Access between the stage and the entertainers' dressing room facilities, completely separated from the patrons, shall be provided. If such separate access is not physically feasible, a minimum three foot (3') wide walk aisle between the entertainers' dressing room facilities and the stage shall be provided. Such walk aisle shall contain a railing, fence or other barrier separating the patrons and the entertainers. Such railing, fence or other barrier shall be at least thirty inches (30") in height and shall be sufficient to delineate a separation between patrons and entertainers; provided, however, that such railing may contain individual breaks not exceeding five feet (5') in length and not exceeding more than fifty percent (50%) of the length of the walk aisle between the entertainers' dressing room facilities and the stage. (Ord. 98-O-2302, eff. 7-2-1998)