12-491: ADULT ENTERTAINMENT USES:
   A.   Intent:
      1.   To provide appropriate locations for adult entertainment uses that minimize impacts to the character of residential neighborhoods.
      2.   To minimize exposure of such facilities to minors.
      3.   To ensure that such uses do not become incompatible land uses and further, will not contribute to the blighting or downgrading of zoning districts in which they are permitted, thereby adversely affecting property values and deterring or interfering with the development and operation of other businesses within the county.
      4.   To provide measures to minimize the incidents of crime associated with such uses.
   B.   Standards:
      1.   Advertisements, displays or other promotional materials depicting or describing "specified anatomical areas" or "specified sexual activities", or displaying instruments, devices or paraphernalia which are designed for use in connection with "specified sexual activities" shall not be shown or exhibited so as to be visible from other areas open to the general public.
      2.   All building openings, entries and windows for an adult entertainment business shall be located, covered or screened in such a manner as to prevent a view into the interior of an adult entertainment business from any area open to the general public.
      3.   All entrances to an adult entertainment business shall be clearly and legibly posted by a notice indicating that minors are prohibited from entering the premises.
      4.   No loudspeakers or sound equipment shall be used by an adult entertainment business for the amplification of sound to a level discernible by the public beyond the walls of the building in which the adult entertainment business is conducted.
      5.   All off street parking areas, walkways and building entries serving the adult entertainment business shall be illuminated during all business hours with a lighting system designed to provide a minimum maintained horizontal illumination of greater than one foot-candle of light on the parking surface and/or walkway. This required lighting level is established in order to provide sufficient illumination of the parking areas and walkways serving the adult entertainment business for personal safety of its patrons.
      6.   All exterior areas of adult entertainment businesses, including buildings, landscaping and parking areas, shall be kept free of litter.
      7.   No adult entertainment use shall be permitted within five hundred feet (500') of the center of any of its public entrances to the center of any public entrance to any establishment serving or selling alcoholic beverages, and vice versa, or within two thousand five hundred feet (2,500') of the center of any public entrance to a school, library, church, park, playground, hospital, medical clinic, nursing home or daycare facility. The distance shall be measured along the shortest route along the street or highway between the points where lines perpendicular to the centers of the public entrances intersect with the street or highway. (Ord. 501, 11-18-2008)