(a) A sexually oriented business may be located in accordance with the following restrictions:
(1) A sexually oriented business may only be located in the Retail Business District. (Ord. 22-2005. Passed 9-14-05.)
(2) No such business shall be located on any lot within 1,000 feet of any residentially-zoned district.
(3) No such business shall be located on any lot within 1,000 feet of any public library, private or public elementary or secondary school, public park or place of worship, and
(4) No such businesses shall be located on any lot within 1,000 feet of another sexually oriented business.
(b) For the purposes of subsection (a), measurement shall be made in a straight line, without regard to intervening structures or objects, from the nearest portion of the building or structure used as a part of the premises where a sexually oriented business is conducted, to the nearest property line of the premises of a place of worship or public or private elementary of secondary school, or to the nearest boundary of an affected public park, residential district or residential lot.
(c) For the purpose of subsection (a), the distance between any two sexually oriented businesses shall be measured in a straight line, without regard to intervening structures or objects, from the closest exterior wall of the structure in which each business is located.
(d) A sexually oriented business lawfully operating as a conforming use is not rendered a nonconforming use by the subsequent location of a place of worship, public or private elementary of secondary school, public park, residential district, residential lot or library within 1,000 feet of the sexually oriented business.
(e) No person shall establish, operate or cause the establishment or operation of any sexually oriented business in violation of the provisions of this chapter, any other provisions of the Codified Ordinances, or State statute or regulation. Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to prohibit or limit the display, sale or rental of descriptive, printed, film or video material or any live performance which, taken as a whole, contains serious literary, artistic, political, medical, educational or scientific value.
(Ord. 10-1998. Passed 6-10-98.)