(a) Subject to the regulations of Chapter 755 of the Business Regulation Code, the General Offenses Code, other provisions of the Zoning Code, and state law or regulation, a sexually oriented business may be located only in accordance with the following restrictions:
(1) A sexually oriented business may only be located as a conditional use in a C-3 District.
(2) No such business shall be located on any lot within 500 feet of any public library, private or public elementary or secondary school, or place of worship; and
(3) No such business shall be located on any lot within 1,000 feet of another sexually oriented business.
(b) For the purposes of subsection (a) hereof, 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, public library or public or private elementary or secondary school.
(c) For the purposes of subsection (a) hereof, 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 conditional use permit for a sexually oriented business shall not be rendered invalid by the subsequent location of a place of worship, public or private elementary or secondary school, public park or public library within 1,000 feet of the sexually oriented business.
(e) No person shall establish, operator or cause the establishment or operation of any sexually oriented business in violation of the provisions of this Chapter and Part Seven, Business Regulation Code, and any other provisions of the Codified Ordinances and state statute or regulation.
(f) Nothing in this section 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. 025-2023. Passed 6-5-23.)