759.04 CONDITIONAL USE PERMIT REQUIRED.
(a) No building shall be erected, constructed or developed, and no building or premises shall be reconstructed, remodeled, arranged for use, or used for any adult entertainment business unless authorized by the issuance of a conditional use permit in accordance with the provisions of Title Five of Part Eleven of the City of Dover Codified Ordinances. In addition, any adult entertainment business shall comply with the following conditional use criteria:
(1) Adult entertainment businesses shall comply with the district regulations applicable to all properties in any district in which they are located;
(2) No adult entertainment business shall be permitted in a location which is within 1,500 feet of another adult entertainment business;
(3) No adult entertainment business shall be permitted in a location which is within 750 feet of any church, public or private school, park or playground; and
(4) No adult entertainment business shall be permitted in a location which is within 500 feet of any boundary of any residential district.
(Ord. 15-05. Passed 3-21-05.)
(b) In determining the minimum distance as set forth in subsection (a)(2), above, said distance shall be measured in a straight line, without regard to intervening structures, from the closest exterior structural wall of each such business. The distance between any adult entertainment business and any church, school, park, or playground, as set forth in subsection (a)(3), above, shall be measured in a straight line, without regard to intervening structures, from the closest exterior wall of the adult entertainment business to the closest property line of said church, school, park, or playground. The distance between any adult entertainment business and any residential district as established in subsection (a)(4), above, shall be measured in a straight line, without regard to intervening structures, from the closest exterior structural wall of the adult entertainment business to the closest residential zoning boundary as designated by the City of Dover Zoning Map and Codified Ordinances of the City of Dover.
(Ord. 14-01. Passed 4-16-01; Ord. 59-10. Passed 12-6-10.)