(a) Findings of Fact. For purposes of this Chapter, the Village Board of the Village of Edgar makes the following findings of fact:
(1) It is a lawful purpose of the Village Board of the Village of Edgar to enact regulatory ordinances under its police powers protecting and promoting the general welfare, orderly conduct, health and safety of its citizens; and
(2) The Village Board of the Village of Edgar believes that it is in the best interests of the health, safety and general welfare of the citizens of the Village to regulate and thereby diminish the dangerous and/or negative secondary effects that accompany adult oriented establishments; and
(3) Such dangerous and/or negative secondary effects associated with adult oriented businesses include, but are not limited to, increased criminal activity of both a sexual and violent nature; lowered property values; urban blight; a loss of pride in a community; and an increase in sexually transmitted diseases; and
(4) The Village Board of the Village of Edgar has knowledge of studies conducted by Phoenix, Arizona; Whittier, California; Adams County, Colorado; Indianapolis, Indiana; New York, New York; New Hanover County, North Carolina; Austin, Texas; Beaumont, Texas; Dallas, Texas; El Paso, Texas; and Newport News, Virginia, that indicate that adult oriented establishments have either a strong or direct correlation to increased crime; and
(5) A land use study conducted by the City of Phoenix, Arizona, which studied the link between adult oriented establishments and their relationship to increased crime found that the number of sex offenses was five hundred and six percent (506%) greater in neighborhoods where adult oriented establishments were located, and which also concluded that the crimes of sexual assault, lewd and lascivious behavior and child molestation were one hundred and thirty-two percent (132%) greater in neighborhoods in which adult oriented establishments were located; and
(6) The Village Board of the Village of Edgar has knowledge of studies conducted by Garden Grove, California; Los Angeles, California; Indianapolis, Indiana; Minneapolis, Minnesota; Las Vegas, Nevada; New York, New York; New Hanover County, North Carolina; Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; Austin, Texas; El Paso, Texas; Newport News, Virginia; and St. Croix County, Wisconsin, that indicate a correlation between the location of adult oriented establishments and decreased property values of the surrounding areas; and
(7) A study surveying one hundred (100) Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, real estate appraisers concluded that a concentration of adult oriented businesses may mean large losses in area property values; and
(8) The Village Board of the Village of Edgar has knowledge of studies conducted by Minneapolis, Minnesota; Elliotsville, New York; Islip, New York; New Hanover County, North Carolina; Amarillo, Texas; and El Paso, Texas, which conclude that when adult oriented establishments are allowed to concentrate in one area the negative secondary effects of adult oriented establishments may be magnified; and
(9) The Elliotsville, New York, Village Board of Trustees found that isolation of adult oriented establishments limits their negative secondary effects; and
(10) A report by the Islip, New York, Department of Planning found that the location of two (2) adult oriented establishments located near each other created a "dead zone" in an otherwise healthy business district; and
(11) A legislative report prepared by the Sexually Oriented Business Revision Committee for the Houston, Texas, City Council concluded that due to criminal activity associated with adult oriented establishments, licenses should be required of all adult oriented establishment employees; and
(12) A report based on a memorandum from the Tuscon Police Department Investigative Services Division to the City Prosecutor conducted by the City of Tuscon, Arizona, dated May I, 1990, concluded that police officers found a wide variety of illegal sexual conduct at all adult oriented establishments and that virtually every establishment had employees arrested for prostitution or obscene sex shows and which found that one of the employees arrested for such acts was a 15 year old girl; and
(13) A legislative report prepared by the Sexually Oriented Business Revision Committee for the Houston, Texas, City Council concluded that the lack of clear lines of view, insufficient lighting and locked rooms decreases the ability of adult oriented establishment owners, managers and employees from monitoring behavior and preventing lewd behavior on the part of customers, and that this is behavior which may lead to unsanitary conditions and the spread of communicable diseases.
(b) Purpose.
(1) The purpose of this Chapter shall be to license and regulate the operations and locations of adult oriented establishments, as defined herein, within the limits of the Village of Edgar. As based upon the following recitation of issues involving such types of businesses, it is deemed to be in the best interests of the health, welfare and safety of the residents of the Village of Edgar to adopt this Chapter, pursuant to the authority vested in the Village under the Wisconsin Statutes.
(2) Based in part upon the foregoing and with the purpose to diminish the negative secondary effects of adult oriented establishments, defined as including, but not limited to, maintenance of property values, protection of the quality of neighborhoods and commercial districts, the quality of life and the health, safety and welfare of residents of the Village of Edgar, of adult oriented establishments, the regulations in this Chapter are adopted.