(A) The City Council deems it necessary to provide for the special and express regulation of businesses or commercial enterprises which operate as adult body painting studios, adult bookstores, adult cabarets, adult companionship establishments, adult hotels or motels, adult massage parlors or health clubs, adult mini-motion picture theaters, adult modeling studios, adult motion picture arcades or theaters, adult novelty businesses, adult saunas and similar adult-oriented services operating under different names in order to protect the public health, safety and welfare, and to guard against the inception and transmission of disease. The City Council further finds that the commercial enterprises such as the types described above and all other similar establishments whose services include sessions offered to adults conducted in private by members of the same or opposite sex, and employing personnel with no specialized training, are susceptible to operation in a manner contravening, subverting or endangering the morals of the community by being the site of acts of prostitution, illicit sex and occasions of violent crimes, and thus requiring close inspection, licensing and regulation.
(B) The City Council also finds that control and regulation of commercial establishments of these types, in view of the abuses often perpetrated, require intensive efforts by the Police Department and other departments of the city. As a consequence, the concentrated use of city services in control detracts from and reduces the level of service available to the rest of the community and thereby diminishes the ability of the city to promote the general health, welfare, morals and safety of the community. In consideration for the necessity on the part of the city to provide numerous services to all segments of the community without a concentration of public services in one area working to the detriment of the members of the general public, it is hereby decided that adult use principal should be limited to the B-2 District as a conditional use and that adult use accessory should be limited to the B-2 Service Business District and B-3 General Business District as a permitted use and should require the issuance of licenses.
(2002 Code, § 4.32) (Ord. 2, Fifth Series, passed 3-18-1996; Ord. 95, Seventh Series, passed 1-6-2020)