In adopting all of the provisions pertaining to Adult Entertainment Facilities set forth in the Zoning Code, the Council of the Village of Greenhills hereby states as follows:
(a) All such provisions are adopted to protect the public peace, health, safety, and general welfare.
(b) All such provisions are adopted to combat the harmful secondary effects associated with Adult Entertainment Facilities. The Village hereby recognizes and specifically relies upon the studies of the harmful secondary effects of Adult Entertainment Facilities, and all other recitations of those secondary effects, set forth in the United States Supreme Court's decisions in Renton v. Playtime Theatres, 475 U.S. 41 (1986), Young v. American Mini Theatres, Inc., 427 U.S. 50 (1976), Barnes v. Glen Theatre, Inc., 501 U.S. 560 (1991), and all other applicable case law. See City of Erie v. Pap's A.M., ___ U.S. ___ (2000). Based on its review of those decisions and its familiarity with the Village as a whole, Council believes that the harmful secondary effects set forth in the foregoing decisions are relevant to the Adult Entertainment Facilities which the Village regulates in this Zoning Code.
(c) Council finds that the harmful secondary effects associated with Adult Entertainment Facilities are detrimental to the public peace, health, safety, and general welfare.
(d) No such provision is adopted to regulate, limit, or suppress the content or flow of speech or free expression. Any limitation on speech or expression which results from the provisions of this Zoning Code's regulation of Adult Entertainment Facilities is unintended and purely incidental to the Village's attempt to combat the harmful secondary effects of Adult Entertainment Facilities.
(Ord. 2013-04-CD. Passed 4-2-13.)