(A) The township hereby adopts and incorporates herein its findings and record related to the adverse secondary effects of adult entertainment businesses, as detailed herein.
(B) (1) The Township Board also relies upon findings concerning secondary effects contained in additional reports, as well as in further judicial opinions, including those upholding regulations of nudity and the time, place and manner of operation of adult entertainment businesses in finding that:
(a) Adult entertainment businesses, as a category of commercial uses, are often associated with a wide variety of adverse secondary effects including, but not limited to, personal and property crimes, prostitution, potential spread of disease, lewdness, public indecency, illicit drug use and drug trafficking, negative impacts on surrounding properties, urban blight, litter and sexual assault and exploitation; and
(b) Illegal and unsanitary acts involving nudity, including lewd conduct, masturbation, oral and anal sex, occur at unregulated adult entertainment businesses, including those businesses which provide private or semi-private rooms, booths or cubicles for viewing films, videos or live performances.
(2) Each of the foregoing negative secondary effects constitutes a harm which the township has a substantial government interest in preventing and/or abating. This substantial government interest in preventing secondary effects, which is the township’s rationale for this chapter, exists independent of any comparative analysis between adult entertainment businesses and non-sexually oriented businesses. Additionally, the township’s interest in regulating adult entertainment businesses extends to prevent future secondary effects of either current or future adult entertainment businesses that may locate in the township. The township finds that the cases and documentation relied on in this chapter are reasonably believed to be relevant to said secondary effects.
(Prior Code, Ch. XXXV, § 1) (Ord. 2011-8, passed 5-9-2011)