(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 city 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 Sheriff's Department and other departments of the city. As a consequence, the concentrated use of city services in such control detracts from and reduces the level of service available to the rest of the city and thereby diminishes the ability of the city to promote the general health, welfare, morals, and safety of the city. In consideration for the necessity on the part of the city to provide numerous services to all segments of the city without a concentration of public services in 1 area working to the detriment of the members of the general public, it is hereby decided that the above described uses shall be limited to areas within the RB Zoning District located no less than 1,000 feet from churches, schools, licensed day cares, parks, and playgrounds as a conditional use requiring the issuance of a conditional use permit by the City Council and the appropriate licenses as described herein.
(Ord. 7510, passed 6-19-2007)