(a) No adult entertainment business shall be located in any temporary or portable structure.
(b) Trash dumpsters shall be enclosed by a fence or other permanent structure so as not to be accessible to the public.
(c) No landscaping shall exceed thirty inches in height, except trees with foliage not less than six feet above the ground.
(d) All off-street parking areas and premise entries of the adult entertainment business shall be illuminated from dusk to closing hours of operation with a lighting system that provides an average maintained horizontal illumination of one footcandle of light on parking surfaces and walkways. The lighting shall be shown on the site plan required by Section 5.12.040(b)(5) of this chapter.
(e) The premises within which the adult entertainment business is located shall provide sufficient sound-absorbing insulation so that noise generated inside the premises shall not be audible anywhere on adjacent property, public rights-of-way or within any separate unit within the same building.
(f) All indoor areas of the adult entertainment business within which patrons are permitted, except restrooms, shall be open to view by the management at all times.
(g) All indoor areas of the adult entertainment business shall be illuminated at a minimum of the following footcandles, minimally maintained and evenly distributed at ground level:
Area | Footcandles |
Arcades | 10 |
Bookstores, novelty stores and video stores | 20 |
Theaters and cabarets | 5 (except during performances, at which times lighting shall be at least 1.25 footcandles) |
Motels | 20 (in public areas) |
Modeling studios | 20 |
Sexual encounter center | 20 |
It shall be the duty of the permittee to ensure that the illumination required is maintained at all times that any patron is present in the premises.
(h) The adult entertainment business shall provide and maintain separate restroom facilities for male patrons and employees, and female patrons and employees. Male patrons and employees shall be prohibited from using the restroom(s) for females, and female patrons and employees shall be prohibited from using the restroom(s) for males, except to carry out duties of repair, maintenance and cleaning of the restroom facilities. The restrooms shall be free from adult entertainment material and adult entertainment merchandise. Restrooms shall not contain television monitors or other motion picture or video projection, recording or reproduction equipment. The foregoing provisions of this paragraph shall not apply to an adult entertainment business that: (1) is not required to and does not provide restroom facilities to patrons or the general public; and (2) deals exclusively with sale or rental of adult entertainment material or adult entertainment merchandise that is not used or consumed on the premises.
(i) Access to all indoor areas of the adult entertainment business may not be controlled by any electronic or electric device or by any turnstiles.
(j) All entrances shall be clearly and legibly posted with a notice indicating that minors are prohibited from entering the premises.
(k) Signage shall conform to the standards established for the zone where the adult business is located and shall not depict or describe specified sexual activities or specified anatomical areas.
(l) Adult arcades shall comply with the following additional requirements:
(1) The interior of the premises shall be configured in such a manner that from a manager’s station there is an unobstructed view of every area of the premises to which any patron is permitted access for any purpose, excluding restrooms. If the premises has two or more designated manager’s stations, then the interior shall be configured in such a manner that from at least one of the manager’s stations there is an unobstructed view of each area of the premises to which any patron is permitted access for any purpose, excluding restrooms. The view required in this subparagraph must be in direct line of sight from the designated manager’s station. The manager’s station shall be shown on the site plan required by Section 5.12.040(b) (5) of this chapter.
(2) It shall be the duty of the permittee to ensure that the view area specified in subparagraph (1) above remains unobstructed by any doors, curtains, partitions, walls, merchandise, display racks or other materials.
(3) The permittee shall cause all floor coverings in viewing rooms or booths to be nonporous, easily cleanable surfaces, with no rugs or carpeting.
(4) The permittee shall cause all wall surfaces and ceiling surfaces in viewing rooms or booths to be constructed of, or permanently covered by, nonporous, easily cleanable material. No wood, plywood, composition board or other porous material shall be used within forty-eight inches of the floor.
(5) Signs prohibiting loitering shall be posted in prominent places in and near viewing rooms or booths.
(6) No alteration in the configuration of a manager’s station shall be made without the prior written approval of the director.
(m) Adult cabarets and adult theaters shall comply with the following additional requirements:
(1) A separate entrance/exit for entertainers which is separate from the entrance/exit used by patrons shall be provided.
(2) Separate dressing room facilities for entertainers, exclusively dedicated to the entertainers’ use, shall be provided.
(3) Access between the stage and the entertainers’ dressing room facilities, which is completely separated from the patrons, shall be provided. If such separate access is not physically feasible, a minimum three foot wide walk aisle between the entertainers’ dressing room facilities and the stage, with a railing, fence, or other barrier separating the patrons and the entertainers capable of (and which actually results in) preventing any physical contact between patrons and entertainers shall be provided. Such railing, fence or other barrier shall be at least thirty inches in height.
(Ord. 788 § 3 (part), 1999)