The Lewistown city commission hereby finds and determines that:
(A) The establishment of adult uses in business districts which are immediately adjacent to and which serve residential neighborhoods has a deleterious effect on both the business and residential segments of the neighborhood, causing or contributing to blight and a downgrading of property values.
(B) The establishment of more than two (2) adult uses within three hundred feet (300') of each other has a deleterious effect on surrounding residential and business areas and the fostering of such businesses within a close proximity tends to create a "skid row" atmosphere.
(C) The location of several adult uses in the same neighborhood tends to attract an undesirable quantity and quality of transients, a circumstance which adversely affects property values, causes an increase in crime and encourages residents and businesses to move elsewhere.
(D) Concern for, and pride in, the orderly planning and development of a neighborhood should be encouraged and fostered in those persons comprising residential and business segments of that neighborhood. (Ord. 1725, 3-16-2009)