(A) The use of property for an adult business can have potentially harmful secondary effects on surrounding areas, and may have a deleterious effect upon the use and enjoyment of adjoining properties.
(B) Such secondary effects can include, but not be limited to, a tendency to attract an undesirable quantity and quality of transients, to affect property values adversely, to cause an increase in crime, especially prostitution, to contribute to the blighting or down-grading of the surrounding neighborhood/area, and to encourage residents and businesses to move elsewhere.
(C) As such, all adult business, excepting nonconforming uses as described below, must comply with the following location restrictions.
(1) All adult businesses shall be located within a B-3 Highway Business District.
(2) No adult business shall be located within 1,000 feet of any residential zone, single or multiple-family dwelling, church, school, licensed day-care facility, cemetery or park. Said distance shall be measured from property line to property line.
(3) No more than two adult business shall be located within 1,000 feet, (excluding streets, alleys and public ways), of another adult business. Said distance shall be measured from property line to property line.
(4) Adult businesses in violation of divisions (A), (B) and (C) above shall be permitted as nonconforming uses where said adult businesses were established and operated continuously prior to September 20, 1995, provided that no such adult business may be enlarged or increased in size or may be discontinued in use for a period of more than 180 days.
(1993 Code, § 76.03) (Ord. 99-03, passed 2-17-1999)