(A) A sexually oriented business shall not be operated or located on any parcel within 1,000 feet of:
(1) Any building which is used primarily for religious worship and related religious activities;
(2) A school, public or private, as defined in § 153.004;
(3) A boundary of any residential zoning district;
(4) A public park, playground or playing field, as defined in § 153.004;
(5) Any public library; or
(6) Any other sexually oriented business.
(B) No such business shall be located on any parcel or operated within 500 feet of any landmark or Historic District.
(C) Such businesses shall only be located in an I-1 Industrial District.
(D) No advertisements, displays or other promotional materials displaying specified sexual activities or specified anatomical areas shall be shown or exhibited so as to be visible to the public from pedestrian sidewalks or walkways, or from other areas public or semi-public.
(E) All building openings, entries, windows and the like for adult uses shall be located, covered or serviced in such a manner as to prevent a view into the interior from any public or semi-public area, sidewalk or street. For new construction, the building shall be oriented so as to minimize any possibility of viewing the interior from public or semi-public areas.
(F) No screens, loudspeakers or sound equipment shall be used for adult motion picture theaters (enclosed or drive-in) that can be seen or discerned by the public from public or semi-public areas.
(G) For the purposes of this section, measurements shall be made in a straight line, without regard to intervening structures or objects, from the nearest portion of the building or structure used as a part of the premises where a sexually oriented business is conducted, to the nearest property line of the premises of a church or school, or to the nearest boundary of an affected public park or residential district.
(H) For the purposes of this section, the distance between any two sexually oriented businesses shall be measured in a straight line, without regard to intervening structures or objects from the closest exterior wall of the structure in which each business is located.
(I) No person shall establish, operate or cause the establishment or operation of any sexually oriented business in violation of the provisions of this section. Nothing in this section shall be construed to prohibit or limit the display, sale or rental of descriptive, printed, film or video material, or any live performance which, taken as a whole, contains serious literary, artistic, political, medical educational or scientific value.
(J) Any sexually oriented business lawfully operating on the effective date of this section that is in violation shall be deemed a non-conforming use. A sexually oriented business lawfully operating as a conforming use is not rendered a non-conforming use by the subsequent location of a church, public or private school, residential district, public park or library within 1,000 feet or a landmark or historic district within 500 feet of the sexually oriented business. When a non-conforming sexually oriented business use of a structure, building or premises is voluntarily discontinued or abandoned for more than six months, the structure, building or premises shall not thereafter be used except in conformity with the regulations of the zoning district in which it is located.
(Prior Code, § 27.05.06) Penalty, see § 153.999