It is the purpose and intent of this chapter to regulate adult entertainment and/or sexually oriented businesses or clubs to promote the health, safety, morals, and general welfare of the citizens of the city, to preserve property values, and to establish reasonable and uniform regulations to prevent any deleterious location and concentration of adult entertainment and/or sexually oriented businesses or clubs within the city, thereby reducing or eliminating the adverse secondary effects from such adult entertainment and/or sexually oriented businesses or clubs. The provision of this chapter has neither the purpose nor effect of imposing a limitation or restriction on the content of any communicative materials, including sexually oriented materials. Similarly, it is not the intent or effect of this chapter to restrict or deny access by the distributors and exhibitors of adult entertainment and/or sexually oriented entertainment to their intended market. Neither is it the intent nor effect of the ordinance to condone or legitimize the distribution of obscene material.
(Ord. 116-99. Passed 9-20-99)