(a) Any adult entertainment and/or sexually oriented business or club lawfully operating on the effective date of Chapter 795, or subject amendment thereto, that is in violation of Sections 795.03 and 795.05, shall be deemed an existing, non-conforming use. An existing, non-conforming use is governed by Chapter 1107 of the Planning and Zoning Code of the City of Reynoldsburg. Such existing, nonconforming uses shall not be increased, enlarged, extended or altered except that the use may be changed to a conforming use. If two (2) or more sexually oriented businesses or clubs are within a five hundred (500) feet radius measured from the centerline of the front door of the establishments of one another and otherwise in a permissible location, the adult entertainment and/or sexually oriented business or club which was first established and continually operated at the particular location is the conforming use and the later established business(es) is non-conforming, except as provided in Section 795.03(b).
(b) An adult entertainment and/or sexually oriented business or club lawfully operating as conforming use is not rendered a non-conforming use by the location, subsequent to the grant or renewal of an adult entertainment and/or sexually oriented business or club permit and/or license of any building or use referred to in Section 795.02(j), (k), (l), (m), (n) within five hundred (500) feet measured from the outermost wall of the structure of the sexually oriented business that is nearest to the property line of any building or use referred to in Section 795.02(j), (k), (l), (m), and (n), along the shortest possible course, without regard to intervening structures or objects, regardless of any customary or common route or path of travel. This provision applies only to the renewal of a valid permit and/or license and does not apply when an application for a permit and/or license is submitted after a permit and/or license has expired or has been revoked.
(c) Any establishment subject to the provision of this section shall apply for the permit provided for by Section 795.10 within thirty (30) days of the effective date of this chapter or any amendment subsequent thereto. Any establishment, existing prior to the effective date of this chapter, shall comply with the regulations pertaining to Sections 795.20, 795.22, and 795.32, within sixty (60) days of the effective date of this chapter, and all other applicable permit regulations within thirty (30) days of the effective date of this chapter.
(Ord. 116-99. Passed 9-20-99; Ord. 17-2021. Passed 2-22-21.)