The following development standards and requirements shall apply to adult-entertainment businesses, including those providing live entertainment depicting or displaying specified anatomical areas or involving specified sexual activities:
A. Maximum occupancy load, fire exits, aisles and fire equipment shall be regulated, designed and provided in accordance with the fire department and building regulations and standards adopted by the city.
B. No adult-entertainment business shall be operated in any manner that permits the observation of any material or activities depicting, displaying, describing or relating to specified sexual activities or specified anatomical areas from any public way or from any location outside the building or area of such establishment. This provision shall apply to any display, decoration, sign, show window or other opening. No exterior door or window on the premises shall be propped or kept open at any time while the business is open, and any exterior windows shall be covered with opaque covering at all times.
C. All off-street parking areas and premises entries of the adult-entertainment business shall be illuminated from dusk to closing hours of operation with a lighting system that provides an average maintained horizontal illumination of one foot candle of light on the parking surface and/or walkways. The required lighting level is established in order to provide sufficient illumination of the parking areas and walkways serving the sexually-oriented business for the personal safety of patrons and employees and to reduce the incidence of vandalism and criminal conduct. The lighting shall be shown on the required sketch or diagram of the premises.
D. The premises within which the adult-entertainment business is located shall provide sufficient sound-absorbing insulation so that noise generated inside the premises shall not be audible anywhere on any adjacent property or public right-of-way or within any other building or other separate unit within the same building.
E. The building entrance to an adult-entertainment business shall be clearly and legibly posted with a notice indicating that persons under eighteen (18) years of age are precluded from entering the premises. Said notice shall be constructed and posted to the satisfaction of the city manager.
F. All indoor areas of the adult-entertainment business within which patrons are permitted, except restrooms, shall be open to view by the management at all times.
G. Any adult-entertainment business that is an "adult arcade" shall comply with the requirements of Chapter 5.96 of the this code, as it currently exists or as it may be amended from time to time.
H. All interior areas of an adult-entertainment business other than an adult arcade shall be illuminated at a minimum of the following foot-candles, minimally maintained and evenly distributed at ground level:
Area | Foot-Candles |
Bookstores and other retail establishments | 20 |
Theaters and cabarets | 5 (except during performances) |
Motels/Hotels | 20 (in public areas) |
Modeling studios | 20 |
I. The adult-entertainment business shall provide and maintain a male restroom facility to be used by male patrons, employees and adult performers, and a female restroom facility to be used by female patrons, employees and adult performers. Male patrons, employees and adult performers shall be prohibited from using the restroom(s) for females and female patrons, employees and adult performers shall be prohibited from using the restroom(s) for males, except to carry out duties of repair, maintenance and cleaning of the restroom facilities. The restrooms shall be free from any adult products. Restrooms shall not contain television monitors or other motion picture or video projection, recording or reproduction equipment. The foregoing provisions of this paragraph shall not apply to an adult-entertainment business that deals exclusively with sale or rental of adult products that are not used or consumed on the premises, such as an adult bookstore, adult novelty store, or adult video store, and that does not provide restroom facilities for its patrons or the general public. (Ord. 2001-040 § 2)