(A) Adult businesses may be established, subject to all other provisions of this subchapter and the zoning code, only in M-1, M-1-L, M-2, C-1, C-2 and I-P(PD) Zones.
(B) Notwithstanding division (A) of this section, no adult business may be established:
(1) Within 1,000 feet of any residential zone, religious institution, hospital, convalescent home or similar facility, youth organization facility, school, public building, public park or recreation area (“protected locations”). Adult businesses are allowed within 1,000 feet of a “protected location” if the two locations are separated by the freeway, unless a pedestrian or vehicular crossing of the freeway is also located within 1,000 feet of the adult business and the “protected location.”
(2) Within 200 feet of another adult business.
(C) Each adult business defined in § 156.781 shall be considered a separate business, whether or not owned or operated by the same persons and more than one adult business shall not be established in the same building, structure or portion thereof or in violation of the criteria contained in divisions (A), (B), and (C) of this section.
(D) Distance between any two adult businesses shall be measured in a straight line, without regard to intervening structures, from the closest exterior wall of each business. Distance between any adult business and any residential zone, religion institution, hospital, convalescent home or similar facility, youth organization facility, school, public building, public park or recreation area, shall be measured in a straight line, without regard to intervening structures, from the closest exterior wall of the adult business to the nearest property line of the residential zone, area or facility listed above.
(E) Notwithstanding any provision of the zoning code to the contrary, none of the locational criteria set forth in this section may be waived, reduced, or modified in any manner by the variance procedures set forth in Ch. 16.220.
(Ord. 987, passed 6-19-95) Penalty, see § 156.999