(A) Purpose.
(1) The purpose of this subchapter is to regulate adult businesses in order to promote the health, safety and general welfare of the citizens of the village and to establish reasonable and uniform regulations to prevent the deleterious secondary effects of adult uses within the village.
(2) The provisions of this subchapter have neither the purpose nor effect of imposing a limitation or restriction on the content of, or reasonable access to, any communicative materials, including adult-oriented materials.
(3) Similarly, it is neither the intent nor effect of this subchapter to restrict or deny access by adults to adult-oriented materials protected by the First Amendment to the United States Constitution or Art. I, § 4, of the State Constitution, or to deny access by the distributors and exhibitors of adult- oriented entertainment to their intended market.
(4) Neither is it the intent, nor effect, of this chapter to condone or legitimize the distribution of obscene material.
(B) Findings.
(1) Adult and adult-oriented businesses, as defined herein, should be regulated.
(2) They should be segregated from one another and from houses of worship, schools, parks and residential neighborhoods to protect the public health, welfare and safety because, inter alia, adult-oriented businesses, as a category of commercial uses, are associated with a wide variety of adverse secondary effects, including, but not limited to, personal and property crimes, illicit and unsanitary sexual activity, illicit drug use, decreased desirability of and negative impacts on the use of surrounding properties, blight, litter and sexual assault and exploitation.
(3) The village has a substantial government interest in preventing each of the aforementioned adverse effects.
(Prior Code, § 20-1601) (Ord. 1494, passed 8-7-2007; Ord. 1699, passed 3-17-2014)