It is the purpose and intent of this chapter to regulate sexually oriented businesses to promote the health, safety, morals and general welfare of the citizens of the city and to establish reasonable and uniform regulations to prevent any deleterious location and concentration of sexually oriented businesses within the city, thereby reducing or eliminating the adverse secondary effects from such sexually oriented businesses. The provisions of this chapter have 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 nor effect of this ordinance to restrict or deny access by adults to sexually oriented materials protected by the first Amendment, or to deny access by the distributor and exhibitors of sexually oriented entertainment to their intended market. Neither is it the intended nor effect of the chapter to condone or legitimize the distribution of obscene materials.
(1995 Code, § 5.88.030) (Ord. 01-1872, passed - -2001)