1. Locations. No person, whether as principal or agent, clerk or employee, either for such person or any other person, or as an officer of any corporation, or otherwise, shall place, maintain, own, or operate any adult bookstore, adult movie theater, adult nightclub, adult motel, or adult business in the following locations.
A. In any residential area in the City, including upon any sidewalk abutting upon such residential area;
B. Within 2,000 feet of any residentially zoned or used property, or any property designated on the City’s Comprehensive Plan as residentially oriented.
C. Within 2,000 feet of any parcel of real property upon which is located any of the following facilities:
(1) An elementary school, junior high school, or senior high school;
(2) A church which conducts religious programs;
(3) Park or recreational facilities operated and approved by the City, County, the Polk County Conservation Board, the State of Iowa, or a not-for-profit institution;
(4) Federal, State, County, City, or special district governmental offices;
(5) Supermarket or convenience market primarily engaged in the sale of food;
(6) Restaurant, fast-food, or food establishment catering to family trade.
D. Within 2,000 feet of any other adult entertainment facility, as defined in Section 125.02.
2. Measurement of Distance. The distance between any two adult entertainment facilities shall be measured in a straight line, without regard to intervening structures from the closest exterior structural wall of each business. The distance between any adult entertainment facilities and any religious institution, school or public park, government office, supermarket, restaurant or any property designated for residential use or used for residential purposes shall be measured in a straight line without regard to intervening structures, from the closest property line of the adult entertainment facilities to the closest property line of the religious institution, school, public park, government office, supermarket, restaurant, or the property designated for residential use or used for residential purposes.
3. Viewing Area.
A. It is unlawful to maintain, operate or manage or permit to be maintained, operated or managed any adult theater or arcade in which the viewing areas are not visible from a continuous main aisle or are obscured by a curtain, door, wall, or other enclosure. For purposes of this section, “viewing area” means the area where a patron or customer would ordinarily be positioned while watching the performance, picture, show, or film.
B. It is unlawful for more than one person at a time to occupy any individually partitioned viewing area or booth.
C. It is unlawful to create, maintain, or permit to be maintained any holes or other openings between any two booths or individual viewing areas for the purpose of providing viewing or physical access between the booth or individual viewing area.
D. The opening to the viewing area shall be from the main aisle.