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<br />!... <br /> <br />r <br /> <br />~ <br /> <br />'. <br /> <br />ORDINANCE NO. 607 <br /> <br />AN ORDINANCE PLACING A MORATORIUM ON THE <br />SITING OF ADULT EST ABLISHMENTS WITHIN ANY <br />ZONING DISTRICT OF THE CITY OF NEW BRIGHTON; <br />AND DIRECTING A STUDY TO BE CONDUCTED. <br /> <br />THE CITY OF NEW BRIGHTON DOES ORDAIN: <br /> <br />Section 1. Background. <br /> <br />1.01. The State Attorney General has prepared a report entitled "report of the <br />Attorney General's Working Group on Regulation of Sexually Oriented <br />Businesses", dated June 6, 1989, prepared by Hubert H. Humphrey, III, <br />Attorney General of the State of Minnesota/Olmstead County Planning <br />Department "Adult Entertainment Report" dated March 2, 1988, and "A 40- <br />Acre Study" prepared by the St. Paul Division of Planning in 1987, all of <br />which reports are hereafter collectively referred to as "Reports". The <br />Reports considered evidence from studies conducted in Minneapolis and St. <br />Paul and in other cities throughout the country relating to sexually oriented <br />businesses. <br /> <br />1.02. The Attorney General's Report, based upon the above referenced studies and <br />the testimony presented to it has concluded "that sexually oriented businesses <br />are associated with high crime rates and depression of property values." In <br />addition, the Attorney General's Working Group" ... heard testimony that the <br />character of a neighborhood can dramatically change when there is a <br />concentration of sexually oriented businesses adjacent to residential <br />property." The Reports conclude that: <br /> <br />a) adult uses have an impact on the neighborhoods surrounding <br />them which is distinct from the impact caused by other commercial <br />uses; <br /> <br />b) residential neighborhoods located within close proximity to adult <br />theaters, bookstores and other adult uses experience increase <br />crime rates (sex-related crimes in particular), lowered property <br />values, increased transiency, and decreased stability of <br />ownership; <br /> <br />c) the adverse impacts which adult uses have on surrounding areas <br />diminish as the distance from the adult uses increases; <br /> <br />d) studies of other cities have shown that among the crimes which <br />tend to increase either within or in the near vicinity of adult uses <br />are rapes, prostitution, child molestation, indecent exposure and <br />other lewd and lascivious behavior; <br /> <br />e) the City of Phoenix, Arizona study confirmed that the sex crime <br />rate was on the average 500 percent higher in areas with sexually <br />oriented businesses; <br /> <br />CLL75854 <br />NE136-B <br />