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• • 14. Communftlot should fdopt regulations which reduce exposure of the community and minors to the blighting appearance of sexually oriented businesses, Including but not limited to regulations of signage and exterior design of such businesses, and should enforce state law requiring sealed wrappers and opaque covers on sexually orlemed material. IMPACTS OF SEXUALLY ORIENTED BUSINESSSS The Working Group reviewed evidence .Vom studies conducted in Minneapolis and St Paul and In other cities throughout the country. These studies, taken together, provide compelling evidence that sexually oriented businesses are with high crime rates and depr^ion of property values. In addition, the Working Group heard tesbmony that the character of a neighborhood can dramatically change when there is a concentration of sexually oriented businesses adjacent to residemial property. Mlnneaoolls Studv ■■■ ^ II I In 1980, on direction from the Minneapolis City Council, the Minneapolis Crime Prevention Center examined the effects of sex-oriented and alcohol-oriented adult entertainment upon property values’ and crime rates. This study used both simple regression and multiple regression statistii^ analysis to evaluate whether there was a causal relationship between these businesses and neighborhood blight The study concluded that there was a dose association between sexually oriented businesses, high crime rates and low housing values in a neighborhood. When the data was reexamined using control variables such as the mean Income in the neighborhood to determine whether the association proved causation. It was undear whether sexually oriented businesses caused a dedine in property values. The Minneapolis study conduded that sexually oriented businesses concentrate In areas whldi are relatively deteriorated and, at most, they may weakly contribute to the continued depression of property values.