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“adding obscenity-law violations to the list of RICO predicate crimes was not a mere <br />ruse to sidestep the Rrst Amendment" Id. Without the relationship to proceeds of <br />crime, a remedy which closed a facility for obscenity violations would be far less likely <br />to withstand constitutional scrutiny. <br />RECOMMENDATIONS <br />1. Prosecutors should use the public nuisance statute to enjoin <br />operations of sexually oriented businesses which repeatedly violate <br />laws pertaining to prostitution, gambling or operating a disorderly <br />house. <br />*-• •• <br />•• •• •• «. <br />III. ZONING <br />• •• • ♦‘V: <br />Zoning ordinances can be adopted to regulate the location of sexually oriented <br />businesses without vidating the First Amendment Such ordinances can be designed <br />to disperse or concentrate sexually oriented business, to keep thdh ^ designated <br />distances from specific buildings or areas, such as churches, schools and mldentlal <br />neighborhoods or to restrict buildings to a single sexually oriented usage. Because <br />zoning is an important regulatory tool when property enacted, the Working Group <br />believes a careful explanation of the law and a review of potential problems in drafting <br />zoning ordinances may be helplUl to communities cortsidering zoning to regulate <br />sexually oriented businesses. <br />^3 <br />•• <br />-30-