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FROM IFRDIO. 3‘95 16:47 ;?T. 16:44 NO. S760044232 F 3 <br />ORDINANCE NO. <br />AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF ORONO, MINNESOTA, <br />amending city CODE CHAPTER_____, <br />BY ADDING A NEW SECTION___RELATING TO ADULT USES. <br />WHEREAS, the City recognizes the sanctity and fundameniaj nature of free speech; <br />and <br />WHEREAS, the City docs not intend to regulate or ban speech based on content; and <br />WHEREAS, the City has reviewed and relies on the State Attorney General's "Rcjwn <br />of the Attorney General ’s Working Group on Regulation of Sexually Oriented Businesses," <br />dated June 6, 1989, which details the effects and impacts of sc.'cually-oriented business; and <br />WHEREAS, the City also has reviewed and relics on the "Task Force Report on <br />Sexually-Oriented Businesses," authored by the City of Minnetonka, St. Louis Park, and <br />Shakopee. Minnesota, which considered relevant studies fruni six cities; and <br />WHEREAS, the City of Orono is similar to the cities in the Attorney General's study <br />and the cities involved m preparing the above Task Force Report, as well as the cities whose <br />studies were considered therein, and the City will experience the same secondary effects ft’om <br />adult businesses as did those cities; and <br />WHEREAS, adult businesses have an impact on the neighborhoods surrounding them <br />which is distinct from the impact caused by other uses; and <br />WHEREAS, residential neighborhoods located within close proximity to adult <br />businesses experience increased crime rates (sex-related crimes, in particular), lowered <br />property values, increased transiency, and decreased stability' or ownership; and <br />WHEREAS, the adverse impacts which adult businesses have on surrounding areas <br />diminish as the distance from the adult use increases; and <br />WHEREAS, studies of other cities have shown that among crimes which tend to <br />increase either within or in the near vicinity of adult businesses are rapes, prostitution, child <br />molestation, indecent exposure, and other lewd and lascivious behavior; and <br />WHEREAS, the control and regulation of adult businesses require intensive police and <br />public health efforts by the City and its contractors and consultants, and that the concentrated <br />use of such services detracts from and reduces the level of services available to the rest of the <br />32S/21ia4647