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<br />WHEREAS, the special regulation of Adult Entertainment <br />Establishments is necessary to ensure that their adverse <br />seeondary effects will not contribute to an increase in <br />the crime rates or the blighting or downgrading of the <br />areas in which they are located or surrounding areas. <br />The need for the special regulation is based on the <br />recognition that Adult Entertainment Establishments have <br />serious objectionable operational characteristics, <br />particularly when several of them are concentrated under <br />certain circumstances or located in direct proximity with <br />sensitive uses such as residential zones and uses, parks, <br />schools, churches, or day care centers, thereby having a <br />deleterious effect upon the adjacent areas; and <br /> <br />WHEREAS, it is the purpose and intent of these special regulations <br />to prevent the concentration or location of Adult <br />Entertainment Establishments in a manner that would <br />create such adverse secondary effects. Thus, in order to <br />protect and preserve the public health, safety, and <br />welfare of the citizenry, especially including minors, <br />the special regulation of the time, place, and manner of <br />the location and operation of Adult Entertainment <br />Establishments is necessary; and <br /> <br />WHEREAS, the protection and preservation of the public health, <br />safety, and welfare require that certain distances be <br />maintained between Adult Businesses and residential uses <br />and zones, churches, schools, day care centers, parks, <br />and other Adult Entertainment Establishments; and <br /> <br />WHEREAS, the need to regulate the proximity of Adult Entertainment <br />Establishments to sensitive land uses such as <br />residential, religious, educational, recreational, and <br />other Adult Entertainment Establishments is documented in <br />studies conducted by other jurisdictions as stated above; <br />and <br /> <br />WHEREAS, the report of the state of Minnesota Attorney General's <br />working Group on the regulation of sexually oriented <br />businesses dated June 6, 1986, indicates that: <br /> <br />Community impacts of sexually <br />oriented businesses are primarily a <br />function of two variables, proximity <br />to residential areas and <br />concentration. Property values are <br />directly affected within a small <br />radius, typically one block, of the <br />location of a sexually oriented <br />business. Concentration may <br />compound depression of property <br />values and may lead to an increase <br /> <br />2 <br />