15.41.050        Sexually oriented business regulations.

 

The following regulations shall apply to sexually oriented businesses:

    A.    Sexually oriented businesses shall be located a minimum of five hundred feet from any:

1.         Area zoned for residential use;

2.         Single-family or multifamily dwelling;

3.         Church, public park or library;

4.         State-licensed day care facility;

5.         School or educational facility serving persons under eighteen years of age; or

6.         Any other sexually oriented business.

B.         The distance between any two sexually oriented businesses shall be measured in a straight line, without regard to intervening structures, from the closest exterior structural wall of each business. Distance between any sexually oriented business and any church, school, public park, dwelling or residential district shall be measured in a straight line, without regard to intervening structures, from the nearest portion of the structure used for the sexually oriented business to the nearest property line of the church, school or dwelling, or the nearest boundary of the public park or residential district.

C.        Sexually explicit advertisements or other promotional displays for sexually oriented businesses that are harmful to minors shall not be visible to minors from pedestrian ways, walkways or other public areas.

(Ord 2005-31; Ord. 1999-13 § 1 (part))