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• Adult Entertainment 1987: A 40 Acre Stud prepared by the <br />• Division of Planning, Department of Economic Development and <br />Planning, City of St. Paul, 1987 <br />• Adult Entertainment 1988: A Su lement to 1987 Zonin Stud <br />areaared by the Division of Planning, Department of Planning and <br />Economic Development, City of St. Paul <br />• Adult Entertainment Businesses in Indiana olis: An Anal sis <br />Department of Metropolitan Development, Division of Planning, <br />February, 1984 <br />• Relation of Criminal Activit and Adult Businesses prepared by the <br />Planning Department, City of Phoenix, May 1979 <br />• Regulating Sex Businesses, prepared by William Toner, <br />Report No. 327 Planning Advisory Service, 1977 <br />• The Imoact of Pornograghv• A Decade of Literature prepared by H. B. <br />McKay and D. J. Dolff for the Department of Justice, Canada, 1984 <br />• The Citv of Ramsev Adult Uses, Planning Report, prepared by <br />Northwest Associated Consultants, Inc., September, 1990 <br />• SUMMARY OF KEY FINDINGS FROM T <br />HESE STUDIES <br />Study 1 Ci~Lof Phoenix Ari7nna (May 1979) <br />The Phoenix, Arizona study entitled "Relation of Criminal Activity and Adult <br />Businesses" determined that arrests for sexual crimes and locations of adult uses <br />were directly related. The research was designed around three study areas with <br />adult uses and three control areas without adult uses. In brief, the study concluded <br />than, on average, in the three study areas with adult uses property crimes were 43 <br />per cent higher, violent crimes were four percent higher and sex crimes were over <br />500 per cent higher that in the control areas without adult uses. <br />Stu--- d~ 2 Cit~of Indianapolis Indiana ~ <br />1984) <br />A study of "Adult Entertainment Businesses in Indianapolis" prepared by the City <br />of Indianapolis in 1984 analyzed crime data in a study area with at least one adult <br />use and a control area without an adult use. The research also included a national <br />survey of appraisers to determine the impact of adult uses on adjacent and nearby <br />property values. In sum, the crime analysis found that major crimes occurred in <br />the study area with the adult use(s) at a rate 23% higher than in the six similar <br />2 <br />