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PROPOSED FINDINGS • WHEREAS, the aforementioned reports and studies, reviewed by the staff and on file at city hall, document negative secondary impacts from adult uses; NOW, THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the City Council of Falcon Heights finds that: 1. That it is the City of Falcon Heights responsibility to protect the health, safety and welfare of the citizens of Falcon Heights. 2. That adult uses create negative secondary impacts in a community, including increased crime, increased harassment of neighborhood residents, increased health risks, diminished property values, and general neighborhood blight. 3. That areas within close walking distance of residential dwellings and other community commercial uses should be free of adult business uses. 4. That areas where children could be expected to walk, patronize or recreate should be free of certain adult business uses. • 5. That the image of the City of Falcon Heights as a pleasant and attractive and safe place to reside will be adversely affected by the presence of adult business uses in close proximity to its residential neighborhoods. 6. That the negative secondary impacts from adult business uses can extend for at least three blocks (or 1,800 feet) and they, therefore, cannot be ameliorated in the City of Falcon Heights because of its unique circumstances including its commercial districts' proximity to residential property and its limited commercial land area which must serve the immediate needs of the community. 7. That all commercially zoned districts in the City of Falcon Heights directly abut residentially zoned districts. All commercial buildings are within approximately 250 feet of residential dwellings and most are within 40 feet to 100 feet of residential property and, therefore, fall within the highly negative impact area from close proximity to an adult use(s). . 5