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residential areas with adult use(s), crime frequencies were 56% higher than in the commercial areas without an adult use(s). The research also found that although the housing base in the study area with an adult use(s) was of a distinctly higher value than the control areas without the adult use(s), the study area's value appreciated at half the rate of the control areas between 1979 and 1982. The Indianapolis Study cited the results of a national survey done using a random sample of 20% of the American Institute of Real Estate Appraisers and a sampling of Member Appraisers Institute (MAI) to determine the impact of adult uses on surrounding property values. The survey results found that: 1. Survey respondents overwhelmingly (80 percent) felt that an adult bookstore located in the hypothetical neighborhood described in the survey would have a negative impact on residential property values of premises located within one block of the site. 2. Seventy -two percent of the respondents also felt that there would be a detrimental effect on commercial property values at the same one block radius. 3. This negative impact dissipates markedly as the distance from the site increases, so that at three blocks a negative impact on residential property continued, but the degree of impact had decreased by more than one -half as judged by the number of respondents indicating negative impact at three blocks. Study 3. City of St. Paul, Minnesota (1987, 1988) A third study prepared by the City of St. Paul Planning and Economic Development Department analyzed population and crime characteristics of a St. Paul neighborhood, the University Dale neighborhood, where a number of adult uses were located to determine the secondary impacts from these businesses. The study found that the neighborhood exhibited many signs of distress including the highest unemployment rate in the city, the highest percentage of families below the poverty line, the lowest median family income and the lowest percentage of high school and college graduates. The study hypothesized that the adult uses lead to prostitution which then lead to other types of crime. The study found that the city's highest number of prostitution arrests occurred at five intersections near the University and Dale intersection. The residents in the University and Dale neighborhood reported frequent sex related harassment by motorists and pedestrians in the neighborhood.