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consider the adoption of amendments to official controls, <br />including the Zoning Code, which could affect the siting of <br />Adult Uses -Principal within the City; and <br />WHEREAS, the Lino Lakes City Council finds that an interim <br />ordinance placing a moratorium on the locating of Adult <br />Uses -Principal within certain specified distances from churches, <br />residential zoning district boundaries, schools, and youth <br />facilities is necessary to protect the planning process and the <br />ongoing process of the amendment of the comprehensive plan; and <br />WHEREAS, the City Council of the City of Lino Lakes declares <br />that an emergency exists and that it is necessary in order to <br />preserve the public peace, health and welfare, pursuant to <br />Section 3.06 of the Lino Lakes City Charter, that an emergency <br />interim ordinance placing a moratorium on the location of <br />Adult -Uses Principal within certain specified distances from <br />churches, residential zoning district boundaries, schools, and <br />youth facilities, is necessary and should go into effect imme- <br />diately upon the passage of this ordinance, so that the City can <br />conclude its studies and hearings relating to the amendment of <br />the comprehensive plan and the adoption and amendment of <br />official controls. <br />Section 2. Definitions. <br />(a) Adult Uses. Adult uses include adult book stores, adult <br />motion picture theatres, adult mini -motion picture theatres, <br />adult massage parlors, adult steam room/bathhouse/sauna <br />facilities, adult companionship establishments, adult <br />rap/conversation parlors, adult health/sport clubs, adult <br />cabarets, adult novelty businesses, adult motion picture <br />arcades, adult modeling studios, adult hotels/motels, adult <br />body painting studios, and other premises, enterprises, <br />establishments, businesses or places open to some or all <br />members of the public, at or in which there is an emphasis <br />on the presentation, display, depiction or description of <br />"specified sexual activities" or "specified anatomical <br />areas" which are capable of being seen by members of the <br />public. Activities classified as obscene as defined by <br />Minnesota Statutes 617.241 are not included. <br />(b) Adult Uses -Principal. The offering of goods and/or services <br />which are classified as adult uses as a primary or sole <br />activity of a business or establishment and include but are <br />not limited to the following: <br />1. Adult Use - Body Painting Studio. An establishment or <br />business which provides the service of applying paint or <br />other substance, whether transparent or non -transparent, to <br />