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Staff Report for Ordinance No. 574 Page Three of Three �Q. The Planning Commission noted that a study cited negative impacts diminish if an adult establishment is located more than three blocks away, and was concerned how the provision of keeping adult uses at least 500' away from protected uses within the Adult Use Ordinance relates to this study. A. Mr. Thomson noted that this was only one study, and the three block provision is not a steadfast rule which a City must abide by in order to diminish impacts. Basically, Mr. Thomson noted the City legally has to provide areas for adult use establishments to locate. Most cities have allowed adult use establishments to locate anywhere within 250 feet to 1,000 feet from protected uses. Attorney Thomson is comfortable that the.provision of 500 feet from protected uses will be able to protect our residential neighborhoods, churches, parks and schools, and be a defensible standards in a court of law. As mentioned earlier, a great deal of information has been completed by other cities as they have dealt with regulating adult uses. For your information, the following materials are available in my office for your perusal: 1. Mounds View Ordinance No. 509, establishing a moratorium on adult uses for twelve months; 2. Mounds View Ordinance No. 525, establishing a moratorium on adult uses for eighteen months; 3. Attorney General's Report on the Regulation of Sexually Oriented Businesses (this reference studies done in many other cities) dated June 06, 1989; 4. St. Paul Department of Planning and Economic Development, Adult Entertainment Supplement to the 1987 Zoning Study, 1988. • 5. Adult Entertainment Report by the Rochester/Olmsted Consolidated Planning Department and Office of the Rochester City Attorney. 6. Richfield staff memorandum dated 1994. In addition, copies of additional studies and reports relating to adult use establishments can be obtained for review, should the City Council be interested. If you are interested in reading reports used by operators of adult uses which suggest such uses do not create adverse secondary effects, I can provide a report from the City of Rochester and a 1984 report "The Impact of Pornography: A Decade of Literature." Attached you will find Ordinance No. 574, a copy of the Planning Commission Resolution No. 445-96 recommending support for Ordinance No. 574, and a map denoting areas where the proposed adult use ordinance would provide for adult establishments to locate within the City. City Attorney Bob Long and myself will be in attendance at the April 22, 1996 City Council meeting for the public hearing for Ordinance No. 574. If you have any questions relating to this item, please do not hesitate to contact me. •