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ORDINANCE NO. 509 CITY OF MOUNDS VIEW COUNTY OF RAMSEY STATE OF MINNESOTA AN ORDINANCE PLACING A MORATORIUM ON THE SITING OF ADULT USES-PRINCIPAL AS DEFINED HEREIN WITHIN ANY ZONING DISTRICT OF THE CITY OF MOUNDS VIEW The City Council of the City of Mounds View does hereby ordain: (Added portions are underscored and deleted portions are shown in brackets. ) Section 1. PREAMBLE WHEREAS, the City Council has reviewed and considered the summary of the "report of the Attorney General's Working Group on Regulation of Sexually Oriented Businesses" , dated June 6, 1989 , prepared by Hubert H. Humphrey, III, Attorney General of the State of Minnesota/Olmstead County Planning Department "Adult Entertainment Report" dated March 2 , 1988, and "A 40-Acre Study" prepared by the St. Paul Division of Planning in 1987 , all of which reports are hereafter collectively referred to as "Reports" ; and WHEREAS, the Reports considered evidence from studies conducted in Minneapolis and St. Paul and in other cities throughout the country relating to sexually oriented businesses; and WHEREAS, the Attorney General's Report, based upon the above referenced studies and the testimony presented to it has concluded "that sexually oriented businesses are associated with hi•h crime rates and depression of property values. " In addition, the Atcney—Gen-era-ris—Working Group" . .heard testimony—that the character of a neighborhood can dramatically change when there is a concentration of sexually oriented businesses adjacent to residential property. " ; and WHEREAS, the Reports conclude that Adult Uses-Principal have an impact on the neighborhoods surrounding them which is distinct from the impact caused by other commercial uses; and WHEREAS, the Reports conclude that residential neighborhoods located within close proximity to adult theaters, bookstores and other Adult Uses-Principal experience increase crime rates (sex- 1