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• recognized that schcol children should be sheltered and protected frau corrupting influences. For example, an establishment where alcoholic beverages are sold or consumed, is required by state statute to be a certain distance from a school or playground area, even though such establishments are a legitimate business for adult patrons. B. Characteristics of Adult Entertainment Uses Adult entertainment businesses prompt a wide range of concerns, from offensive social behavior to the diminishment of the viability of carmercial and industrial areas. Are these concerns real or perceived? In order to determine if adult entertainment businesses affect an area it is first necessary to understand what these uses are and what characteristics they possess. While there are many different types of adult businesses, they have as their primary intention to sell or distribute products, materials or services to adults which relate to " specified sexual activities" or "specified anatomical areas" (see glossary for definition) . These products take the form of books, magazines, video tape movies, closed circuit television, coin or electronically operated motion picture machines, motion picture theaters, live peer tornarces by entertainers and other service activities. 40. Each use in a city has unique characteristics which make that use distinguishable £ u any other use. While m?t,1 t entertainment uses possess characteristics similar to other commercial uses, they seen to have N4rl4tional characteristics which are unique. These include extended hours of operation, increased vehicular traffic, litter, noise, excessive signage, transient traffic and prostitution. By contrast residential uses possess characteristics which are directly contrary to those of adult entertainment uses. These are limited traffic, stable population, cleanliness, quiet atmosphere, security, and openness. An impact is then the effect of one set of characteristics conflicting with another.- It has been alleged that adult entertainment businesses have both direct and indirect impacts on surrounding properties and on adjacent neighborhoods. Direct impacts are the increased traffic, unusual hours of operation, increasing cr me, litter and noise. Indirect impacts include a reluctance of pecple to reside near the area due to the perception that adult businesses detrimentally affect the value cf properties within and around the area. Another concern by residents, beth residential and commercial, is the perception that criminal activities increased as a result of these uses locating in their neighborhoods. The following chapter reflects attempts by several cities to determine what 4111 these impacts are.