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12/13/94 15:48 FAX 612 881 9749 CITY-RICHFIELD +-'.. CITY ATTY la 007 <br /> • <br /> • vehicle theft) increased 7.6 percent in the Hollywood area while the rest of Los <br /> Angeles had a 42 percent ircease. -Penn' arrests (i.e.forgery,prostitution, <br /> narcotics, liquor lam violations, and gambling) increased 34 percent in the rest of <br /> Los Angeles. but 45.4 percent in the Hollywood area. <br /> Other reports considered include a Planning Advisory Report by William Toner, <br /> "Regulating Sex Businesses- May 1977 and The Impact of Pornography: A <br /> Decade of erature- by HB. McKay and KJ. Koff, 1984. Pertinent reviews of <br /> studies and the literature in the field include that by the Rochester/Olmstead <br /> Consolidated Planning Department for the City of Rochester in 1988 and the City <br /> of Ramsey Planning Report of September 1990.. The recent set of documents <br /> and reports of the City of Bloomington is also attached. <br /> The Rochester report as quoted by the Eighth Circuit seemed a reasonable <br /> °review of the findings of the variance studies: <br /> a) A considerable number of communities throughout the nation have <br /> studied the impacts which adult entertainments have on the areas <br /> surrounding them. <br /> • <br /> b) These studies have concluded that adult entertainment uses have <br /> an adverse impact on the surrounding neighborhoods. <br /> • <br /> • c) Residential neighborhoods in proximity to adult uses suffer adverse <br /> • effects including increased crime rates, lowered property values, <br /> and increased transiency. <br /> d) Values of both commercial and residential properties are <br /> • <br /> diminished when located in proximity to adult entertainment <br /> businesses. <br /> • • e) The adverse impact on commercial areas is increased by the <br /> • _ presence of more than one adult entertainment use in close <br /> proximity to another adult entertainment use. <br /> i) The impact which an adult entertainment use has on the <br /> surrounding area appears to lessen as the distance for the adult <br /> entertainment use increases.- <br /> g) Reasonable 'time, place and manner" restrictions which address <br /> the -secondary" impacts of adult entertainment uses are <br /> constlutionally permissible. <br /> as well as the conclusions <br /> — The concerns which have prompted public hearings in this city are <br /> similar to the concerns whiclh motivated the communities of <br /> • Indianapolis, Indiana; St Paul., Minnesota; Phoenix,Arizona; and <br /> 7 <br />