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STAFF REPORT TO PLANNING COMMISSION • ADULT USES MARCH 28, 1996 PAGE TWO OF FOUR areas adjacent to adult uses. Due to adverse secondary effects, communities can regulate adult uses to mitigate the negative impact where minors gather. Communities can regulate adult uses to provide separation between such uses to prevent an accumulations of adult uses in one area as studies show adverse secondary effects increase as the number of adult uses grow. Communities have the right to regulate (not prohibit) adult uses. Obviously, communities use zoning to regulate land uses. Any zoning regulations the Commission considers for adult uses must be based on: the effect the use has on the surrounding area, not on the materials sold or entertainment provided; the uses create adverse secondary effects such as neighborhood blight, diminished property values and increased crime (the City can rely on studies conducted in other cities which show adverse secondary effects which are of particular concern to Mounds View); and the city must allow a reasonable opportunity area for adult uses, but the City can establish distance requirements. As I mentioned, there is a great deal of information completed by other communities as they have dealt with regulating adult uses. For your information, enclosed are the following materials: 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 references studies done in many cities);