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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 -high- crime rates and depression of property values. " In addition, the Attorney General's Working Group" . . .heard testimony that the character of a neighborhood can dramatically change when there is a concentration of sexually oriented businesses adiacent 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