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state-licensed dayfacility certain care ac ty and pubic schools. It forbade an adults-cr facility from operating within 500 feet of any other adults-only facility. Finally, t • ordinance required existing sexually oriented entertainment establishments to conk); to its provisions by moving to a new location, if necessary, within four years. The Eighth Circuit ruled that the Minneapolis ordinance created restrictions tc severe to be upheld under the Young decision. It would have required all five of t city's sexually oriented theaters and between seven and nine of the city's ten sexua 1 oriented bookstores to relocate and would have required these facilities to compe with another 18 adult-type establishments (saunas, massage parlors and "rap" parlor for a maximum of 12 relocation sites.. The effective result of enforcing the ordinan would be a substantial reduction in the number of adult bookstores and theaters, ar no new adult bookstores or theaters would be able to open, the Court conclude Alexander, supra, 698 F.2d at 938. In Renton, supra, the United States Supreme Court adopted a dearer standa under which regulation of sexually oriented businesses could be tested and uphel. The Court upheld an ordinance prohibiting adult movie theaters from locating with • 1 • 1,000 feet of any residential zone, single- or multiple-family dwelling, church, park c school. Justice Rehnquist, writing for a Court majority that included Justices Stevens an Powell, stated that the Renton ordinance did not ban adult theaters altogether and tha therefore, it was "properly analyzed as a form of time, place and manner regulation. Id. at 46, 106 S.Ct. at 928. When time, place and manner regulations are "conten neutral" and not enacted "for the purpose of restricting speech on the basis of if -7 content," they are "acceptable so long as they are designed to serve a substantia governmental interest and do not unreasonably limit alternative avenues c communication," Rehnquist stated. Id. He found the Renton ordinance to be Conten. neutral because it was not aimed at the content of films shown at adult theaters Rather, the city's "predominate concerns" were with the secondary effects of th theaters. id. at 47, 106 S.Ct. at 929 (emphasis in original). Once a time, place c manner regulation is determined to be content-neutral, "jtjhe appropriate inquiry . . . i whether the . . . ordinance is designed to serve a substantial governmental interest an; • I -33-