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STAFF MEMO <br /> • TO: Planning Commission <br /> From: Joyce Pruitt, Acting Community Development Director <br /> Date: April 11, 1996 <br /> RE: Adult Use Ordinance Issues <br /> Following the April 3, 1996 Planning Commission <br /> meeting, <br /> Jim Thomson to discuss the three issues raised by <br /> staff contacted City used <br /> Adult Use Ordinance. The typos the Commission on the proposed <br /> within the ordinance have been corrected as <br /> requested, and the revised Adult Use Ordinance No. 574 <br /> Listed below are the questions staff understood is attached for your review. <br /> addressed. Attorney Thomson's responses have a Planning Commission would like <br /> questions, perhaps we can address them with CityAttor been <br /> pryvided. If you have further <br /> present at the April 17, 1996 Planning neo Bob Lon <br /> Commission Agenda meeting.g� who will be <br /> Commi <br /> 1• The Planning Commission raised a concern <br /> the correlation to organized crime. regarding absentee landlords and <br /> • the absence of a provision to prohibit absentee onraised a concern regarding <br /> Ordinance. landlords within the Adult Use <br /> 1A. Mr. Thomson replied that although studies <br /> have been linked to organized crime, the Adult Usehown that absentee landlords <br /> closely related to First Amendment rights. <br /> Amendment rights, a City may onl issuesOrdinancert g to Fir regulates issues <br /> 9 With relating to First <br /> adult use businesses. --Y provide stipulations on issues relating to <br /> Therefore, the issue of absentee landlords cannot <br /> be <br /> addressed within this Adult Use Ordinance. <br /> 2. The Planning Commission raised concerns over the lack of language addressing <br /> single use versus multiple uses within an adult use <br /> 2A. It is Mr. Thomson's opinion that we establishment. <br /> ordinance, and that it would be more appropriateId not define multiple uses within this <br /> the proposed licensed massage therapist ordinan <br /> rdactregulate feeling multiple a i f within <br /> adult establishment provides adult books, movies e. His is that if an <br /> and clothing itwould <br /> difficult to legally define what principle use (adult <br /> t <br /> shop) the establishment would be. movies, bookstorreeorrbe too <br /> clothing <br /> establishment would allow a masseuse to'operate inoncern that an adult <br /> ordinance (regulating licensed massage therapists) is <br /> prohibit licensed massage therapists the adult use business.iwillAn <br /> to operate in an adult establishment.being h which <br /> This <br />