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<br />,--- <br />. ORDINANCE NO. 305 <br /> AN INTERIM ORDINANCE PLACING A MORATORIUM <br /> ON THE SITING OF ADULT ESTABLISHMENTS WITHIN <br /> ANY ZONING DISTRICT OF THE CITY OF ARDEN HILLS; <br /> AND DIRECTING A STUDY TO BE CONDUCTED <br /> THE ARDEN HILLS CITY COUNCIL ORDAINS: <br /> Section 1. Recitals. <br /> 1.01 The State Attorney General has prepared a report entitled "report of the Attorney <br /> General's Working Group on Regulation of Sexually Oriented Businesses", dated <br /> June 6, 1989, prepared by Hubert H. Humphrey, III, Attorney General oftl1e State of <br /> Minnesota/Olmsted County Planning Department "Adult Entertainment Report" <br /> dated March 2, 1988, and "A 40-Acre Study" prepared by the St. Paul Division of <br /> Planning in 1987, all of which reports are hereafter collectively referred to as <br /> "Reports". The Reports considered evidence from studies conducted in Minneapolis <br /> and St. Paul and in other cities throughout the country relating to sexually oriented <br /> businesses. <br />. 1.02 The State Attorney General's Report, based upon the above referenced studies and <br /> the testimony presented to it has concluded "that sexually oriented businesses are <br /> associated witl1 high crime rates and depression of property values." In addition, the <br /> State Attorney General's Working Group". . . heard testimony that the character of <br /> a neighborhood can dramatically change when there is a concentration of sexually <br /> oriented businesses adjacent to residential property." The Reports conclude that: <br /> a. adult uses have an impact on the neighborhoods surrounding them which is <br /> distinct from the impact caused by other commercial uses; <br /> b. residential neighborhoods located within close proximity to adult theaters, <br /> bookstores and other adult uses experience increased crime rates (sex-related <br /> crimes in particular), lowered property values, increased transiency, and <br /> decreased stability of ownership; <br /> c. the adverse impacts which adult uses have on surrounding areas diminish as <br /> the distance from the adult uses increases; <br /> d. studies of other cities have shown that among the crimes which tend to <br /> increase either within or in the near vicinity of adult uses are rapes, <br /> prostitution, child molestation, indecent exposure and other lewd and <br /> lascivious behavior; <br />. 1 <br />