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regularly features persons who appear in a state of nudity or <br /> live performances which are characterized by the exposure of <br /> "specified anatomical areas" or by "specified sexual activities." <br /> SUBDIVISION: The separation of an area, parcel, or tract of land under single <br /> ownership into two or more parcels, tracts, lots, or long-term <br /> leasehold interests where the creation of the leasehold interest <br /> necessitates the creation of streets, roads, or alleys, for <br /> residential, commercial, industrial, or other use or any <br /> combination thereof, except those separations: <br /> A. Where all the resulting parcels, tracts, lots, or interests will <br /> be 20 acres or larger in size and 500 feet in width for residential <br /> uses and five acres or larger in size for commercial and <br /> industrial uses; <br /> B. Creating cemetery lots; <br /> C. Resulting from court orders, or the adjustment of lots line <br /> by the relocation of a common boundary. <br /> ZONING APPROVALS: Rezoning, land use guide plan changes, conditional use permits, <br /> interim use permits, variances, site plan approval, planned unit <br /> development approval. <br /> SECTION 2. Background and Intent. <br /> 2.01. The State Attorney General has prepared a report entitled "report of <br /> the Attorney General's Working Group on Regulation of Sexually Oriented Businesses," <br /> dated June 6, 1989, prepared by Hubert H. Humphrey, III, Attorney General of the State of <br /> Minnesota/Ohnstead County Planning Department "Adult Entertainment Report" dated <br /> March 2, 1988, and "A 40-Acre Study" prepared by the St. Paul Division of Planning in <br /> 1987, all of which reports are hereafter collectively referred to as "Reports". The Reports <br /> considered evidence from studies conducted in Minneapolis and St. Paul and in other cities <br /> throughout the country relating to sexually oriented businesses. <br /> 2.02. The Attorney General's Report, based upon the above referenced <br /> studies and the testimony presented to it has concluded "that sexually oriented businesses <br /> are associated with high crime rates and depression of property values." In addition, the <br /> Attorney General's Working Group: "...heard testimony that the character of a <br /> neighborhood can dramatically change when there is a concentration of sexually oriented <br /> businesses adjacent to residential property." The report concludes that: <br /> 73355 <br /> 6 <br />