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Ms. Sangeeta Kurupillai April 29, 1997 Page 7 Generally, most other live entertainment SOBs are dispersed and located individually throughout many neighborhoods in the city. The Control Areas, East and West, were chosen due to their similaz land uses and traffic pattems to those of the Study Area. Control Area West is an area along West Northwest Highway just to the east of the Study Area which does not contain any SOBs. Tt is located along the same highway as the Study Atea and predominately consists of highway commercial and residential uses. ConVo) Atea East consists of another part of the same highway, East Northwest Highway. This Control Area, however, contains two SOBs one of which, PT's, is at Lawther Lane at the east end of the Control Area and a second SOB, DoIPs House, is located at the west end of the Control Area. This azea contains both highway commercial and residential uses. The two SOBs are approximately one-half a mile apart but are within 1,000 feet of residential uses. The boundaries of the tlu�ee azeas were chosen to coincide with the Police Department beats. It is through the beats that crime data is collected and analyzed. ANALYSIS OF DATA A summary of other localities' findings regazding SOBs: DALLAS, TEXAS Property Owner/Agent Interviews Between September and November, 1994 the Malin Group interviewed 30 people who were either the owners of commercial property or their agents in the one Study Area and two Control Areas. During Mazch and April 1997, we conducted further interviews with some of the same and many additional owners and agents in the areas. All of the people interviewed in the Study Area believed that their property values (or those of the owner that they represented) were lower due, in part, to the presence of the seven SOBs operating as Adult Cabarets along West Northwest Highway. This loss of value manifested itself in a variety of ways including: increased operating costs, such as, addilional security patrols, burglar alartns, trash cleanup; income propeRy selling at much lower sales prices than comparable properties in similar areas, extreme difficulty leasing in certain shopping centers ar�d a lack of demand for commercial land. We examined three sales of retail zoned land in the Study Area which sold for but a&action of what similar properties along the sazne highway in the Control Atea brought. The land sales in the Control Area ranged between $10.00/SF and $12.00/SF while four sales along the sazne 06/12/97 15:30 TX/RX N0.5591 P. 8 �