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FINDINGS 01<' FACT WHEREAS, based on the legal background referenced herein, the Roseville City Council hereby makes the following Findings of Fact in connection with the regulation of sexually oriented businesses within the City. 1. That the Planning Commission/City Council has had an opportunity to review and consider all the material and unsworn testimony presented before it in connection with the regulation of sexually oriented businesses within the City. 2. The Planning Commission/City Council has had an opportunity to review and study the "Report of the Attorney General's Working Group on Regulation of Sexually Oriented Businesses," dated June 6, 1989 referred to hereafter as the "Report." 3. The Report considered evidence from studies conducted in Minneapolis and St. Paul and in other cities throughout the country relating to sexually oriented businesses. 4. The Attorney General's Report, based upon the above referenced studies and the testimony presented to it has concluded "that sexually oriented businesses are associated with high crime rates and depression of property values." In addition, the Attorney General's Work Group "* * * heard testimony that the character of a neighborhood can dramatically change when there is a concentration of sexually oriented businesses adjacent to residential property." 5. The RepOli concludes that sexually oriented businesses have an impact on the neighborhoods surrounding them which is distinct from the impact caused by other commercial uses. 6. The Report concludes that residential neighborhoods located within close proximity to adult theaters, book stores, and other sexually oriented businesses experience increased crime rates (sex-related crimes in particular), lowered property values, increased transiency, and decreased stability of ownership. 7. The Report concludes the adverse impacts which sexually oriented businesses have on surrounding areas diminish as the distance from the sexually oriented businesses Increases. 8. The Report concludes that studies of other cities have shown that among the crimes which tend to increase either within or in the near vicinity of sexually oriented businesses are rapes, prostitution, child molestation, indecent exposure, and other lewd and lascivious behavior. 9. The Report concludes that the Phoenix, Arizona study confirmed that the sex crime rate was on the average 500 percent higher in areas with sexually oriented businesses. 10. The Report concludes that many members of the public perceive areas within which sexually oriented businesses are located as less safe than other areas which do not have such uses. 11. The Report concludes that studies of other cities have shown that the values of both commercial and residential properties either are diminished or fail to appreciate at the 2