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<br />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 /> <br />SUBDIVISION: <br /> <br />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 /> <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 /> <br />B. Creating cemetery lots; <br /> <br />C. Resulting from court orders, or the adjustment of lots line <br />by the relocation of a common boundary. <br /> <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 /> <br />SECTION 2. <br /> <br />Back2round and Intent. <br /> <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/Olmstead 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 /> <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 /> <br />73355 <br /> <br />6 <br />