HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrd. No. 1985-755ORDINANCE N0. 755
AN URGENCY ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF LAKE ELSINORE,
CALIFORNIA, REGULATING THE LOCATION AND ESTABLISH-
MENT OF ADULT BUSINESSES
WHEREAS, adult businesses may have certain adverse impacts on
properties adjoining them;
WHEREAS, the location and proliferation of adult businesses
within certain areas of the City may result in a general reluctance to invest
in those areas; and
WHEREAS, the inappropriate location of adult businesses may have
a negative impact on certain segments of the community.
NOW, THEREFORE, THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF LAKE ELSINORE,
CALIFORNIA, DOES HEREBY ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION ONE.
The above recitals are true and correct.
SECTION TWO.
"Adult Business" shall mean any massage parlor, motel, studio,
bookstore, theater, cabaret, or sexual encounter center which is not customarily
open to the general public under the age of eighteen (18) as a prevailing
business practice, due to the nature and explicitness of sex related subject
matter..
SECTION THREE.
Uses classified as adult businesses shall not be permitted within
the City's Central Business District as herein defined:
On the east and west sides of Main Street between Lakeshore
Drive to the south and the Interstate 15 Freeway to the north
and along the north and south sides of Graham Avenue between
Main Street to the east and Chaney Street to the west.
SECTION FOUR.
Uses classified as adult businesses may be permitted in the C-2
(General Commercial) and CM (Commercial Manufacturing) Zoning Districts out-
side the Central Business District, subject to obtaining a Conditional Use
Permit and meeting the following requirements:
1. No adult businesses shall locate within five hundred feet (500')
of the boundary of a residential district as shown on official
City maps, or within five hundred feet (500') of any residential
use.
2. No adult businesses shall locate within one thousand feet (1,000")
of any other adult business.
3. No adult businesses shall locate within one thousand feet (1,000')
of any public or private school, park, playground, civic or
cultural building, church. or beach.
4. All development standards of the base district shall be applied.
5. The interior of any bookstore shall be adequately lighted and
constructed so that every portion thereof is readily visible
to the clerk ar other supervisory personnel from the counter
or other regular station.
6. Lobby and entrance areas shall be designed so as to minimize
obstruction of sidewalks during operating hours.
7. Advertisement, displays, or other promotional materials shall
not 6e shown or exhibited so as to be visible to the public, from
pedestrian sidewalks or walkways, or from other areas public or
semi-public; and such displays shall be considered signs.
8. All-signage, window and other, shall be approved by the Planning
Division.
SECTION FIUE.
If any provision or clause of this ordinance or the application
thereof to any person or circumstances is held to be unconstitutional or other-
wise invalid by any court of competent jurisdiction, such invalidity shall not
affect other provisions or clauses or applications of this ordinance which can
be implemented without the invalid provision, clause or application; and to
this end, the provisions of this ordinance are declared to be severable.
SECTION SIX.
This ordinance shall be effective immediately and shall remain
in effect for sixty (60) days after adoption.
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INTRODUCED, APPROVED AND ADOPTED UPON FIRST READING this 24th
day of September, 1985, upon the following roll call vote:
AYES: COUNCILMEMBERS: KNIGHT, MATSON, STRIGOTTE, VERMILLION, VALENZUELA
NOES: COUNCILMEMBERS: NONE
ABSENT: COUNCILMEMBERS: NONE
ABSTENTIONS: COUNCILMEMBERS: NONE
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ATTEST:
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APPROVED AS TO FORM:
John R. Harper, City Attorney
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STATE OF CALIFOPNIA )
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COUNTY OF RIVERSIDE )
I, Jo Ann Money, City Clerk of the City of Lake Elsinore, DO
HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing Ordinance had its first reading on
September 24, 1985 d(~(QXb(~#Xk~9(X~~~4(~(#X9f~~(~XtX~X~d(
and was passed by the following vote:
AYES:. COUNCILMEMBERS: KNIGHT, MATSON, STRIGOTTE, VERMILLION, VALENZUELA
NOES: COUNCILMEMBERS: NONE
ABSENT: COUNCILMEMBERS: NONE
JO NN MONEY, CITY CL RK
C OF LAKE ELSINORE
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STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF RIVERSIDE )
I, Jo Ann Money, City Clerk of the City of Lake Elsinore,
DO HEREBY CERTIFY that the above and foregoing is a full, true and correct
copy of Ordinance No. 755 of said Council, and that the same
has not been amended or repealed.
DATED: September 25, 1985
J ANN MONEY, CITY CLERK
Y OF LAKE ELSINORE
(SEAL)