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.• .• .- ' 438 I . ! October 22,1986 ' . the purpose of conducting business as well as raising a , family. Exposure of certain areas of the City to the adverse I secondary effects of adult use businesses would have a deleterious impact upon the CitY's action Programs. 5. Adult use bueinesses are legally entitled to operate within the City of Everett as well as within any community they so deeire to operate. 6. The City of EVerett is unique geographically in that it ie generally long and narrow. The result of this geographic characteristic is that most commercial areas are intimately linked with residentially soiled areas and lack the depth i which normally provides the requisite seParation (buffer) 1 between commercial uses and residential uses. 7. Adulltiuse,,busilessesdeneld tLibl.esegrateddefrom.ecelain effects generated by these businesses. 8. Column., Development Block Grant designated neighborhoods . are seneitive areas of the City for the purposes of adult use business zoning because they have been determined to have a disproportionate number ef lower income households, an older housing stook, greater numbers of children and other characteristics which make them particularlyimately sensitive to the 3 • adverse secondary effects of adult use businesses. .I 9. Adult use businesses need to be dispersed from each other in . order to avoid the cumulative effect of concentration. • ;I II• 10. Adult use bueinesses need to be separated from establishments selling alcoholic beverages by the drink(s). If .. Existing adult use businesses which do not conform with the li , adult use business zoning adopted by the City suet be brought into soning compliance as aeon as is possible in order to . eliminate their adverse secondary effects upon the , surrounding area(s). 12. Southwest EVerett, Smith Island, the Everett Waterfront and the area east of Broadway between 39th St.and Pacific Ave., when taken together,are very similar in character to the 520 . acre site set aside by the City of Renton for adult use '' busineeses. These areas total approx2000 acres which 11 is approximately 109 of the City's land masa. • if 13. The areas of Southwest Everett, Smith Island, the Everett Waterfront and the area east of Broadway in comparison to the f. area in Renton sei aside for adult use bueinesses provides as j good if rmt better opportunity for adult use businesses to . exist than is provided in the City of Renton:and ,. WHEREAS, the City Council finds that the zoning regulations for adult use businesses as eet forth in Ordinance No. 1330-86 are 1 consistent with the City's General Plan and are the least restrictive alternatives available,and 1,.. tI. vi