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4 ?a y. ORDINANCE NO. 2776-04 AN ORDINANCE RELATING TO ADULT RETAIL BUSINESS USES, ADOPTING A MORATORIUM ON ESTABLISHING SUCH FACILITIES AND PROCESSING APPLICATIONS RELATED THERETO, AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY. WHEREAS,the City Council does find: 1. The Council has enacted adult business regulations to ensure that such businesses are adequately regulated without impairing their constitutional rights to present protected expression; 2. The Council has adopted such regulations to govern a variety of aspects of the conduct of such businesses, including places within the City where they may locate, and the distances that such businesses should be set-back from sensitive uses, such as schools, parks, places of worship, residential zones, and day care centers; and 3. The Council is concerned about the proliferation within the City of adult retail business uses that deal primarily in the retail sale, rental or other transfer of adult-oriented books, videotapes and other adult paraphernalia, because such adult retail business uses are not currently regulated by existing regulations regarding location and set-backs from sensitive uses; and 4. These adult retail business uses have a potential for adverse social, economic and environmental impacts on the community, as determined by a variety of studies, court decisions and other records developed by other municipalities, and it is necessary to adopt a moratorium with respect to the siting of these facilities for the preservation of public health, safety and welfare, until the City can fully review such studies, court decisions and other records; and 5. RCW 35.63.200 and RCW 36.70A.390 and the City of Everett Charter, Article III, authorize the Council to enact moratoria on land use matters