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Among the study recommendations, Manatee County notes:
<br />The sign is often the most notable physical element of an adult entertainment
<br />business. Adult entertainment signs should be controlled to protect the general
<br />Public from the negative aesthetics of "poor -taste. " Sign controls should be consid-
<br />ered which still protect a business's freedom to advertise, but also minimize public's
<br />exposure to such uses.
<br />New Hanover County, North Carolina
<br />In July, 1989, the New Hanover County PIanning Department published a study in support
<br />of proposed zoning text amendments designed to control the location of adult entertainment
<br />businesses.1° The one or two adult businesses located in the County had not generally been
<br />a problem; the proposed zoning regulations were considered preventative.
<br />New Hanover, like Manatee County, relied on studies of other cities to predicate its proposed
<br />zoning text amendments.15 Potential adverse impacts from adult uses and adult uses in
<br />concentration could be anticipated, according to the report, based on studies completed in
<br />Boston, Detroit, Los Angeles, Indianapolis, Beaumont, Phoenix, Amarillo, and others. Those
<br />impacts have been identified in the discussion, above.
<br />Regulations in Other Localities
<br />In communities throughout the United States, adult entertainment uses have appeared recently
<br />within or close to stable residential areas, leading many communities to adopt rules placing
<br />locational and other restrictions on these uses. In the New York metropolitanarea, many
<br />Long Island communities (Islip, Brookhaven, Smithtown, Babylon, and Huntington, among
<br />others) have enacted zoning regulations that restrict the location and operation of adult
<br />businesses. In general, these restrictions attempt to protect residential and commercial areas
<br />by allowing adult uses only in low -visibility industrial districts. 16
<br />"Regulation of Adult Entertainment Establishments in New Hanover County," New Hanover County
<br />Planning Department, July, 1989.
<br />15 New Hanover County cites the following studies in its analyses of impacts in other cities:
<br />McClendon, Bruce W., "Zoning for Adults Only," Zoning News, August 1985, pp. 1-3.
<br />YOW, Robert B., "Adult Entertainment Zoning: A Case Study," Carolina Planning, Vol. 7, No. 1,
<br />Spring 1981, pp. 33-41.
<br />16 Jim Puzzanghera, "Town OKs 3 -Month Limit On Porn," New York Newsday,North Shore Edition, June
<br />23, 1993, p.31.
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