2005/06/15 Council Agenda Packet

and west of the TSBID.60 Aware of the legislative history of similar legislation around the country, the TSBID contracted for a further study on the secondary effects of adult entertainment uses and their concentration, which was issued in April 1994.61 The TSBID requests that the city restrict adult establishments in residential neighborhoods, and develop "legal and effective ways to mandate dispersal of these uses ' commercial and manufacturing districts in such a way that no designated area becomes saturated, producing the negative impacts that Times Square and, Eighth Avenue in particular, suffer." The study focused on the impacts of the dense concentrations of adult entertainment uses along 42nd Street between Seventh and Eighth Avenues and along Eighth Avenue between 42nd and 50th Streets. It briefly summarized the history and demographics of the area, crime statistics, and the results of 53 in-person and telephone interviews with large and small-scale business and property owners including retail, restaurant, hotel and theater enterprises as well as community boards. :ivic organizatio—s, churches, schools and social service agencies. It also analyzed trends in property values. Data for assessed property .values for the 1985/86 and 1993/94 years were analyzed individu- ally and in aggregation for study and control blockfronts to derive the specific and overall changes in valuation over that period of time. According to the study, aggregate data showed that the rate of increase of total assessed values for the study blocks with adult uses did not increase as much as the rate of increase for the control blocks without adult uses. For specific blocks, the rates of increase for other uses tended to be less than those for adult uses. The report stated that the proximity of an adult use may be "subjectively viewed" by assessors, and cited further corroboration .by an appraiser with the Department of Finance. The study of property .values concluded that "while it may be that the concentration of adult use establishments .has a generally depressive effect on the adjoining properties ... we do not have sufficient data to prove or disprove this thesis." There were almost twice as many complaints about crime for the 42nd Street study block as the control block, and more than twice as many complaints for the Eighth Avenue study blocks as the control blocks. The number of criminal complaints are highest near 42nd Street where adult uses are most concentrated and decline further along Eighth Avenue. Prostitution arrests 60 "Report on Adult Use Establishments in the Times Square Business Improvement District and the Effect of the New York City Council's Proposed Neighborhood Protection Act," Insight Associates (in association with Raven Design Works), June 14, 1993. 61 "Secondary Effects of the Concentration of Adult Use Establishments in the Times Square Area," Times Square Business Improvement District, April, 1994 (prepared by Insight Associates). 41 EVER00140