2005/06/15 Council Agenda Packet

• Chicago's requirement that owners or managing agents register and provide specific information related to the nature of their business, p ies signs and displays by prohibiting the exterior display of sexual activity nand regulates nudity. • Renton, a suburb of Seattle, restricted adult motion picture theatres from locating within 1,000 feet of a residentially zoned area or a house of worship, park, mat or school. The restrictions were upheld because It was found that a Per cent of the city's total land would stili remain available for adult usesely five • Boston's creation of an Adult Entertainment District on the borders of downtown center, and has thus concentrated rather than dispersed a its is a two -block area know as the "Combat Zone*, dult uses. This • Islip, Long Island's plan to restrict the. location of.adult districts, a plan that was upheld by the New York State 'Courtuses to industrial of Appeals. Zoning has been an especially frequent tool for cities regulatingad since the Supreme Court has held that adult entertainment i adult uses, any other, that can be subject to rational scrutiny under equal protection. Jul s a type of land use, like Gerard, �.ocal Re ulation of Aduh Busin sses Deerfield, Illinois: Clar (Jules B. Callaghan, 1992, 0,129). k Boardman Certain generalizations are seen in the variety of Court rulings in regard zoning: . g d to • Locational restrictions cannot be so severe as to preclud future number of adult uses in a city, a the present and/or • The more evident and rational the relationship of adult use restrictions recognized zoning purposes, (e.g, the*- preservation of neighborhoods, thegrouping to Of compatible uses), the greater the likelihood that the zoning restri illbe upheld. 9 coon will be • The greater the vagueness of a law the more like) .it.]s Y..... to.be_ struck down. • if there is too much administrative dlscretioh a:.law ,Is down, since government may regulate only with narrow specific' like) Y to bestruck specificity. 4 EVER00190