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in the City Code's standards for operations of an adult business. Performance standards <br />would of course be required to vary in content relative to controlled adult busine <br />Adult business licenses should not attempt to regulate the land use effect of <br />the use on the neighborhood or community, but should be utilized to assure perform- <br />ance at a certain standard, to maintain an accurate record of business <br />locations, and to provide fees to the City for services above the average. By <br />maintaining a clear distinction between the requirements of a license and the zoning <br />ordinance the entire control mechanism is strengthened. <br />The preceeding portion of this section has dealt with the regulation of businesses <br />that totally restrict entry, sale, and viewing of products to adults only. Methods to <br />control the ease of view of generally distributed pornographic material are numerous <br />and not detailed explicitly in this report. Briefly though, methods to control the <br />display of this material range from requiring the display to be in separate rooms <br />with an enforceable and enforced restricted admittance, to simply covering the entire <br />publication with an opaque slip cover with the publication's name printed on the <br />cover. The control of the display and sale of pornographic material through a City <br />Ordinance licensing mechanism would work to protect minors from harmful material <br />(Section 43.24) and adults who would be offended by certain displays of pornographic <br />material (Section 43.22) generally available for the public's view. <br />SUMMARY AND FINDING <br />The analysis of the impacts of adult -only businesses upon surrounding land <br />uses indicates that these businesses do have effects that can be distinguished <br />from other uses allcn.ied in like zoning districts. The following identifies two <br />causal factors isolated in this preliminary analysis: <br />I. The Amarillo Police Department's statistical survey of street cringe <br />in the vicinity of adult -only business indicates that crime rates <br />are considerably above the City's average immediately surrounding <br />the adult -only businesses analyzed. <br />-14- EVER00334 <br />