2005/06/15 Council Agenda Packet

I. Introduction and Executive Summary This report summarizes an exhaustive series of statistical analyses conducted over a ten-month period by Richard McCleary, Ph.D., James W. Meeker, J.D., Ph.D., and five research assistants. This document presents the statistical analyses that we feel are the most relevant for the legal requirement of basing zoning restrictions on adult businesses on their negative impact on the community in terms of crime, decreased property value and decreased quality of life. It is constitutionally important that the City of Garden Grove base any restrictions on adult businesses on these so called "secondary effects" and not upon the content or moral offensiveness of such businesses reanalysis will reach similar conclusions. We are confident that any independent In July, 1990, we were contacted by the City Manager's Office and Police Department for advice on problems related to the operation of adult businesses on Garden Grove Boulevard. After years of experience with these businesses. the Police Department had come to suspect that their operation constituted a public safety hazard. Partly in response to this situation, the City had adopted a zoning ordinance which restricts the location and density of adult businesses. In order to withstand constitutional scrutiny, the City needs to be able to show that the ordinance was based on the negative secondary effects such businesses have on their surroundings and not on the content of these businesses or their morality. The precise dimensions of the negative impact of these businesses were unknown, however. It was not clear that the superficial spatial relationship between crime EVER00341