2005/06/15 Council Agenda Packet

Consultants' Final Report - Page 9 anti -discrimination statutes was first tried by Minneapolis' but has failed to catch on in general.10 However, many municipalities have been very successful in regulating where pornographic businesses and adult entertainment businesses can locate through the use of zoning laws., Municipalities have followed two major strategies in regulating the location of adult entertainment businesses. One approach is to concentrate adult businesses in a limited area, often called the Boston or "combat zone" approach. The other approach follows the opposite tactic by dispersing adult entertainment businesses, preventing their concentration, often called the Detroit approach.`1 In Boston, adult entertainment businesses had been unofficially concentrated in a specific area of the city for many years.''- This "combat zone" was officially established as the Adult Entertainment District in 1974. It was felt that by formally restricting such businesses to an area where they were already established would prevent the spreading of these businesses to neighborhoods 9 Minneapolis Code of Ordinances (MDO), Title 7, ch. 139.20, sec. 3, subd. (gg), (I)- " See Downs supra note 2 " For a general discussion of these two approaches see Planning Committee of the Los Angeles City Council, Study of the Effects of the Concentration of Adult Entertainment Establishments In the City of Los Angeles, Los Angeles City Planning Department (June, 1977) (Hereinafter LA Studv). '' This discussion of Boston and the "combat zone" approach is taken from the LA Study id., at 9-10. EVER00 349