2005/06/15 Council Agenda Packet

Consultants' Final Report - Page 10 where they were deemed inappropriate. In addition, concentration of adult businesses might aid in the policing of such activities and would make it easier for those who wanted to avoid such businesses to do so. There has been some question as to the effectiveness of this regulatory approach, as the LA Study observed: The effectiveness and appropriateness of the Boston approach is a subject of controversy. There has been some indication that it has resulted in an increase in crime within the district and there is an increased vacancy rate in the surrounding office buildings. Due to complaints of serious criminal incidents, law enforcement activities have been increased and a number of liquor licenses in the area have been revoked. Since the "Combat Zone" and most of the surrounding area are part of various redevelopment projects, however, the change in character of the area cannot be attributed solely to the existence of "adult entertainment" businesses." The other approach that municipalities have followed is the dispersement model, sometimes called the Detroit model. In 1972 Detroit modified an "Anti - Skid Row Ordinance" to provide that subject to waiver, an adult theater could not be located within 1,000 feet of any two other "regulated uses" or within 500 feet of a residential area. Regulated uses applied to ten different kinds of business establishments including adult theaters, adult book stores, cabarets, bars, taxi dance haIIs and hotels. This statutory zoning approach to regulating adult business was legally challenged and subsequently upheld by the Supreme Court as " Id., at 9. EVER00350