2005/06/15 Council Agenda Packet

Consultants' Final Report - Page 15 associated with such businesses. Unlike the LA Studv this analysis is more sophisticated in several respects. The LA Studv examined the secondary effect of crime rates and their association with adult business by comparing the crime rates of Hollywood area (which bad a large concentration of adult businesses during the period studied, November 1975 and December 1976) to the rest of the city.'-; This analysis did show there was an increase in both Part I25 and Part II26 crimes associated with the Hollywood area and its higher concentration of adult businesses in comparison to the rest of the city. While supporting the presence of secondary effects, the analysis has several disadvantages for supporting a dispersion regulation model in Garden Grove. The City of Garden Grove is not very similar to Hollywood, either in municipal character, or concentration and type of adult businesses.'-' More 24 The analysis presented in the LA Study was taken from a report prepared by the Los Angeles City Police Department, The Impact of Sex Oriented Businesses on the Police Problems in the City of Los Angeles. u Part I crimes include homicide, rape aggravated assault, robbery, burglary, larceny, and vehicle theft 26 Part II crimes include other assaults, forgery and counterfeiting, embezzlement and fraud, stolen property, prostitution, narcotics, liquor law violations, gambling, and other miscellaneous misdemeanors. 27 Hollywood in 1969 had 1 hard-core motel, 2 bookstores, 7 theaters, and 1 massage parlor/scam joint; in 1975 had 3 hard-core motels, 18 bookstores, 29 theatres. and 38 massage parlor/scam joints.(see LA Studv, Table VI, p. 54). Garden Grove on the other hand only has seven bookstores and adult video stores. EVER00355