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Consultants' Final Report - Page 16 <br />importantly, Garden Grove seeks to control adult businesses in terms of their <br />location to schools, churches, and residences (200 feet) and in relation to each <br />other (1000 feet).' To substantiate the relation between these distances and the <br />secondary effects needed to justify the regulation, the analysis should demonstrate <br />an association between the secondary effects and these distances. For example, if <br />crime rates are higher within 1000 feet of an adult business than they are around <br />other businesses, this demonstrates a stronger association between secondary <br />effects and the regulation designed to control them. While areas of a city that <br />have higher concentrations of adult businesses may have higher crime rates than <br />other areas, this gives little support for regulation of specific distances between <br />adult business and other land uses. <br />The LA Study also presents the analyses of two questionnaires, one to <br />businessmen and residential property owners, and one to realtors, real estate <br />appraisers and lenders, to determine the effects of adult businesses. While the <br />questionnaires do ask the respondents about possible negative effects, there was no <br />distinction between the negative effects when the distances from adult businesses <br />varied, nor when there were two or more such business located near each other. <br />Both of these issues are important aspects of the Garden Grove ordinance. <br />' See Appendix for the Garden Grove ordinance. <br />EVER00356 <br />