2005/06/15 Council Agenda Packet

Consultants' Final Report - Page 22 IV. The Impacted Area and the Public Safety Hazard At present, seven adult-oriented businesses operate on Garden Grove Boulevard. The Partv House, located at 8751 Garden Grove Boulevard, was in operation on December 16, 1980, when the City of Garden Grove annexed this area. Two other adult businesses, the Bijou and the Video Preview Rental Center, located at 8745 and 8743 Garden Grove Boulevard in the same building as the Party House, opened in March, 1986 and August, 1988 respectively. Given the proximity of these three businesses, their individual impacts on crime are confounded. Treating them as a single cluster of businesses, however, we find a significant increase in both Personal and Property crimes following the openings of the adult businesses at 8745 and 8743 Garden Grove Boulevard in March. 1986 and August, 1988. The Adult, located at 8502 Garden Grove Boulevard, and the A to Z, located at 8192 Garden Grove Boulevard, are far enough away from the 8700 block to allow for an assessment of individual impact. But since these businesses opened in February and May, 1980, at the very beginning of our crime data, there is no simple causal benchmark for attributing crime around these businesses to their operation. The pattern of crime around these businesses is nevertheless consistent with that hypothesis. At the other end of Garden Grove Boulevard, the Hip Pocket (12686) and the Garden of Eden (12061-5), which opened in 1971 EVER00367