2005/06/15 Council Agenda Packet

Consultants' Final Report - Page 23 and 1977 respectively, pose the same problem. In March, 1983, however, the Garden of Eden expanded its operation from one suite to three. As in the case of the Party House -Bijou -Video Preview Rental Center complex on the other end of Garden Grove Boulevard, we find a significant rise in crime coincident with this expansion. The analyses supporting these findings will be presented shortly. In our opinion, these seven adult businesses constitute a serious and significant public safety hazard. One aspect of this hazard is apparent in Table 2. During the 1981-90 decade, 610 Garden Grove Boulevard addresses had one or more crimes.31 The seven adult business addresses accounted for 239 Personal, 694 Property, and 538 Part II crimes, however, so these seven addresses accounted for 10.5 percent of the Part I and 25.5 percent of the Part II crime on Garden Grove Boulevard daring the last decade. Since this disparity could occur by chance alone less than one time in one hundred, the implied difference between these seven addresses and the 603 other Garden Grove Boulevard addresses with one or more crimes is statistically significant. The second column of numbers in Table 2 are ranks. These numbers tell the same story but from a different perspective. As shown, three of the top ten Part I crime "hot spots" are found at the adult business addresses. Five of the top ten Part 11 crime "hot spots" are found at the adult " Of course, most Garden Grove Boulevard addresses had no crimes during 1981- 90. Of these addresses with at least one crime, more than 55 percent had only one crime. EVER00368