2005/06/15 Council Agenda Packet

Consultants' Final Report - Page 41 aspects of urban life. Exceptions to this rule are rare and the intensity of the feeling is greatest in neighborhood nearer Garden Grove Boulevard. Each interview began by asking the respondent to estimate the distance from his or her house to the nearest adult business. The breakdown of responses in the sample of completed interviews was: 200 Feet/I Block 12 9.810 6.9% 500 Feet/2 Blocks 17 14.4% 4.9% 1000 Feet/3+ Blocks 54 45.8% 65.1% Don't Know 35 29.7% The accuracy of these subjective estimates was checked by asking the respondent to name (or at least, to describe) the adult business nearest their home. In a subset of cases, we were also able to measure the distance objectively. From these data, it is clear that people are quite aware of how near or far away they live from these businesses. We next asked respondents to assess the impact that an adult entertainment business located in their neighborhood would have on series of "social problems." Specifically: I am going to ask a series of questions concerning what the impact of an adult entertainment business has, or would have, if it were located within 500 feet of your neighborhood. Please tell me if the impact would be a substantial increase, some increase, no effect, some decrease or a substantial decrease. EVER00387