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Consultants' Final Report - Page 43 <br />explaining that financial considerations precluded a move for any reason. <br />Attitudes on Regulation. With an exception to be noted, the public believes <br />that the City should regulate adult businesses. One hundred respondents (85.5%) <br />believe that the City should regulate the location of adult businesses. Despite the <br />apparent laissez faire implications of the minority opinion, however, only one <br />respondent (0.9%) believed that adult businesses should be allowed to operate in <br />residential neighborhoods. Though perhaps disagreeing on the nature and extent <br />of regulation then, even the most ardent opponents of regulation seem to support <br />some tvpe of regulation. <br />A series of questions designed to measure support for and/or opposition to <br />various approaches to regulation reveal a remarkable depth of support for all types <br />of regulation. Regulatory initiatives designed to protect the integrity of residential <br />life, for example, garner nearly unanimous support from every element of the community: <br />Would you support a law that prohibited the establishment of an adult <br />entertainment business within 500 feet of a residential area, school or <br />church?. <br />Strongly Support <br />92 <br />78.0% <br />78.0% <br />Support <br />13 <br />11.0% <br />11.0% <br />Neutral <br />4 <br />3.4% <br />3.4% <br />Oppose <br />6 <br />5.1% <br />5.1% <br />Strongly Oppose <br />3 <br />2.5% <br />2.5% <br />Regulatory initiatives designed to reduce the density of adult businesses, on the <br />EVER00389 <br />