Ordinance 2144-96 - Laserfiche WebLink

• 2. Adult use businesses shall be prohibited within one thousand feet of any area of the city zoned for residential purposes. Residential zones shall include the R-S, R-S-1, R-1, R-2, R- 1(A), R-2(A), R-3, R-3(L), R-4, R-5 zones and any other residential zone hereafter adopted by the city. 3. Adult use business shall be prohibited within one thousand feet of any church, synagogue, mosque, or temple. For purposes of this section, land uses for which the principal use is not a church, synagogue, mosque, or temple but which include such a use as an accessory or incidental use to the principal use, such as a chapel within a hospital, a social service facility which provides religious services such as the Everett Gospel Mission, or other similar arrangement, shall not be deemed to be a church, synagogue, mosque, or temple. 4. Adult use businesses shall be prohibited within one thousand feet of any public or private school offering general education for students between the years kindergarten through 12th grade. For purposes of this section, athletic training facilities such as gymnastics,judo, karate, and dance and similar uses shall not be deemed to be a school. 5. Adult use businesses shall be prohibited within one thousand feet of any public park or playground operated by the City. For purposes of this section, bike paths, trails, waterways and boat launches shall not be deemed to be a public park. 6. Adult use businesses shall be prohibited within one thousand feet of any designated community development block grant neighborhood. 7. Adult use businesses shall be prohibited from locating within five hundred feet of any other adult use business. 8. Adult use businesses shall be prohibited from locating within five hundred feet of any existing establishment selling alcoholic beverages for consumption on premises. 9. Distances provided for herein shall be measured by following a straight line, without regard to intervening buildings, from the nearest point of the property parcel upon which the proposed adult use business is or is to be located,to the nearest point of the parcel of property or the zoning district boundary line from which the proposed adult use business is or is to be separated. 10. Nothing within locational requirements set forth in this chapter shall preclude an adult use business from conducting more than one adult use activity within a single structure provided the adult use business shall comply with provisions of this title and all other city ordinances. 11. In the event an adult use business is legally established in accordance with the requirements of this title and does not constitute a nonconforming use as defined in subsection B of this section, and a sensitive land use described in subdivisions 2 through 6 of this subsection locates within the required separation distance,the zoning conformity of the legally established adults use shall not be affected. Section 12. Section 1.050.0 of Ordinance#1671-89 (EMC 19.01.050.C), as amended, which reads: C. Commercial Zones. The purpose of the commercial zones is to provide for a variety of retail, office, service and mixed use activities to serve the consumer needs of Everett and surrounding areas and to establish development standards which assure high quality site and building design and compatibility with surrounding land uses. 13