Ordinance 3560-17 - Laserfiche WebLink

5. The City finds that this information about bikini barista stands is reasonably related to the regulation of bikini barista stands including Quick Service Facilities, and that this information also indicates that these establishments cause or tend to cause the same or similar adverse secondary effects; 6. The City finds that it has primarily used its lewd conduct and adult entertainment regulations and ordinances to regulate inappropriate conduct at these stands. This permitted the existence of bikini barista stands with a "bikini" constituting nothing more than pasties and a G-string. This approach, however, has resulted in a labor-intensive enforcement effort by the City,while seemingly providing little or no deterrent to the bikini baristas' continued flashing and committing acts of prostitution. Further the City has found that the stand owner/operator simply terminates any barista caught by police and replaces with another who then continues with the same conduct further frustrating reasonable enforcement efforts; 7. The City finds that where stand owners/operators require their baristas to wear more clothing than bikinis, that the negative adverse impacts associated with bikini barista stands do not exist. The City further finds that these types of stands where more clothing is required can be very successful; 8. The City finds that courts have allowed cities to rely upon the experiences of other jurisdictions and have not required each jurisdiction regulating businesses to conduct their own studies. The City has decided to also rely upon such other experiences, as recognized by the courts, because it believes it may not have the time, experience and/or resources to adequately study these issues; 9. The City finds that experience in other regions of the country shows that that "bikini" business model can easily migrate to other types of quick service businesses if the City limited the dress requirements only to coffee stands. For example in Florida in the 90s,the popularity of bikini hot dog stands lead to similar bikini type businesses when local authorities enacted dress requirements for hot dog stands. More recently, the bikini business model has been used for food trucks. These other"bikini" businesses generate the same negative secondary effects. For example, a bikini hot dog vendor in New York was arrested for prostitution; 10. The City finds that all of this evidence confirms that bikini barista stands, due to their nature, have generated: a) increases in crime; b) increases in public sexual conduct; c) increases in the opportunity for the spread of sexually transmitted diseases; d) increases in corruption of minors; and e) adverse impacts upon the aesthetics and property values of the surrounding neighborhoods and businesses; 2