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11. The City finds that imposing minimal dress standards requiring coverage of the <br /> torso and pubic and buttocks area for barista stands and Quick Service Facilities together <br /> with a licensing plan placing the responsibility for compliance primarily on the stand <br /> owner would lessen the negative adverse impacts related to bikini barista stands; <br /> 12. The City finds that it is not the intent of the City to suppress any protected rights <br /> of expression under the United States or Washington Constitutions, but to propose and <br /> enact content neutral legislation which addresses narrowly the negative adverse impacts <br /> associated with bikini barista stands while allowing these types of businesses adequate <br /> alternative channels for communication of protected expression; <br /> 13. The City finds that a licensing mechanism is needed to place more <br /> accountability and responsibility on the owners of businesses where the illegal conduct has <br /> occurred. Criminal provisions allow owners to avoid liability by pleading ignorance and <br /> game the system by creating a paper trail purporting to prohibit conduct while in fact <br /> encouraging that conduct by looking the other way and setting revenue expectations that <br /> implicitly encourage such conduct; <br /> 14. The City finds that this Ordinance bears a substantial relation to public health, <br /> safety or welfare and promotes the best long term interests of the Everett community; and <br /> Whereas,the City Council does conclude: <br /> 1. The evidence provided is clearly reliable and demonstrates that bikini barista <br /> stands generate significant adverse secondary effects; <br /> 2. This evidence supports the conclusion that the bikini barista stand model is <br /> easily transitioned to other Quick Service Facilities type of business and, as such, it is <br /> appropriate and necessary to regulate these all the same; <br /> 3. The evidence supports the conclusion that the City has tried to regulate these <br /> businesses in a less restrictive manner which has proven unsuccessful and that imposing <br /> minimal dress requirements along with a licensing scheme placing responsibility for <br /> compliance primarily on the owner is reasonable and will both diminish the adverse <br /> secondary effects and improve the quality of living within the City; and <br /> 4. This ordinance is intended to protect Constitutional rights while addressing the <br /> adverse impacts these bikini barista stands have on the City; <br /> Now,therefore,the City of Everett does ordain: <br /> Section 1. Intent&Purpose <br /> This Ordinance is intended to protect the general public health, safety and welfare of the <br /> citizenry of the city through the regulation of Quick Service Facilities.The regulations in <br /> 3 <br />