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3 <br /> 5. The City finds that this information about bikini barista stands is reasonably related to <br /> the regulation,of bikini barista stands including Quick Service Facilities, and that this <br /> information also indicates that these establishments cause or tend to cause the same or similar <br /> adverse secondary effects; <br /> 6. The City finds that it has primarily used its lewd conduct and adult entertainment <br /> regulations and ordinances to regulate inappropriate conduct at these stands.This permitted the <br /> existence of bikini barista stands with a"bikini" constituting nothing more than pasties and a G- <br /> string.This approach,however,has resulted in a labor intensive enforcement effort by the City, <br /> while seemingly providing little or no deterrent to the bikini baristas' continued flashing and <br /> committing acts of prostitution. Further the City has found that the stand owner/operator simply <br /> terminates any barista caught by police and replaces with another who then continues with the <br /> same conduct further frustrating reasonable enforcement efforts; <br /> 7. The City finds that where stand owners/operators require their baristas to wear more <br /> clothing than bikinis,that the negative adverse impacts associated with bikini barista stands do <br /> not exist.The.City further finds that these types of stands where more clothing is required can be <br /> very successful; <br /> 8. The City finds that courts have allowed cities to rely upon the experiences of other <br /> jurisdictions and have not required each jurisdiction regulating businesses to conduct their own <br /> studies.The City has decided to also rely upon such other experiences,as recognized by the <br /> courts,because it believes it may not have the time, experience and/or resources to adequately <br /> study these issues; <br /> 9. The City finds that experience in other regions of the country shows that that"bikini" <br /> business model can easily migrate to other types of quick service businesses if the City limited <br /> the dress requirements only to coffee stands. For example in Florida in the 90s,the popularity of <br /> bikini hot dog stands lead to similar bikini type businesses when local authorities enacted dress <br /> requirements for hot dog stands. More recently,the bikini business model has been used for <br /> food trucks. These other"bikini"businesses generate the same negative secondary effects. For <br /> example,a bikini hot dog vendor in New York was arrested for prostitution; <br /> 9. The City finds that all of this evidence confirms that bikini barista stands, due to their <br /> nature,have generated: a) increases in crime;b) increases in public sexual conduct; c) increases <br /> in the opportunity for the spread of sexually transmitted diseases; d) increases in corruption of <br /> minors; and e) adverse impacts upon the aesthetics and property values of the surrounding <br /> neighborhoods and businesses; <br /> 10. The City finds that imposing minimal dress standards requiring coverage of the torso <br /> and pubic and buttocks area for barista stands and Quick Service Facilities together with a <br /> licensing plan placing the responsibility for compliance primarily on the stand owner would <br /> lessen the negative adverse impacts related to bikini barista stands; <br /> 92 <br />