It is the purpose of this section to regulate sexually oriented businesses to promote the health, safety, morals and general welfare of the citizens, and to establish reasonable and uniform regulations to prevent the continued concentration of sexually oriented businesses within the city. The provisions of this section have neither the purpose nor effect of imposing a limitation or restriction on the content of any communicative materials, including sexually oriented materials. Similarly it is not the intent nor effect of this section to restrict or deny access by adults to sexually oriented materials protected by the First Amendment, or to deny access by the distributors and exhibitors of sexually oriented entertainment to their intended market.

It shall be unlawful to operate or cause to be operated a sexually oriented business within 1,000 feet of a church, a public or private elementary or secondary school; any residentially zoned property; a public park; or another sexually oriented business. For the purposes of measuring distances, the measurement shall be in a straight line without regard to intervening structures or objects from the nearest portion of the building or structure used as part of the premises where the sexually oriented business is conducted, to the nearest property line of the premises of a church or public or private elementary or secondary school, or to the nearest boundary of an affected public park or residential district. The distance between any two sexually oriented businesses shall be measured in a straight line without regard to intervening structures or objects, from the closest exterior wall of the structure in which each sexually oriented business is located.

All sexually oriented businesses shall comply with the City’s Sexually Oriented Business Regulations in Ordinance Number ________ [article 4.05 of the Code of Ordinances].