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Marriott Slaterville
City Zoning Code

13.32 Sexually

Oriented Businesses

13.32.010 Purpose

The purpose and objective of this Chapter is to establish reasonable and uniform regulations to prevent the concentration of Sexually-Oriented Businesses or their location in areas deleterious to the City, regulate the signage of such businesses, control the adverse effects of such signage, and prevent inappropriate exposure of the activities of such businesses to the community. This Chapter is to be construed as a regulation of time, place and manner of the operation of these businesses, consistent with the United States and Utah Constitutions.

13.32.020 Location Of Businesses - Restrictions

  1. Outcall Services shall be permitted in M-2 areas west of Interstate 15 and east of 1900 West.
  2. Sexually-Oriented Businesses, including Outcall Services, shall only be permitted in areas zoned M-2 west of Interstate 15 and east of 1900 West.
  3. Under this Chapter, subject to the following additional restrictions, no Sexually-Oriented Business shall be located:
    1. Within 1,000 feet of any school, public park, library, or church;
    2. Within 1,000 feet of any residential use or any agricultural, or open space, or residential zoning boundary;
    3. Within 1,000 feet of any other Sexually-Oriented Business, except Outcall Services.
  4. Distance requirements between structures and uses specified in this Section shall be measured in a straight line, without regard to intervening structures or zoning districts, from the property boundaries of the school, public park, religious or cultural activity, residential use, or other Sexually-Oriented Business, of from the right-of-way line of a gateway to the structure of the Sexuality-Oriented Business.
  5. Distance requirements from zoning districts for this Section shall be measured in a straight line, with regard to intervening structures or zoning district, from the closest zoning boundary of a residential or agricultural district to the Sexually-Oriented Business structure.

13.32.030 Effect On Non-Conforming Businesses

All existing legal, non-conforming Sexually-Oriented Businesses, as of the effective date of the ordinance codified in this Chapter, or any amendment hereto, shall comply with the provisions of this Chapter within one (1) year from the date this ordinance is enacted.

13.32.040 Signs

Not withstanding anything to the contrary contained in Title 13.35 of the Marriott-Slaterville City Code of Ordinances, the following more restrictive requirements for signs pertaining to Sexually-Oriented Businesses shall prevail:

  1. No more than one exterior sign shall be allowed;
  2. No sign shall be allowed to exceed 18 square feet;
  3. No animation shall be permitted on or around any sign or on the exterior walls or roof of such premises;
  4. No descriptive art or designs depicting any activity related to or inferring the nature of the business shall be allowed on any sign;
  5. Signs shall contain alphanumeric copy only;
  6. Only flat wall signs and/or awning sings shall be permitted;
  7. Painted wall advertising shall not be allowed; and
  8. Other than the signs specifically allowed by this Chapter, the Sexually-Oriented Business shall not attach, construct, or allow to be attached or constructed any temporary sign, banner, light, or other device designed to draw attention to the business location.

13.32.050 Definitions

Terms involving Sexually-Oriented Businesses which are not defined in this Chapter shall have the meanings set forth in Title 5.82.840.

13.32.060 Severability

If any one or more provision, section, subsection, sentence, clause, phrase or word of this chapter or the application thereof to any person or circumstance is found by a court of competent jurisdiction to be illegal or unconstitutional, the same is hereby declared to be severable and the balance of this chapter shall remain effective notwithstanding such illegality or unconstitutionality. The City Council hereby declares that it would have passed this chapter and each provision, section, sentence, clause, phrase, or word thereof, irrespective of the fact that any one or more provision, section, subsection, sentence, clause, phrase or word be declared illegal or unconstitutional.