Sexually oriented businesses as defined per N.J.S.A. 2C:34-6:
A commercial establishment which as one of its principal business purposes offers for sale, rental, or display any of the following:
Books, magazines, periodicals or other printed material, or photographs, films, motion pictures, video cassettes, slides or other visual representatives which depict or describe a specified sexual activity or specified anatomical area, or still or motion picture machines, projectors or other image-producing devices which show images to one person per machine at any one time, and where the images so displayed are characterized by the depiction of a specified sexual activity or specified anatomical area, or instruments, devices, or paraphernalia which are designed for use in connection with a specified sexual activity, or
A commercial establishment which regularly features live performances characterized by the exposure of a specified anatomical area or by a specified sexual activity or which regularly shows films, motion pictures, video cassettes, slides, or other photographic representations which depict or describe a specified sexual activity or specified anatomical area.
PERSONS — An individual, proprietorship, partnership, corporation, association, or other legal entity;
SPECIFIED ANATOMICAL AREA — Less than completely and opaquely covered human genitals, pubic region, buttock or female breasts below a point immediately above the top of the areola; or human male genitals in a discernibly turgid state, even if covered;
SPECIFIED SEXUAL ACTIVITY — The fondling or other erotic touching of covered or uncovered human genitals, pubic region, buttock or female breast; or any actual or simulated act of human masturbation, sexual intercourse or deviate sexual intercourse.
1. Purpose. These regulations are adopted in furtherance of all of the public purposes of municipal zoning and planning, including, but not limited to, guiding the appropriate use and development of the Township of Southampton in a manner which will promote the public health, safety, morals and general welfare, and in order to meet the needs of citizens of the Township of Southampton and of the State of New Jersey, while maintaining the quality and character of Southampton Township and deterring the growth and spread of blight and crime. It is recognized that there are some uses commonly known as "adult" uses which, because of their very nature, are recognized as having serious objectionable operational characteristics, particularly when those uses are located near residential areas or in other inappropriate locations, or without sufficient showing that those uses in a specified location will comply with the conditions and operation of those uses. Therefore, special regulations of these "adult" uses is deemed necessary to ensure that adverse effects will not contribute to the blighting or downgrading of the Township of Southampton. In no way is the fact that the Township of Southampton regulates any or all of the adult uses described herein, or prohibits or allows them in the various zoning districts, to be construed as approval of, or condoning of, those uses.
2. Lot size: 87,120 square feet minimum.
4. Front yard setback: 100 feet.
8. The building or structure of such use shall be located no closer than 1,000 feet from any residential use or district, public or private school, church, recreation facility, any other religious, institutional, or educational use, nursery, child care center, public community center, park, playground, or similar use, or any premises licensed for the sale or distribution of alcoholic beverages.
9. No such use shall be located within 1,000 feet of a similar use.
10. Maximum distance between any access driveway and any adjoining property line shall be 30 feet.
11. Maximum width of curb cuts for access driveways shall be 20 feet, except a combined entrance and exit shall total 40 feet.
12. Parking requirements shall be in accordance with all of the regulations set forth in Subsection
12-5.10, but in any event, there shall be parking spaces for not less than 10 cars. In addition to the parking standards in Subsection
12-5.10, one parking space is required for each viewing theater where this viewing area is to not exceed 10% of the total building area.
13. No materials sold or displayed within shall be visible from any window or door, or within public view.
14. All trash, refuse, articles or any matter to be disposed of shall be shredded, cut, or rendered in such a fashion so that the remains shall not be readable, legible, or discernible.
15. All areas not utilized for buildings, parking, loading, access aisles, driveways or pedestrian walkways shall be suitably landscaped with shrubs, groundcover, seeding or similar plantings and maintained in good condition.
16. The minimum buffer area shall include a densely planted buffer of evergreen trees in accordance with Subsection
12-5.2 and at least six feet high at time of planting along any common property line with a residential district.
17. In addition, paved parking areas shall provide landscaped planting strips, particularly at the ends of parking rows. Said ends of parking areas shall be surrounded by concrete curb or Belgian block curb and shall be of a size sufficient to contain a 2 1/2 inch caliper shade tree, which shall be required in each planting strip.
18. All uses must be licensed as required in the General Ordinances of the Township of Southampton.
19. Hours of operation shall not be earlier than 9:00 a.m. nor later than 12:00 midnight, prevailing time, on weekdays and Saturday and shall be closed on Sundays.